How to Cover Your Trellis With Flowers

Your Structure

Now, let's start with the structure. If you like you can stop by the nursery and buy a three foot high wire trellis for very little money. Or, if you like, you can build (or have someone build) a 10 x 15 foot Pergola, with a lot more time and money involved. Then there's everything in-between (and, of course, you have to be thinking about which plants will fit which structures.)

A trellis is simply a two dimensional frame that will need to be supported. The support can be either stakes, wall supports, or posts. An Arbor is an arch with enough room to walk under and it might be 2 to 3 feet deep. That pergola might be built with 6x8 posts, 2x10 joists, and be held together with heavy bolts. You can have your dinner party under one. Halfway between these two are deep arbors with seating. Imagine sitting beneath an arbor or pergola that's densely covered with fragrant roses. .

Picking the Right Plants

Now you have to pick something to grow onto your structure,