Beautiful plants, strewn with a scattering of star-shaped flowers, adorn most suburban areas. Graceful stems of clematis, climbing a trellis or a support, form openwork screens crowned with many elegant flowers of the most incredible shapes and colors. These beautiful plants are used mainly for vertical gardening, and they are able to show the greatest decorativeness only if placed on a support. And therefore, the support for clematis with your own hands is a component of the competent organization of vertical gardening in landscape design.
Features of growing clematis
Thin vines strewn with many beautiful flowers are welcome guests in many areas. Blooming in early summer, they are able to delight with amazing flowering throughout the season.
Large-flowered varieties that can cover an area of up to 4-5 meters are an elegant decoration of the front areas of the site: the walls of the veranda and arbors, the main entrance and the front garden
Fine-flowered varieties of clematis are excellent for shading facades of buildings, grottoes, stairs and unsightly buildings.
A clematis hedge, like a thick woven carpet of thousands of marvelous flowers, can not only transform the site, but hide it from the prying eyes of passers-by
Clematis - plants that prefer sunny areas, but require shading of the root system, in simple words "head in the sun and feet in the shade." The second no less important condition for growing these flowering plants is to place them on supports. Properly selected supports for clematis will allow you to give the desired shape with the compositions and show the decorative qualities of the plant.
Clematis most often act as the center for the design of vertical landscaping. When choosing plants for decorating a site, it is advisable to take into account the biological characteristics of a particular variety. If you want to create declining "cascades" or elegant "garlands", it is better to opt for varieties whose flowers are more concentrated at the ends of the shoots, for example: Serenade of Crimea, Biryuzinka, Mountaineer. For the design of "carpet" compositions, it is better to give preference to varieties whose flowers are evenly distributed along the liana: Cosmic Melody, Alyonushka, Gray bird.
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Types of supports for flowering clematis
Depending on the form of support for clematis, there are:
- Arched;
- Pyramidal;
- Fan constructions.
The main requirements that apply to them are: decorativeness, ease of installation and ease of use. Thanks to the supports, the stems of clematis do not break and are not trampled. With the help of vertical stands it is possible to provide ventilation of plants, which is the key to their rapid development and abundant flowering. The arch is the most common type of garden support for flowering plants.
The support, entwined with blooming clematis, in addition to being an elegant element of decoration of any garden, helps to divide the space into separate functional zones
The arch, twisted with clematis, installed at the beginning of the track just looks amazing. She as if invites you to walk along the winding paths of the garden and immerse yourself in its bewitching beauty
Clematis also feel comfortable on pyramidal tripods made of reed, or metal or willow rods.
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Pyramidal supports give good support to the flexible stems of the plant. They look appropriate both in multi-tiered flower arrangements, and as a stand-alone design
To create a cozy romantic corner in the garden, where you can retire on a sultry noon or on a cool evening, hiding from the prying eyes of passers-by and enjoying the bewitching beauty, you can use the trellis.
What can you build yourself?
The material for the manufacture of supports for clematis can be wood or metal. The thickness of the rods and wooden bars, for which the petioles of clematis leaves cling, should not exceed 10-15 mm. Designs are built with a height of 1 to 5 or more meters.
Option # 1 - Wooden Trellis
For the manufacture of external frames of the structure with dimensions of 180x60 cm, you will need:
- Four beams with a section of 50x40 mm 1.8 meters long;
- Four beams cross-section 100x40 mm 0.6 meters long;
- One bar with a section of 150x15 mm 0.6 meters long.
To build an internal lattice, the cell sizes of which are 25x15 cm, it is necessary to prepare:
- Four slats with a cross section of 25x15 mm 1.8 meters long;
- Eight slats with a cross section of 25x15 mm 0.55 m long.
Having prepared all the necessary elements for the trellis, we assemble the structure. To do this, first we make two external frames, the bars of which are connected together using a screwdriver and a drill. To make the inner lathing using a tape measure, we outline the cell sizes and fasten the rails to each other on self-tapping screws.
Clematis trellis is a structure consisting of two external frames, between which there is a wooden grill
We install the grill between the two outer frames. To give structural rigidity on the upper side of the trellis, you can fix a horizontal bar connecting the external frames and the crate
The trellis is ready. It can be placed on the wall of the gazebo or house, leaving a distance between the vertical surface and the structure of 10 cm. To extend the life of the wooden support, the surface of the trellis can be coated with paint or varnish.
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Option # 2 - openwork arched design
To make an elegant arch that will decorate the front area of the site, you need to prepare:
- Four pieces of pipe with a diameter of 30 mm with a wall thickness of 1.5 mm;
- Metal rod with a section of 10x10 mm;
- Concrete.
The dimensions of the future design are determined from the calculation of where it will be located and what function to perform. When planning to place the arch along the central path, the width of which is 110 cm, it is necessary to build a structure 120 cm wide. The side walls of the arch can be made in the form of frames on the "legs", which can be filled with simple patterns of curls made of metal rods 6-8 mm thick .
Most often, arched vaults are given a semicircular shape, but the lancet, gable or ordinary flat version looks no less spectacular
Individual elements of the pattern are easy to make using cold forging, or simply by screwing a thin rod onto a larger diameter pipe
If the flat arches of the structure can be made independently, then the arched arches are better to bend on a rolling mill. The support pillars of the arch can simply be driven into the ground, deepened by 70-80 cm. If you want to create a more solid support for the flowers, it is advisable to concrete the legs of the structure.
By installing the walls of the arch, you can weld the arches and connect them at several points with horizontal rods. Assembling a picture frame is an exciting creative process.
To simplify the process of creating a twisted pattern, it is advisable to preliminarily make full-size templates from aluminum soft wire, for clarity, which can be fixed on stretched frame cords using stationery clamps
First, we “grab” large elements, making smooth transitions from smaller arcuate parts. When the pattern is fully decorated, we weld all the details from two sides, and then process it from the influx.
The arch is assembled. It remains only to treat its surface with the "rust converter", and then thoroughly wash, dry and paint in the desired color.
