Ensuring your climbing plants have the support they need will allow your vines to become a real focal point in the garden, dressing bare walls and fences, traversing trellises, and transforming arches and arbors. Plants like climbing roses, clematis, honeysuckle and wisteria are all the better for a strong framework to ramble over. They will all thrive with a little support.
You can use structures to train plants to climb a certain way, such as shape them around an entrance or over an arch. Meanwhile obelisks will add a sculptural element that really lifts a humdrum border, while an ornamental fruit cage is both practical and beautiful to look at. There's a practical element too, as sturdy supports can help to protect your plants from being flattened by the wind.
