Garden Trellis Ideas

When you have visitors at your place, the first thing that they notice is your garden. Improve the look of your beautiful garden by using a garden trellis. It is mainly a design meant for outdoor purposes, made up of either wood or cast iron. Wrought iron trellis are also a popular choice in many gardens. They are used to decorate your garden, and to make it stand out from the rest. It gives your garden a unique and tranquil look. Garden trellis are also used to act as a support to the climbing plants such as morning glories, clematis, honeysuckle, etc. Even those who do not have a garden at their place, can use trellis to decorate their rooftop garden.

Trellis Designs

Garden trellises may come in various shapes and designs. Some common designs are listed below:

• Moon-arch Trellis
• Garden Arbor Trellis
• Cedar Trellis Screens
• Copper Top Pyramid Trellis

Some can be tall and skinny while some can be short but wide enough for a person to go underneath them. Besides these, there are also square shaped trellis that comes in various sizes. Some unique shaped trellis, are the simple 'V' structured or the diamond shaped trellis. While setting up your trellis, you can use your own creativity to design your own trellis.

Pole Style Trellis
Just plant a pole in your garden, so that your climbing plant has something to support itself on. You could decorate the top of the pole to make it even more impressive. You can also place 3 or 4 identical looking trellises against the wall, in a way which will make it look like a peacock spreading its tail feathers. You can allow varieties of plants to grow on it.

Grape Trellis
As the name suggests, this trellis is used to support the grape vines which you are growing in your garden. Using a grape trellis lets you grow more grapes in a small space, hence, if you are a seller of grapes, your yield increases. By using a grape trellis, harvesting the ripe grapes becomes less hectic. But make sure you pick up the grapes easily without disturbing the main stem.

Wooden Trellis
These can be installed with a relaxing seat or bench where you can sit and read or do as you please amidst the green climbing plants. You can also use this trellis to support a climbing tree with edible fruits, maybe like a tomato tree. Nothing like relaxing on the trellis seat, reading, and picking up a fruit in an instant.

Trellis Used as a Divider
You can also use trellis to separate the various sections in your garden, maybe the kitchen garden from the flower garden and so on. If done in a creative way, it will go a long way in enhancing the look of your property.

Homemade Trellis

You can also make your own homemade trellises, using your imagination and making use of all the unnecessary items lying around your house.

• Recycled products - do you have an old ladder at home, just lying around in a clutter? Well, put this ladder in your garden and your climbers can use this for a support. Climbing plants will just wrap themselves around anything, even a ladder. Also, instead of a ladder, you can also make use of old furniture as trellis.
• You can also put up three poles in the shape of a tepee, tie it up securely, and there you have your very own tepee trellis.
• If the French Open or the Wimbledon fever has grabbed you, then you can even use an old tennis racket as trellis. Just plant it in a smaller pot and let the vines grow around it.

These homemade trellis will not only save your money, but they will also help you to get rid of the old furniture and other stuff that you have meant to be throwing away, but never got around to doing.

Using these garden trellis ideas, you can make your own homemade trellis, have various designs adorning your garden and make your neighbors green with envy.