Clematis

Nice looking trellis. I like the way it sort of cuddles the clematis. I'd show you a pic of my new arbor, but my camera's having a hissy fit. (Could be the batteries.)

My mom had a purple clematis and had a trellis made of rebar. She is gone now, I have the trellis behind a climbing rose. I have a wild or "kitchen" clematis, and it is taking over everything. We have just gotten Menard stores. Oh, and I have red honeysuckle on a wire trellis and the wild or Japanese honeysuckly growing all over a fence. I also have been known to put up lattice for climbers.

I don't know what it says about me, but when I opened this discussion and the first word I landed on was Clematis, I thought you were getting ready to talk about some venereal disease.

I use a decent weight string for my morning glories to climb my rain gutter. For my climbing roses I cut strips of an old tee shirt and tie them to the canes to the fence it's next to.

I don't have climbing flowers but last year I planted some runner beans and boy, did they RUN! I had a 5' trellis meant for tomatoes but they climbed that then hung over almost to the ground. They also wrapped around my corn. I'm planting bush beans this year!

When I had my 32 rose bushes I use to use the extra ties I always had available to tie them to the trellis. I always lightly tied them so that they had room to continue to grow.

That is a good deal. Glad you got you one. I don't have any climbing plants like that. I did get my flower bulbs in this year and they will bloom and come back next year too. I am excited about that.

hi grandpa bob oh my you reminded me of my moms rosess on trellises in front of our farm house. they were small b looms dark red but so m any of them and oh the perfume we had a screened in porch benind that trellis and in the summer we had the windows up and ate out there with the scent of roses. ah floribunda knew I would remember it. they grow clematis here too but it does not do so good but crape myrtle they are small trees but so pretty , soon it will be time for our Jacaranda trees in front of Gold Crest to bloom in a blue violet haze with tiny little purple bells they smell a lot like honey lol loll

I have a jasmine vine, the sweet smelling kind. For years I have meant to do something better for it besides the normal recycled strings. I hope this year I´ll do it. Your trellis is wonderful. That´s exactly what I need.

I had some clematis growing in one house I lived in. They weren't mine, they were left by a previous occupant. I noticed that they are self limiting, that is they grow on the available space then stop. If you give them more or less space, they adapt accordingly.