The flower and fruit trellis is as beautiful as a dream; once you sit down, you never want to leave

Build a simple trellis

Plant climbing plants at the base of the posts

By next spring

Lush green leaves and flowers twine around the trellis

The courtyard will take on a whole new look

Take a nap or read a book beneath the trellis

Especially on a warm, sunny afternoon

The sun filters through the green shade and falls on you

With a gentle breeze softly brushing by

How delightful it is

The trellis is like light gauze, the mossy wall like a brocade screen

Turbulent currents run deep through the bamboo path, a riot of flowers on the small islet

A poem by the Tang dynasty poet Yong Tao

It must be the most beautiful interpretation of courtyard life

Among it all, what touches the heart most is simply the trellis covered in greenery

Following the scent of flowers, we walk hand in hand!

Hey, let's meet up for a two-yuan afternoon tea!

Trellises are very popular in parts of the Americas, South Africa and other countries with mild climates.

Whether in public places or private gardens, there are mainly three styles of trellis:

?  Corridor trellis

The most common form, with flat panels supported on the left and right beams and posts. 

?  Panel trellis

Flat panels are fixed onto single-direction beams and posts, cantilevered on both sides or one side, making the form lighter and more lively .

?  Freestanding trellis

Various materials are used to create openwork shapes such as walls, vases and umbrella pavilions, then climbing plants are trained over them to take shape.

Upright trees, easily bent branches and rope can be used to build an arch over a bench, a turf chair or a soil bank planted with white-flowered chamomile, creating a simple trellis landscape.

If used as an archway, it becomes a dividing marker in the garden, and before you know it, it becomes the focal point.

An archway hung with bells, when the breeze blows, sounds like flowers whispering softly.

Guided by ropes, or framed by wrought iron or a glass pavilion, with greenery climbing over it, the trellis of a sky garden is also dreamlike.

Sitting beneath the courtyard trellis, with dappled sunlight on the ground, sipping a cup of tea and looking up at clusters of swaying green leaves on the frame. In garden design,

only with the embellishment of a trellis does it seem to count as a perfect horticultural life.

Lost in thought beneath the trellis, everything is so quiet it intoxicates the heart.

There is a rich variety of plants suitable for climbing on a trellis

, such as wisteria, Clematis, Chinese trumpet creeper, Boston ivy, Banks's rose, flame vine, climbing rose, climbing floribunda rose and so on.

A mature wisteria plant has winding, twisting stems and blooms profusely, with strings of flower clusters hanging among the green leaves and vines, and slender seed pods swaying in the wind; this is the elegance of wisteria.

As the "queen" of climbers, Clematis is more than suitable as a plant for archways and trellises. Clematis has numerous varieties with different flowering periods, offering countless possibilities when paired together. Walking through an archway decorated with Clematis feels like entering a wonderful Alice in Wonderland.

Fruit and melon types include grape, kiwifruit, luffa, gourd, pumpkin and so on.

Melon and vegetable types usually grow fast, so if you can't wait, plant melons!

For climbing plants with herbaceous stems, such as gourd, cypress vine and morning glory, they often need to be guided upward with strings, and supports and fixings are also needed between the trellis posts, beams and panels so they can cover the whole frame.

The plants are not too dense, letting some sunlight through, scattering in patches on you, like walking through the cracks of time.

A small trellis can serve as a support for climbing plants and trailing plants, not only providing dappled green shade but also a comforting place to rest. When it leans against the side of a house, it gives an endless feeling. Time beneath the trellis, steeped in the scent of flowers, spreads like trailing plants, as if life itself were extended.

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