Help required with trellis bushes/plants

Hello all

I am completely new to gardening and havent been able to make much progress in finding a solution to my need..

I have a small garden with trellis at the top of all the fences. For more privacy and security from the field behind I would like some heavy green plants/bushes to be intertwined or locked onto the trellis all around.

I don't want to buy seeds that I plant and wait for years to achieve the results I want. I want to purchase the above and get it all going. The fence edges do not have any soil ...

Thanking you in advance

 

Hi

Thanks for the reply

I am in west london suburbs - middlesex.

There isnt much sun coming to the fence - I think the garden is south facing, a tree in the field behind overshadows the garden.

I want to get ones that are already grown - where could I get these?

Yes it is concrete, but getting containers is no problem. I just dont want to wait years to see them grow, I want to buy them from somewhere - not sure if possible and where?

thanks!

 

You'll need huge containers for long term climbers as eventually they'll outgrow the pots. Could you break up the concrete to make a few holes to plant climbers in, so they at least have access to the ground and can really spread their roots to grow. You'll get better coverage that way.

As for plants, even small ones make good progress after a year and don't cost a fortune and many of them are evergreen which is handy for winter!

 

I planted a clematis in a huge pot two years ago and it's done great but I know this winter/next spring I will have to plant it out...from now on, only annuals will go in pots.

 

Hi

Thanks for the replies

So is it just a matter of buying large planters from the nurseries, burying them into soil, trailing them up the fence and through the trellis? Then watering?

Thansk

 

In a nutshell, yes. But you need to choose plants that suit where they'll be planted (shade, dappled shade, full sun) and even the biggest planters will eventually be too small.