Cricket,
One idea I have seen, was using stainless steel eye screws, and then spider - webbing wire back and forth across it, then just training the vines to grow up it. Have you thought about clematis or honeysuckle or even climbing roses???
Hope this helps some.


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Today I was given a bunch of bamboo stakes. Is bamboo strong enough to use as a trellis?

Does anyone know how many vines will grow comfortably in a 3 gallon pot?

i'd be comfortable putting up to 3 per pot... depending on the type of vine...

I'd say the same, it would depend on the
type of vine....

Any chance of building a *as long as the wall is*
and maybe 8", 10" or 12" deep wooden planter box
the length of the wall you're covering???

You'd get alot more root room....
If you're covering a huge section like that??

And how tall are the bamboo stakes???

And did you tell us which way the wall is facing?
Does it get morning sun, and/or all day sun??

Weezie

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I used like kite string to make mine climb on a wall last year. I couldn't afford trellises, so my mom suggested that I place a tack so high up on the wall and run string from the ground to the tack. Works okay as long as it's not too wind where it'll be. I had some on the corners and the first tornado winds we had took them down on one side. but they are easy to put back up.

this year I think I'm gonna go with baskets from hooks and let my vines trail out and down for a different look.

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do you have a picture of the cathedral bells. Never seen em.

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Thanks! I want the pots to look full but don't want to waste seeds by thinning much.

Cricket, I think that whether or not any given material will be strong enough is dependent upon how you plan to anchor it. The eye-hooks thusfar seems like the best idea to me. It's a tall wall.

BTW, I hate, hate, HATE morning glory. That stuff has nearly destroyed my back fence and I've been fighting it these last 3 years to keep it away from the house. I'm not kidding. It's coming after the house. I've actually been fighting it for 7 years... since I moved into this place.

Oh, sure they SAY they're annuals... but those dang roots stay warm enough to survive, the little buggers. The thing has grown up into a tree so high that there's no way for me to use round-up. I can't clip the buds before the seed pods drop.... Oh... there's the other thing... only the stuff that's made to kill poison ivy or other SERIOUSLY invasive plants works on the stuff... not to mention the skin irritation and the fact that kids are getting high off of it...

All that being said... I'm all for Clematis

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unwanted climbing vines are a fact of life around here in Georgia. I have found that if you take a pair of limb loppers, and just cut the vine off above the ground, if it is climbing into a tree will kill the upper part, and when the part left in the ground starts to grow just spray it.

I have killed poison ivy, honeysuckle, morning glory, even some english ivy that way.

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Linda,

When I sowed my cathedral bells, I didn't know they had to be planted on their sides, so I wasn't particularly careful about their placement. They all germinated very quickly. When they had few true leaves, I transplanted them into pots and am now acclimatizing them to the outdoors, where they will have a permanent home (in pots) by the end of March. They really are one of the easiest (so far) vines!

Cricket

Cricket,
Have you seen something like this???
Rolling Planter/Trellis

I was thinking alot taller trellis than what's pictured, you've got such a high~open area there on the side..

But that type of planter box, on wheels with a trellis....looked nice to me..

Weezie

Found a wooden one without wheels

Found a bunch of cute accents for your yard, and trellis' and arbors... Make sure you scroll all the way down to the bottom.....

Okay, one more idea....

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Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
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