This is a simple DIY Rose trellis we have in our backyard for climbing roses. It was simple to put together!

We shared this post when my climbing roses were just a year old, so it only needed a short stake (you can see that in photos below). Over the years, we have updated it to fit the HUGE climbing roses. After getting requests about this on instagram stories, I wanted to update this post with some new photos for you.

When we bought our home over 5 years ago, the first thing I had to do was plant roses!

I’m an old soul for many reasons, but one of those would have to be my intense love for gardening. My passion for flowers began at a young age when I would help my dad with yard work on warm summer mornings. I was particularly obsessed with the pink mimosa blossoms on the trees. To this day, just seeing a mimosa tree transports me back to those long summer days when I didn’t have a care in the world.

One of my favorite plants in my landscape is roses! I love everything about them. I took Horticulture in college and learned many tips on growing them.

Today, I would like to show you a very simple way to create a rose trellis. I prefer this one to the store-bought kind because I wanted to create a wall of flowers.

Easy DIY ROSE TRELLIS

have two climbing rose bushes in the backyard. They are fairly close together, but I wanted to incorporate a trellis that would connect them as they grew taller, making almost a wall of flowers. I didn’t like the rose trellis at the garden stores, so I decided to make my own.

What You Need for This Trellis:

• 1 long piece of regular wood lattice – 8 ft long (mine was about $14 at Lowe’s)
• 3 wooden stakes with pointed tips – at least 36 in tall
• Wood screws
• Black spray paint (or any color you choose)

All it takes is screwing the stakes onto the lattice (I used a drill). One on each end, then one in the middle. The stakes don’t need to go all the way up to the top of the lattice, but high enough to be supportive. Spray paint it the color you choose. I used Rust-Oleum flat black. This helps with wood rot resistance. Then hammer into the ground a few inches, or at least until the lattice is sturdy. Here’s how ours looks…

To train my roses, I use a zip tie to secure them at a 45º angle. Obviously, as these continue to grow taller, we will add more height to the lattice. These roses are a little over a year old. They have bright red blooms!

And as always, my little helper was there to make sure it was done right!

This was how we made them originally, but now they have grown so large, we have gone back and created an even bigger homemade rose trellis.

Here is how we updated it:

• Added in another set of trellis pieces on top of the existing ones
• Surrounded trellis with a wood frame and screwed trellis in
• Wood legs go down over a foot and rocked in (you can also do concrete)

We haven’t painted the frame black yet because we were in a rush to put it up, but you can definitely paint it. The picture above is when we first added it in, now the roses have grown even more!

For more information on roses read my post on making your blooms huge, black spot tips, trimming roses and this fall/winter checklist!

Do Roses Need a Trellis?

A reader sent me an email the other day asking me if her roses needed a trellis? I think all climbing roses benefit from a trellis. If you don’t add one, the branches look scraggly, plus they aren’t very secure. If it is windy, the branches can break. So, I think climbing roses definitely need one to look their best!

Mine have grown so large using this DIY rose trellis!

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