24 best DIY garden trellis ideas & designs: build easy cucumber trellis, bean teepee, beautiful vine pergola, plant screen, & vegetable garden structures!
As a garden designer and plant lover, one of my favorite garden elements is the garden trellis. A plant trellis can add so much charm and functionality.
It offers supports for beautiful flowering or fruiting vines ( such as rose or cucumber trellis ), adds more growing area for small gardens, and helps to create attractive outdoor spaces such as tunnels, gates, privacy screens, and beautiful walls and fences.
I hope these 21 DIY-friendly garden trellis ideas and vertical growing structure projects will inspire you and I to explore all the creative possibilities of an abundant and beautiful garden!
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1. Magical DIY bamboo bean teepees garden trellis
A teepee is a very easy to build garden structure. This easy DIY bean teepee is made of bamboo stakes and garden twine. ( Source: Artful Parent )
2. Build a garden teepee cucumber trellis with branches
A garden teepee made of branches is a delightful retreat for all ages! You can also use it as a cucumber trellis. ( Source: Serendipity Life )
3. Tomato trellis works better than tomato cages
This simple DIY tomato trellis made it possible for us to grow over 100 lbs of tomatoes in just 20 square feet. Tutorial and building plan here.
4. Enchanting arched trellis ideas
A tunnel adds so much charm to a garden. It invites us to walk through and explore the garden with childlike wonder. This attractive squash arch trellis is made of branches and garden wires. Choose softer branches such as willow branches that are easy to bend .
5. How to build arched garden trellis
You can make trellis arch from many materials, such as branches, or PVC pipes.
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6. How to build bamboo garden trellis
Bamboo poles are strong yet light weight, which makes them easy to work with. You can create vertical garden structures and tie plants to the poles as they grow. ( Source: Elmueble )
7. Easy DIY bamboo trellis with strings
This type of bamboo garden trellis is great for growing tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, etc. ( Source: Fine Gardening )
8. Simple and sturdy A-frame wood trellis panels
Two wood framed panels joined together with hinges, these garden trellis panels can be stored flat when not in use. ( Source: 8 | Gardeners )
9. DIY A-frame garden trellis ideas
There are lots of creative variations for an A frame trellis, such as using hardware panel on the tomato trellis, or strings on the cucumber trellis. ( Source: Amazon | An Oregon Cottage )
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11. Easy cucumber trellis
The simple fold-able trellis design is great for a cucumber trellis. ( Source: Amazon )
12. Painted wood trellis
A painted wooden trellis adds so much color and charm to a garden! ( Source lost. Please let me know if you find it!)
13. Raised planter trellis for vegetables
A free standing wood or metal garden trellis planter is an effective way to create a screen or dress up a blank wall. ( Source: Seattle Urban Farm )
14. Wall trellis ideas
Wall trellis is a great feature to decorate a blank garden wall with flowers and vines. ( Source: Homes to Love )
15. Arched plant trellis ideas
You can also make an arch plant trellis from branches and short rebars or wood dowels. Beans and gourds are great plants for an arched trellis! ( Source: This Old House )
16. Beautiful plant trellis for vegetable gardens
Runner Beans trained over metal arbor leading to focal point of large classic earthenware jar. Via Garden Design
17. Garden gate pergola
A tunnel type arched trellis is amazing, especially when there are delicious fruits, veggies and pretty flowers hanging from it. ( Source: Sunset )
18. DIY Squash arch
This DIY squash arch can be a beautiful focal point in a vegetable garden.
19. Obelisk style wood garden trellis
An obelisk is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape at the top. It is a classic type of garden structure that adds elegance to a garden. ( Source: 16
20. Farmhouse country style wood trellis ideas
You can make really beautiful free standing obelisk style trellises from 1x2s and 2x2s. Tutorial at She Holds Dearly.
21. Vertical planter trellis
Love this Strawberry wood trellis planter by Elle Ogden .
22. Traditional kitchen garden trellis ideas
Before people had power tools, they made incredibly beautiful garden trellises like these using flexible branches from Willow or other native trees. ( Source: Tim Gainey )
23. Timeless inspirations: willow garden trellis and bench
This gorgeous woven bench and trellis is so magical. ( Source: Charlotte Moss )
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24. Ladder plant trellis ideas
In small space gardens, we can grow herbs and vegetables with planters attached to a sturdy frame that leans on any vertical surface. ( Source: BHG )
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Oh, I almost forgot this one! A DIY grape arbor / pergola with free building plan and lots of details!
Happy growing! See you next week!
Lydia
Fantastic ideas, I wish my garden was bigger so I could try some of the larger ones. Thank you for the post.
candy
All of these trellis are beautiful. I have grown the gourds and they look wonderful hanging down. Love the teepee idea for the kids.
