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Horizontal Trellis Growth
danny_ryan95
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Hi guys,
Neighbours built a pretty ugly wall between our drives and we originally hid it with some planters but the wall is still peaking out above it. Their wall only extends the drive so people can step from through our gardens by the front door still where there's about a metre gap.
In the metre gap we have some plants. I've been thinking of installing a trellis that prevents people using our garden as an entrance to theirs (think typical new build design). But I was also thinking what if I extend the trellis along the drive. I'm far from an expert gardener, but are there any plants that will succeed in growing away from the soil horizontally, so they'd end up being above no soil?
Thanks in advance!
Neighbours built a pretty ugly wall between our drives and we originally hid it with some planters but the wall is still peaking out above it. Their wall only extends the drive so people can step from through our gardens by the front door still where there's about a metre gap.
In the metre gap we have some plants. I've been thinking of installing a trellis that prevents people using our garden as an entrance to theirs (think typical new build design). But I was also thinking what if I extend the trellis along the drive. I'm far from an expert gardener, but are there any plants that will succeed in growing away from the soil horizontally, so they'd end up being above no soil?
Thanks in advance!
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You can certainly have plants trained horizontally on trellis. If you want to attach the trellis to the wall, you'd need permission as it isn't yours.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
So the trellis would initially cover the bit where the wall ends up to the house and I'd attach it to the house. It'd act as a privacy screen between us and next door up to a height of probably 2m. I'd then drop the height to maybe a metre and try and grow upwards towards the road. Soil depth is only around 20-30cm.
You could certainly attach a piece to your wall, but not the other wall. You'd need to put posts in, unless they're happy to let you fix some to it.
The soil's shallow, and probably won't be very hospitable, so your choices will be far more limited unless you were to build a raised bed or similar. You'd have to dig down and see what it's like.
Some of the small, early clematis - alpinas etc, don't mind poorer soil and drier conditions, because it will be dry and poor there. They would still need some help to get established well- ie organic matter added.
The other alternative would be something like Cotoneaster.
You probably wouldn't have anything going the full length of the site though.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Whether or not you then try and grow a clmber across it is up to your soil conditions, aspect and local climate as all of those will affect what will thrive, struggle or die.