Growing montana against a brick wall

We have a wall about 25' high at the bottom of your garden and I am thinking of growing a montana up it.
The garden's too small to have one anywhere else and it seems such a waste of all that wall!
But, I don't know what would be best to support it? Buying plastic trellis for the whole area would be expensive. I could get it a bit at a time as it grew, but getting up to the higher sections would be a hassle so I'd rather do it all in one go.
Would a load of nails with some kind of string that wouldn't rot strung between them work do you think?

 

Hello daisybelle,thats some size wall you have to cover, whatever you are going to have going up it I would suggest non rusting wire strung across held by eyes drilled into the wall.
I think you would be able to get these from a fencing material supplier the wire at least.
Good Luck let us know how you get on.

 

try this if you don't fancy using metal wires. I've used it in a couple of places around the garden and its very easy to use/cut etc.

http://www.gripplegarden.com/index.php?lang=uk

 

Ah, so loads of vineyes and wire. Is the gripple stuff the wire, of just the things to hold it in place at the end?

 

Hi, the gripple is the thing that holds it all together but they have also made the black plastic wire to fit it. It is really easy to cut and doesn't seem to degenerate in the weather although i've only had mine in place about 18 months.
I looked at using tension steel wire but that comes with the added problem of trying to cut it etc whereas the plastic stuff cuts using a pair of secateurs. the gripple part can also be used to join 2 lengths of the wire together if you need to. also, if the wire begins to sag, it can be retensioned by pulling it further through the gripple.

I think its great stuff, although i'm probably biased, it was invented and made by a Sheffield company. The gripple was actually designed to tension steel wires for fencing,crash barriers etc but has been developed into a trellising system for us gardeners.

you can buy it on line direct from the site but if you have any problems, let me know, my local garden centre stocks it. also, if your passing through Sheffield,(i'm at the south side) feel free to contact me if you want to see what it looks like etc.

 

That does sound good. So I could just put vineyes around the perimieter of the area I want to cover and clip the crossovers together with gripples?
Do I even need to clip the crossovers together at all? I suppose it makes the whole thing stronger and a full grown montana is probably quite heavy!

 

Hi daisybelle
Having had a HUGE old montana at our old house I can say for sure that a full grown montana is a very heavy plant indeed and does grow quite fast.

We grew ours over our garage and when it got to the other side Bob made a wooden trellis walk way for it to grow through.

It looked stunning when it flowered in May nothing comes close to it's masses of flowers.
It would grow like crazy when the flowers had finished.
I'm sure yours will look wonderful too in no time at all.
Helen.xxx.