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Metal trellis?
Steve the Gardening Vet
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Anyone any ideas where i might find a decent, pretty metal trellis to attach to a fence? Downside is that I want it wide enough to attach between two concrete fence posts...
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Do you know any good welders Steve? Maybe there are some amongst your customers who could do you a custom made one.
In the sticks near Peterborough
That seems to be my only solution, google isn't being very helpful!
If you found a welder it might even be cheaper than off the shelf and to your spec
In the sticks near Peterborough
If it's going to be covered in plants it doesn't need to be pretty but needs to be strong and functional. In my experience, pretty is expensive.
I have used the metal grid used by builders for reinforcing concrete. It comes in two or three sizes of gap and is very cheap. We've attached ours to wooden posts to separate our garden from the field behind but still give us a view as it is so transparent. Depending on what I grow in that bed each year it can be used to support annual pumpkins so they ripen in the sun or sweet peas or tall sunflowers. It also supports a blackberry and a tayberry.
You could always spray it with hammerite to pretty up but I find the rust colour disappears into the plants.
More likely a builders' merchant. That's where we got ours. You'll also need a pair of metal wire cutters to trim it to size. I find it has endless uses - one offcut keeps the dogs in the garden as an almost invisible gate in an archway. Another has been spread and tied over an archway to help a clematis Etoile Violette climb more easily.
Steve J - B&Q up here in Scotland have nice decorative metal trellis sections and I'm assuming they will be available in any B&Q. Have a look online. Otherwise, I don't know if you have a local Gumtree website where people in the local area sell things. Up here there seems to be loads of people selling decorative trellis sections when doing house clearing etc so you might find something really cheaply if you seek these websites out. House clearing demolition and builders yards quite often have some of these things lying around and sometimes just want them taken away.
You'll need strength to support armandii.
In the sticks near Peterborough
It has been on a wooden trellis for ages as it shins over the fence and into our neighbour's pyracanthus!
The wooden trellis was fine until a small incident at the weekend involving the replacement of the fence. Panel behind it was removed easily but the 12" concrete gravel board we were putting in had something to say about the trellis' continued existence...