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Finding space for, and in, a garden for new plants can be tricky. This easy DIY trellis can help by building up, creating a welcoming home for climbing plants.
Vertical gardening is an elevated name for a useful garden-design technique. Just as you can add color and interest to your home by painting your walls a bright color and hanging art on them, you ...
Patio umbrellas are fantastic for backyard tables, but have a limited life. Instead of tossing a tattered old umbrella, make ...
Arbors and pergolas are both arches, but an arch can also be smaller, and can be a freestanding structure in a garden as well. You can purchase trellises of all sorts, of course, but they're also ...
Trellises are the easiest way to expand your garden, whether you're growing ornamentals or edibles. In the Northwest, trellising tomatoes, cucumbers and other plants makes them less susceptible to ...
In tiny gardens, trellises almost have to be part of the garden plan. Even a window box has room for a little trellis and would look wonderful with annual vines twining up it.
Craft handmade wood trellis ideas and build a multi-purpose garden trellis that serves as a sitting bench and a drying clothesline. Practical Projects for Self-Sufficiency (Cold Springs Press ...
If you're building a fence without the trellis, consider using 4 x 4 posts rather than 6 x 6s. Begin by preparing concrete footings and post brackets as described in the trellis section.
Designs from Teresa England and her husband, Jim, will add beauty to your garden – and the Englands will even set up the pieces for you.
Trellises are essential to your garden layout to create height and divide spaces; a trellis takes a garden from flat to immersive. Once those trellises are up, finding the right plants to cover ...
Roxann Van Wyk has been creating garden trellises and arbors out of copper for 20 years. “It took me several months of cutting and soldering by hand,” she said. “It was difficult.” ...
Space-strapped gardeners learned long ago how to make more room for vegetables: Grow up. Ingenious trellises and stacked garden beds can squeeze more food out of less space. Almost anything that ...