Arbors and Trellises
Wild roses cascade over a trellis dividing our yard from our neighbors.
We have several arbors and trellises in our garden. There is the one in the photo above, for one. There is also a rose trellis on the other side of the garden, running the length of the house, separating us from another neighbor. The goal here is to provide privacy AND have greenery, scent, color and beauty. We also have the “path to nowhere” which leads under a free standing arbor. And along the entire width of the back of the house is an attached arbor that is covered with Confederate Jasmine. The entire carport (well… two side) has walls of trellis with jessamine and crossvine. And both ends of the front porch have wide spaced trellis, one side covered in moon flowers. Can you tell we like arbors and trellises?
This was the large rose trellis before we covered it with bourbon roses and jessamine.
This trellis in now covered with moon flowers.
A trellis is a great place for "hidden" art.
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We have a small city garden and are in the process of putting a new side porch on our house. Our old porch had vines growing all over it–a large climbing hydrangea graced the front steps. But we are taking the old porch off, and replacing it. I love the classic design of your porch with the strong horizontal and vertical lines on the trellis. Did you have a carpenter build it for you? Are you located in the East End? We are avid gardeners and my husband is a painter. What an artistic pleasure your garden is.
Janice
Hi Janice, We live in Ardmore and we did our trellises ourselves. Pretty simple really: weather treated 1x2s. The only tools you’ll need are a handsaw, screws and a screwdriver, a tape measure and a level. Only the tops and bottoms of the trellis on the porch are actually attached (look closely at the right side). We have little dragonfly lights (string lights) on the trellis now. You can’t really see them in the day, but they’re really pretty at night. We didn’t paint ours, but that’s up to you. Let us know how it turns out.
Thanks for sharing the pictures and the design of your porch trellis. We are finalizing the porch and trellis plans and hope to get it built early spring so plants will have time to reestablish themselves. Our garden is a english style garden that fills our tiny little yard. We really enjoy playing in it, and my husband is a fine artist and has done several wonderful garden paintings. You can find him at http://www.stephenhankin.com