If you are attaching a trellis directly to a wall, leave a space of about 5 cm behind it to make it easier for the vine to grow around and behind the slats. Here you can see the new trellis in my back shade garden is screwed into some pieces of wood which create the desired space. If a trellis is the kind with "legs" that you poke into the ground, then leave the same amount of space but secure the top with a wire or bracket to give some extra support.
Voila! Here's my new trellis with a little clematis tangutica planted at the bottom. I really like the feeling of being "in" a garden, which means that there are not only plants at your feet, but plants growing up the walls of the garden as well, and closing you in. I hope this trellis and vine will help to achieve that in a few years, in a very shady, dry area of the garden where things had been looking a little bare.
Now if only I could camouflage that electrical meter box! I'm thinking of painting it blue...
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