Im a big believer in growing your garden up usingtrellises, arbors and other supports.
Growing up provides three exceptional benefits in a garden.
First, it provides more room to grow.
Second, creating vertical points of interest in your yard makes the space so much more interesting.
Lastly, it creates shade and sun.
It creates a microclimate.
The key to all of this is to choose the right support and the right plant.
A trellis is simply a vertical structure that may be flat or accordion-style.
Arches can be skinny or wide, but cross a space that people can walk under.
An arbor has vertical and horizontal supports for plants such as berries, grapes or figs.
Now you just have to decide what to grow.
The same is true for passionfruit, which doubles in size year to year and features gorgeous passionflowers.
If you let it grow, you will eventually develop passionfruit, too.
Because of how prolific these plants are, you really want to consider how youll handle them in fall.
Even in the short summer season, they can cover your entire pergola.
Vines all have different rules about when and how much you prune them.
These are all annuals, meaning they only live for the season.
If you allow the beans to just drop, they will reseed on their own and might eventually perennialize.
Most green beans are pole beans, and also grow prolifically in one season.
Akebia is not technically invasive, but can grow out of hand too easily.
Obviously, dont plant kudzu.
Other problematic invasive vines include wintercreeper, porcelain berry, and oriental bittersweet.
You want to ensure these are never tight, or they wont allow growth.
