Wine Garlands

In bygone times, vine garlands used to be grown all over the farmyards as per System 0040. In garden art, they were known as festoons.

Wall strips approx. 0.6 - 1.2m wide. Garlands are the perfect solution should you wish to green only a narrow area, or if only very narrow areas are available. On half-timbered houses they are a necessity due to fastening.

The "spartan" trellis consists of just one strand, which runs parallel to the stem, without any adjacent wires or espalier slats etc. Examples can also be found under Roofings. The distance from the wall is negligible: the support only serves to fasten the horizontal stem to the wall. However, the stem must not be wound around the wire, but guided strictly parallel and fixed to the wire.

Training garlands is very simple: in the 1st Year a main shoot is grown and the subsequent training is similar to that of Vertical Cordons or Horizontal Cordons, though less strict. Each year, the main trunk is lengthened and side shoot positions are formed on it for future fruiting canes. The distance between these shoot positions varies according to the intended use of the garland. The side shoot positions undergo Spur Pruning, and Summer Pruning is also recommended. Because the fruiting canes tend to bend downwards from the horizontal cordons along the wall, which can cause them to twist axially, the horizontal stems may be slightly bent, resulting in an undulating form, whereby the curvatures support themselves against the wall.

Unfortunately, canes in garlands often break under their own weight and in windy situations, and even for vigorously upright growing vines the garland form is not suitable. Often entire side shoot positions fail, resulting in sparse foliage especially in the lower areas.