Patrick Blair
We do the bamboo trellis every year! In fact, we’ll probably be planting our own bamboo soon so we always have that resource on hand! 🙂
Liz
You know, of course, that many types of bamboo can be extremely invasive…?
Kristin Vortex
You know, of course, that the bamboo used for the trellises is already dead.
Lori
Liz, that reply was in regard to the posted comment re: the intention of growing bamboo in order to have that resource always available.
Stephanie Rose
OMG I love the idea of the trellis teepee big enough for the kids to play in! I think I will make something like that in my yard this year and give my kids a place to play in the shade while i pull weeds!
Corsica Nambiar
My favorite are the teepees!!! I would really want to take on that task!
Michelle - Lillian Abbey
These are so cool! I’ve always wanted to have a secret garden style backyard. Magical!
Megan Campbell
These are beautiful ideas! I am always looking for pretty ways to get my garden vertical.
Tarryn
These are all great ideas, I really love the teepee and the bamboo trellis! I will be trying those out ?
Ann Capozza
Ananda, this post is awesome! – these ideas are not only beautiful, they are motivational!! I’d like to put different ones all over my property. If only I could get my produce to grow and produce as in these pictures depict!! Thank you!! ??
ananda
thank you ann! with you ultra green thumb i am sure your trellises will be stunning! =) xo
Chamoise
So beautifulll some ideas simple to create…I love teepies…
It is your garden Ananda?
Thank’sd take care of you…
ananda
not my garden YET, but lots of these will be in my garden soon! xoxo
Tessa Hudson
bamboo is great stuff,but be careful that its dried or cured. If green it can take root!
ananda
thank you so much tessa for sharing this info! =)
Janie
I plan to try two new trellis ideas for my beautiful passion vines this summer.
First a dead potted ficus tree that froze this winter. It’s big enough to make an umbrella shaped
trellis for a vine. The pot should be large enough to add the vine and still keep the tree roots in tact to support it.
Second…an old wooden ladder. I think it would be lovely covered with beautiful blooming vines.
Sort of a small teepee.
Thanks so much for the wonderful ideas and photos. You inspire me.
ananda
some great fun ideas Janie! thank you so much for sharing! =)
Petra Lux
So many fab ideas, I passed an arbor at the thrift shop the other day ouch I want it now. Definatley going to implement a few ideas out the front and backyard, brilliant post as usual
ananda
thank you petra! those regrets happen to me too! =)
Cheryl
All of them are so amazing! This is why I want to live in the rural when I get older 😀 Thank you for sharing!
Ian McGregor Pools & Landscapes
Lots of beautiful ideas! These all look AMAZING! Keep up the good work. All the best. 🙂
Aldrin Netsearch
This is a very great DIY idea. Thanks for this! Such a great blog
Garden Dad
I am living for these DIY garden trellis! They all look so amazing, I’m itching to build them all one at a time! 🙂
Anthony
It’s amazing DIY ideas. It’s nice to see it. I learned a lot from it. Thanks for sharing this.
Dan Swenaon
I am going to try a trellis for cherry and grape tomatoes. I thought about it last summer, while I picked tomatoes off of the ground. I had a good crop so that made things tougher.
ananda
hi dan, that sounds like a great idea! tag us on instagram when you have pictures of them 🙂
Gazebo Jungle
How long do they usually last? Wouldn’t mind setting a few up on my garden at home.
ALFIADO jULAI sITOE
Muitos parabéns aos génios e pensadores destas culturas de hortas e plantas de ornamentação,o que inspira variadíssimas iniciativas pelo Mundo fora.
Com os melhores cumprimentos.
AJsitoe
daniel
Wow! There is some great ideas covered in this post thanks for sharing it 🙂 The teepee trellis is defineitely on my to do list.
Steven Marco
Great DIY trellis ideas! We made the teepees, and they turned out great!
Vishal Lodhi
Love your blogs. Your stuff is worth sharing. Keep up the good work!
G. Esmeralda
Muito boas as sugestões!!!
Joyce
I am new to this so I don’t know what I am doing. But I am so in love with the arch or trellis #15. I would like to find the directions and list of supplies needed, is that possible?
ananda
hi Joyce! willow branches would be the best materials to make this. 🙂 there are several good resources listed here- https://www.apieceofrainbow.com/10-amazing-living-structures/
Miriam
These trellis ideas are so helpful! We are going to make some before spring planting season!
Paul Hunts
Wow! fantastic ideas, fits for a small garden that I have in my landscape design and back yard. Thank you for the post.
Eric Alcorn
Hey, thank you for the effort in sharing your good thoughts about garden trellis ideas!
Shannon
These are some great DIY trellis structure ideas! We are getting our garden ready for spring. Will be busy building some of these!