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Landscape Structures Provide Function and Beauty

By Melinda Myers climbing roses or an espaliered fruit tree.
Incorporate arbors, trellises and other Provide space between the wall and trellis when
structures into your designs when planning mounting them to a building. The space reduces
new or updating existing gardens and the risk of damage to the wall and the plants
landscapes. These structures help form the benefit from the added airflow and light.
framework of any garden, add year-round Many trellises are works of art in their own
interest and provide years of beauty and right, so when the plants go dormant the
function. structure continues to dress up an otherwise
Utilize arbors to define and connect distinct blank wall. Whether you prefer simple squares
areas of the landscape. Invite visitors into your and diamonds, circles, leaves or ceramic
landscape with a vine-covered arbor. Guests songbirds perched among the branchlike
won’t be able to resist the invitation to enter supports of the Enchanted Woods Trellis; select a
and experience the beauty that lies beyond. design that reflects your personality and
Cover these structures with vines for seasonal complements your garden design.
interest, additional texture and blossoms. Combine several trellis sections to create a
Combine two different vines to extend or decorative screen or bit of fencing. This is a
double your floral display. Plant an annual perfect solution for creating privacy or a bit of
vine for quick cover with a perennial that takes vertical interest in any size or shape of garden
a year or more to establish and cover the space. Add colorful glass bottles and
structure. contemporary design to a vertical planting with
Beat summer’s heat by creating your own a trellis like Gardener’s Achla Designs Vinifera
shade with vine-covered arbors. Plant annual Bottle Trellis.
or deciduous vines that let the sun and its Use obelisks as focal points and plant supports
warmth shine through during the cooler in the garden or containers. They’re perfect for
months. When the leaves return, they provide creating scale in the garden, especially when new
shade and cooler temperatures during warmer plantings are small and immature. Select a
times. support tall and sturdy enough for the plants you
Arbors are as much at home in the food are growing.
garden as the flowerbed. Connect two garden Add a bit of beauty and elegance when
beds with an over-the-top arbor. Grow pole growing watermelons, cucumbers, pole beans or
beans, melons or squash up and over the Titan tomatoes. Train them onto decorative obelisks
Squash Tunnel (gardeners.com). You’ll expand and they’ll be pretty enough to include in
your gardening space by going vertical and flowerbeds and mixed borders. Add more beauty landscape. Team them up with plants Garden Moment TV & radio
help reduce disease problems by increasing the and a bit of hummingbird appeal with scarlet suited to your growing conditions and segments. Myers is a
sunlight and airflow reaching the plants. Secure runner beans. The bright red flowers are you will benefit from years of columnist and contributing
large fruit to its obelisk with a net, cotton or followed by green beans that can be eaten fresh enjoyment. editor for Birds &
macram© sling to prevent them from breaking or its large seeds harvested and used fresh or Melinda Myers has written more Blooms magazine and was
off the vines. dried. than 20 gardening books, commissioned by Gardeners
Dress up any home, garage or shed with Always consider the function, strength and including Small Space Gardening. She Supply for her expertise to
trellises covered with flowering vines, beauty when selecting structures for your hosts The Great Courses How to Grow write this article. Her web site
Anything DVD series and the Melinda’s is www.MelindaMyers.com.

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