What is a Trellis?
If you favor climbing flowers in your yard or park, you’ll be looking for a trellis to help support these plants. A trellis is considered garden hardscape, something that doesn’t move when set in place, as opposed to the changing nature of the actual plants that you place in a garden or a park. Unlike the arbor, which usually is composed of two or more lengths of latticed wood or other materials connected by a horizontal top piece, the trellis is a flat collection of vertical pieces that normally have lattice pieces perpendicular to the vertical slats. You can find trellises in traditional, unfinished wood which can complement your garden nicely. Others may be painted white, and yet others are made of metal or plastic in a variety of colors and sizes. The trellis usually needs back support and may lean against or be nailed to a supporting wall like that belonging to a house or a fence. Length and width of these support structures vary. Those attached to houses can run from the outside
A trellis is a structure, usually made from interwoven pieces of wood, bamboo or metal that supports many types of climbing plants, such as sweet peas, grapevines and ivy. A trellis usually sits against a wall as a single, flat, latticed surface like an extension of a fence. Gardeners use trellises to add height to a wall, enhance privacy, or to separate different parts of a garden. It is also supports vines that could not otherwise grow upright on their own. A trellis looks like a decorative fence with a few aligned posts joined with latticework or other cross pieces. It can attach to an existing structure or can be independently mounted with a poured cement base. Trellises made of wood, such as teak or cedar, will naturally weather and look more organically integrated with the rest of your landscape. For those wanting a more colorful finish, polyvinyl and metal offer another possible material. Although a trellis can take the place of a wall, hedge, fence, or tree, most people choose
