The following guest article is full of tips for selecting the best climbing plants for garden structures. It not only describes the correct climbing plants (like clematis, wisteria,and climbing roses) for a trellis, arbors, and a pergola – it also teaches how to train them to climb these garden structures.

How to Match Your Climbing Plants to Your Structures

 

Picking A Structure For Your Plants to Climb

Now, let’s begin with your structure. On the one hand, you can stop by the nursery and grab a three foot high wire trellis for very little money. On the other hand, you can build (or have someone build) a 10 x 15 foot pergola, with a lot more time and money involved. Then there’s everything inbetween (and, of course, you have to be thinking about what you’re going to grow on these things).

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