On 22 Mar 2004 09:48:55 -0800, (Koen) wrote:

Hi,

I bought some vines to cover a wall on our house. Then I went shopping
for trellis at my local home improvement store (Lowe's , HomeDepot).
Unfortunately what they have is either very expensive and ornamental,
or some junk pieces of wood stapled together. Also tried a few
nurseries/garden stores, but their collection wasn't that great
either.

Any suggestions where I can go for a nice, simple trellis? Maybe I
should just build one myself?


thanks,

- Koen.
well it depends on what you really want last time I wanted a trellis
I just went to home depo.
I had them cut a custom size of latis an d I put some 2/2's
on the wall I wanted it on and just screwed the latis to it
Latis is cheap can be attractive and makes a natural climbing blace
for a good number of vines and climbers I use this method to hold up
cucumbers and squash too with velcro tape by 3M
but back to plants
the latis is cheap comes in various styles and materials can be cut
and shaped quite easily and is easy to clean if you get the vynal or
plastic kind and it can hide an ugly wall nicely
depending on the plant you train on it you might want to give more
room on the back side for the plant to have space where it grows on
the other side.
a little work at first but you can make it look nice and you can make
it look pretty professional with a little advice from some one who
works in that department My mother trains roses on it t
It looks very nice and she has very nice garden of it she has
garden statues between the beices of latis .
well now that yu've read my book. :-) ...
I hope it helps you
michelle