Since I don't have a fence on my property (other than the neighbors wood one on one side), I intend to purchase a trellis to install against one of the walls of my (stucco) home. I do have some pillars on my porch, however, at the moment there are large existing shrubs there and while I may pull them out due to them being incredibly overgrown and blocking part of the architectural interest of the house, I'm not quite ready to do so until I have an actual plan in place.

Anyway, what I'm wondering is whether or not I should bother buying something overly decorative or not. I mean, in the end, the rose will wind up covering the trellis pretty completely, correct? Am I better off just purchasing something which will do the job instead of wasting my money on something pretty? On the other hand I think come winter, it may be better to have an interesting item against the house than a plain piece of wood or whatever material it winds up being.

I'm also considering a stand alone trellis as well, for the small area which is an actual "garden", since I'll probably wind up getting another climber I'm sure.

So any advice you can give would help, including what material I should be looking at like wood opposed to vinyl or wrought iron, etc. I do have a few places where I can place these types of roses (I have a detached garage which gets good sunlight on the wall all day), and one of the walls of the house on a side yard which pretty much gets sun all day too so I'm looking forward to trying this out finally :)

Are you planning on attaching it to the stucco wall or stand it just in front of it? If you're attaching it, it's going to need spacers to keep it away from the stucco, to give you room to tie your canes and to protect the stucco, and big sturdy bolts to hold it in place or the rose could take it down eventually.

I had a feeling iron might be better. I'll have to do some research online for that type. I can see now where wood might not be the best choice.