If you plan on growing any climbing, creeping plants – whether it’s the heavy-duty creeping roses, wisterias or grape vines, medium-sized Virginia creeper or the just the delicate morning glories – all will need a structure to hang on to, something to appropriately support their growth.
That “something” is the garden trellis.
It offers supports for beautiful flowering or fruiting vines ( such as rose or cucumber trellis ), adds more growing area for small gardens
and in raised beds, and helps to create attractive outdoor spaces such as arches, tunnels, gates, privacy screens, and beautiful walls and fences.
There are many shapes and sizes of garden trellises. They can differ drastically in their design, material, and the ease of construction. Tall, gate and tunnel-like trellises are called arbors and pergolas.
These trellises are easy to make from readily available materials or are affordable to buy. Among them, there are many simple DIY designs that were used in gardens for centuries.
Let’s explore the basic trellis designs, ancestors of all other modern trellises!
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