A wooden trellis isn’t just something you can use as a fencing product. It has a vast range of uses all over the home and garden. Trellis panels are very versatile and are great for decoration just as much as they are good for putting up small divider fences around your green space.
The crossing slats featured in a wooden trellis provide support for many climbing plants whilst adding something of a decorative touch to your landscape. They can be made from wood, bamboo and metal. They have a longstanding history in the gardens of many up and down the country. If you are redesigning your garden or are adding new features to it, it is well worth considering how a trellis can add further depth to your garden’s architecture and make it that little bit interesting.
Using a trellis doesn’t require much DIY knowhow or creative spark, and there are plenty of places online where you can draw inspiration. Out of all the different uses for a garden trellis, here are some of our favourites. If you’re interested in adding some trellis panels to your garden, why not try the wooden trellis’s here?
For Supporting Climbing Plants
This is the basic and most common use for installing a trellis in the garden – for supporting climbing plants such as vines. Climbing plants will grow onto the trellis and use its many holes and slats for support as these encourage it to grow upwards instead of along the ground. Trellises which are specially designed for plant support come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from rectangular ones to fan shaped ones, and typically start off narrower at the bottom so that the plant will begin to grow up it.
It doesn’t take very long for your plants to begin growing up them. If you have a lot of climbing plants – especially vines – you will soon have a beautiful addition to your garden in the summer which, if you create a trellis enclosure, will provide a bit of shelter in your garden and become the perfect place to host gatherings and BBQs.
As a Privacy Screen
A large enough trellis with relatively small slats in it can be the perfect privacy screen solution, and there are many ways you can go about adding the privacy element to the slats. First of all, a climbing vine plant which has been growing on the trellis for long enough will fill in the gaps with enough vegetation to hide whatever is behind it.
You can cleverly position your trellis in your garden to hide certain parts of it from prying eyes. Got a nosey neighbour? Simply position the trellis in a place where it will shield their view from whatever windows you find them staring out of. It’s a great way to block off seating areas in your garden, especially if you add a “roof” part to the trellis and stop people from looking at what you are doing.
You don’t have to use plants, though. Depending on what materials you can find and how handy you are, you could quite easily make a literal screen out of one.
Borders
If you have a particularly large garden and want to break up the space without adding in a tonne of fencing. A trellis structure is your ideal solution. You can easily use a wooden or metal trellis to separate sections of your garden off and then start growing climbing plants up them to make the border more defined and interesting.
A common way that people create a border with a trellis is to install a very small traditional fence and then add the trellis on top. This makes for an interesting design which keeps smaller pests and rodents such as rats and mice out. Ideal if you are using a trellis structure to border off a flowerbed or area where you grow fruit and vegetables. The only limit, really, to making a border with a trellis, is your own imagination.
The trellis is a garden design staple up and down the country. It’s earned its place by being an infinitely useful and interesting piece of garden furniture which can be used for a variety of different things. Whilst the most useful aspect of a garden trellis is to use it as a support for climbing plants, you can apply this use in many ways.
Whether you want to make a simple centrepiece in your garden or completely block off and separate different areas. Using a trellis is a much nicer looking alternative to panelling and full fences which can be hard on the eye and look out of place.
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