On 28/1/08 15:44, in article
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Sorry for butting in but .... 6ft?! Your trellis is hanged on a fence
6ft off the ground?! You need to bring your trellis to 1ft from the
ground and put another to fix above and another above this I'd
imagine.

I think this is just my general lack of knowledge about this sort of
thing.
The trellis I envisioned using is about a foot wide and as long as you
like.
I was just going to nail this to the top of the 6ft fence making the
top of
the trellis about 7ft from the ground and I thought I would be able to
grow
a plant just in the trellis and not have it grow too much down the
fence.
I think I see what you mean though, I have to "train" the plant up
something
(a cane) and then presumably guide it along the trellis a it grows?

I would prefer evergreen and it musn't shed leaves onto my neighbours
land.
The fence runs North-South.

All this is possible but you do need to be aware of windage and only you can
know how much of this your garden suffers. If it's a very windy garden,
that trellis could be blown straight off. There may also be bye-laws or
residents' laws or somesuch that prohibit going above 6', so it would be
worth checking your deeds.


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