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I found your article quite interesting. As a Landscape Designer in flat South Florida, this is an issue we deal with alot. You have used some great techniques. I thought you might like to hear of a few I have tried. I have used bamboo poles to make trellises and single poles for climbers like you have. Bamboo can be easily drilled and members can tied together with copper wire and an electrician's pliers. The copper which will definately last and develop a green patina over time. Caution should be used - bamboo will rot if sunk directly into the ground but is long lasting above it. It can actually be sleaved over pressure treated posts or held on concrete piers with metal fasteners much like deck posts. It can give a tropical look but it is also a temperate zone plant and its look can be used with a varied garden theme.
A vertical garden can be made on existing trees or any other vertical surface.
We have supported vines by using clear monofiliment fishing line secured by hooks screwed into the bottom of facia boards on the house. You don't see the trellis - just a load of flowers that cover a wall.
We live on 1.5 acres of FLAT, mostly tree-less dirt. 2/3's of it is dirt "pasture" for horses & goats. I would love to get extra dirt to build berms and mounds, but since am gardening on the "cheap", can't buy it. My butterfly bushes are 7ft now and getting taller and I realize I finally am getting some shade! I took one of those real estate for sale posts and use it to hang bird feeders and solar lamp with plants and vine at the base. LOL, teen daughter said it looks like trailer trash, I say the white matches house trim and looks "cottagey". Still need more ideas though...
