If you already have an idea in mind for growing a climbing plant on a wall or the front of your home, you've come to the right place! Nearly all climbing plants need a support system of some kind. Even 'self climbing' plants will usually benefit from or may even require additional support. While FassadenGrün specialises in wall-bound trellis systems made of stainless steel tension cables, individual parts and wires for freestanding ('row') trellises are also available. You can choose from our complete prefabricated wire rope trellis systems in various versions ('construction styles'), or design your own trellis by selecting individual parts. We offer you information about other providers and any possible challenges you may encounter. As an alternative to cable trellises, lattice trellises made of wood, metal, and bamboo are also available here!
Answers to important basic questions
Basic shapes for cable trellises
Comparing designs (Easy, Light, Medium, Heavy, Massive trellises)
Screws, bolts, clamps, trellis fittings, etc..
Cable systems that are not facade-based (for pergolas, row trellising, etc..)
Ideal for large surfaces
The market for trellis cables
Information about material used
Potential issues with cable systems (rust, etc..)
Assembling and attaching a wire rope trellis
‘Rope systems’ sounds complicated, but all it means is that ropes are not installed somehow, but rather in a planned manner. This starts with the diameters, i.e. the question: What rope thickness is appropriate and when? It also involves anchoring and wall spacing and, finally, the arrangement of the strands: Horizontal or vertical? Crosswise? Distances from each other or ‘mesh widths’? The term ‘rope systems’ seems appropriate for all of this.
‘Cable systems’ are all well and good, but since when have such cables been used on façades? Nobody really knows for sure. Wall greening with wooden trellises has been around for more than 300 years, e.g. for espalier fruit in the kitchen gardens of Versailles Palace in France. Presumably from around 1850, ‘trellis wires’ were used, as an old photo of the ‘orange house’ in Gotha shows. Bare iron wires were used, which rusted quickly. Sometimes copper wire was also used (see photo). Until around 1970, there is no mention of ropes, only of ‘wires’. These were usually galvanised steel wires.
Wire ‘ropes’ have been around since 1834, when they were invented in the Harz Mountains for mining as a replacement for hemp ropes. However, wires were preferred for façade greening. They were thinner and cheaper. According to some literature in eco-books from the 1980s, it seems likely that (galvanised) steel cables were used for greenery from that time onwards. However, wire ropes on façades only really began their triumphant advance from 1990, when inexpensive stainless steel ropes became available.
Wire rope components from FassadenGrün suit both old and new buildings, here at the ‘Calwer Passage’ in Stuttgart / Baden-Württemberg
