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The Many Uses for a Garden Trellis

I grew up watching two of the most talented gardeners I have ever known; my grandmothers.  Back in their day they were both members of their respective local garden clubs.  I don’t know much about garden clubs today but they seemed to be a very big deal back then.  These two ladies had totally different personalities and didn’t seem to like each other much, but they loved their respective gardens and they knew how to use a garden trellis.

While one of my grandmothers grew prize roses, the other grandmother seemed to grow everything else but roses.  However, each used garden trellises throughout their vegetable gardens, rose garden, and along walls of English Ivy and other climbing varieties as well as for tomatoes and cucumbers.  Of course, back then there weren’t any fancy vinyl or wrought iron trellises.  They were made of cedar and came in all kinds of shapes and sizes.  If either was alive today, I believe they would rather have something natural in their gardens than man made.  That was what was normal to them and still is to me.  I love natural cedar garden trellises for everything I plant that either requires or likes something to climb.