Why Should You Trellis
When starting or maintaining your home garden, there are so many options that are placed before the modern gardener. The ever growing world of gardening presents so many different styles and options that you might feel a little bit lost at what to use in your garden. So why not keep it simple? Garden trellising is one of the best ways to add another dimension to your garden. The structure of a trellis creates a vertical dynamic that provides a number of different additions to your outdoor space. So here are just a few of the reasons you should plan on adding a trellis to your garden.
Vertical Gardening:
As you’ll see throughout these different ways to use your trellis, the most important facet of gardening with a trellis is the vertical element added to your garden. Trellising and vertical gardening are re-taking the gardening world by storm, as they combine timeless elements of gardening style with so many different modern twists. To best take advantage of everything that a trellis offers, remember that a trellis is at heart a way to add another dimension to your garden, supporting climbing plants that want to take your garden to new heights.
Trellising for Privacy:
One of the most popular ways to use trellising in the home and garden is as a privacy screen. When arrayed in multiples in your garden, trellises serve as the perfect support system for a green fence. Not only will your trellis look beautiful as a one of a kind piece in the garden, but it will support fantastic plants and flowers. Choose from a wide variety of greenery to train up your trellis, and watch as these plants and vines fill out to create a screen that protects the privacy of your home and garden.
Trellising for Shade:
Is there way too much sun in your garden? What if your plants are suffering from too much of a good thing, how do you keep them from being constantly exposed to harsh sunlight. When filled out with climbing plants, trellises can protect your other plants from the hot sun they may not be particularly fond of throughout the entirety of the day. Cool off your garden with the vertical element of trellising.
Keeping Your Garden Healthy:
While most of your plants might be healthy enough if they are left to sprawl along the ground, trellising can keep your plants from being more vulnerable to disease or bugs as they spread out on the ground. Plant these climbing or sprawling plants at the base of your trellis, and train the vines to grow up the trellis by attaching the smaller vines to the lower rungs of the trellis. Make the most of these climbing plants, flowers, fruits, or vegetables by keeping them healthy throughout the growing season.
Trellising can keep your plants from being more vulnerable to disease or bugs.
Make the Most of Your Space:
While some of us may have larger areas in which to have a widespread garden throughout the backyard, dealing with a lack of space may create a need for plant trellising. Make the most of your limited horizontal space, by creating a vertical space for your garden to grow into. As these plants grow upwards, you will only save space and have more room for growing other plants that might add a pop to your home garden. Remember that if you are looking to create a trellising effect, choose the plants that are most conducive to growing upwards on the trellis.
Keep Track of Your Garden:
If you are using your garden for fruits, vegetables, or just for flowering plants, trellises are the perfect way to show off your beautiful blooms or to watch as your fruit and vegetables get closer to ripe. Suddenly your plants have become the visual focal point of your garden like you never knew they could. And as the late summer rolls around, picking fruits and vegetables has never been easier, no need for bending over to pick every fruit from the garden, or searching under overgrown ground dwellers, the structure of your trellis will place the fruits of your labor right in front of you for easy pickings.
While trellising might not fit in everyone’s garden, we here are H Potter believe that there is space in almost every garden for a garden trellis. So as you start looking for ways to improve your garden, consider adding a trellis for one of the many reasons listed here (or not listed here). Happy Gardening!