Some plants just don’t belong on the ground, and you don’t necessarily want them climbing the walls of your house, either. Still, you need an organized look for those climbing plants, not a random set of posts for them to crawl. You may have overlooked the very obvious solution of using a garden trellis to tame your climbing plants and ivy into an attractive, manageable design. Whether angled or standing straight up, garden trellises can really make your crawling plants stand out aesthetically so that you can be proud of your overall garden design.
A garden trellis can be installed just about anywhere, even flat to the ground if you so desire. You can use them to hang plants from, or you can organize your climbing and wandering plants with these devices. Most trellises have a basket weave appearance, through which you would feed your vines in a weave pattern, facing the direction you wish them to grow. They make great tools for forcing a certain pattern within your garden, forcing plants to grow in the way you desire rather than wildly. You can actually affect a design with trellises.
In many cases, people opt for cedar trellises because of their great natural look, as well as their overall durability. Cedar is the perfect material for outdoor use because it is weather resistant and will last for years. You can paint it, stain it, or leave it untreated, giving you great flexibility of design so that you can work it into any previous garden décor that you’ve already worked with.
A trellis can be located almost anywhere, including attached to the side of your house so that you can have vines climbing the walls in an organized fashion, off the patio so that you can display flowering vines in front of your home, or even from garden benches and other items throughout the lawn and garden. You can even choose to have trellises flat to the ground, simply keeping an order to the growth of your vines so they don’t tangle and intertwine too much.
As you work out your garden décor, you’ll find a number of uses for garden trellises of all sizes, and you’ll begin to plan for them throughout your yard. There are few items that can organize typically rowdy and radically growing plants than to feed them through a cedar trellis and let it work with gravity and the laws of science to keep your garden growing straight and beautiful.
