The beauty of natural trellises | The Survival Gardener

Though we recently built cattle panel trellises, and have used Crickmore trellises, like this:

…natural trellises are much more beautiful and harmonious with nature.

Like this bamboo trellis our friend Kim made:

Natural materials break down faster and (usually) require rebuilding more often than man-made materials, but they also:

1. Don’t pollute the environment in their manufacture
2. Break down into compost after their useable lifespan
3. Are more aesthetically pleasing than paint, metal, plastic, etc.
4. Cost nothing to make
5. Can be grown on-site (via a clump of woods or stand of bamboo)
6. Make your garden look like the Shire

Part of me would like to build a garden featuring only natural materials for trellises and structures.

This:

Compared to this:

I prefer the look of the latter, and that isn’t even a well-built natural trellis.

The usefulness of a cattle panel trellis is hard to beat, but there is something magical to using only that which is harvested from nature.