How To Make A DIY Plant Trellis For Pots For Indoor Plants

It has been a slow-growing process, but somehow over the last few years, I have become one of those plant ladies.  You know the ones.  They have a room almost dedicated to just their plants.

A good many of the plants I have are vining plants. This project was born out of a need for using what I have in my craft room stash to come up with a DIY plant trellis idea for the pots for my indoor plants.

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I can admit that I might have a few too many plants right now.  Can plants be hoarded?

No matter where we have lived I have always had indoor plants. 

Mostly Pothos plants that have been started from the original plant my granddaddy gave me when I was 22 and was moving out on my own before getting married.  For over 30 years I have traveled with these plants, repotted dozens of them and given them away to family and friends, and spread them throughout my house.

And then those friends and family started giving me plants of different kinds. I guess they figured I really liked indoor plants and you know I never turned them down. 

Those new plants grew to fill up small pots, got repotted in bigger pots, and tiny offsprings were planted in new pots. It is a constant cycle of new plants needing new pots.

My current favorite is a Queen of the Night hybrid I am anxiously waiting for one of them to finally bloom one day.  

 

 

For the Pothos plants, the vines usually grow to the floor until I finally cut them off again to make new smaller potted plants or throw the extra length out.  Yes, I have had to do that from time to time because I have to tell myself that I just don’t need any more potted plants!

Since Pothos plants are easy to grow and make amazing climbing plants if they are given great support, they were the perfect plants in my collection to use for my first DIY planter trellis project. 

I have needed to do this for some time to add some type of decorative and functional plant trellises to the pots I already have.  Shopping online for indoor plant trellis options made me realize that adding trellises for each potted plant was more money than I wanted to spend.

So I started pulling out some craft room supplies and searching online for the best DIY garden trellis ideas and plant supports to figure out a way to make a few of my own.

 

 

After some trial and error, I ended up making two different types of DIY plant trellises.

The first one I made is a DIY birdcage plant trellis using a wire wreath hoop, a roll of 20 gauge wire, and floral wire.  I have several sizes of wire wreath hoops in my craft stash and these combined with some metal wire was a great way to repurpose these items into my DIY trellis idea.

 

 

For this project, I used a 10-inch wire wreath hoop from Hobby Lobby, a roll of 20 gauge wire from Home Depot, wire-cutting pliers, jewelry-making pliers (from my mom’s stash), and a few stems of green floral wire from Hobby Lobby. 

To make the shape of a birdcage, I cut 5 lengths of the 20 gauge wire to around 40 inches each.  This length was based on the size and height of the pot I was using so your measurements may be different for your own DIY trellis.

Since the wire is rather curly off the roll, I actually used the shape of the pot itself to bend each piece into a dome shape.  It was what I had available and it worked out rather well.  You may find a different solution to shaping the wire pieces.

 

 

 

Next, I inserted the now dome-shaped wire pieces into the dirt in the plant in a circle pattern.  

 

 

The individual wires were then connected at the top with a small piece of green floral wire.  Once all of the wire pieces were connected, I could then reshape them as needed for the birdcage look.  The jewelry-making pliers came in handy to bend and close tight the green floral wire around the group of wires.

 

 

Now that the basic shape had been created, I easily slid a 10-inch wire wreath hoop over the top of the wires to complete the birdcage shape. 

 

 

 

 

Each wire was then securely attached to the wire wreath hoop using more small cuts of green floral wire.  During this process, I was able to slide the wires around and adjust them as needed in the pot to create the birdcage shape. 

 

 

The last step was to wrap the long vines up and around the individual wires of the birdcage trellis to bring some height and charm to the plain Pothos plant. Doing this definitely hid the slight wonky bends in the wire from my amateurish first attempt at this shape for a plant trellis.

 

 

 

 

 

The second plant trellis I decided to make was a simple hoop trellis just using another wire wreath hoop, twine, and some more of the 20 gauge wire.

This type of plant trellis is fairly simple.  All you need to do is add some wire spikes to the wire wreath hoop, insert it into the pot, and wrap the vines around the round hoop shape.  Or I thought it would be. 

My first attempt didn’t work so well because the two wire spikes I created to insert into the pot were too weak and flimsy so the hoop kept falling over. Vining plants can get heavy and my DIY wire trellis needed a sturdy structure. 

Realizing this important step, I doubled the 20 gauge wire and twisted more of it around the wire wreath hoop, it created a better support system for the trellis design.

 

 

This project also used a 10-inch wire wreath hoop.  I also used a piece of twine to cover part of the hoop for even more texture to secure trailing plants. Adding some natural materials like twine with hot glue gives this simple DIY project a boho kind of vibe. 

 

 

In this post, I shared my own DIY trellis ideas using surplus wire wreath hoops out of my craft stash that made for such an inexpensive and easy solution for my viney plants.

Over time, I will use these same techniques to make a few more for my other plants.  They add much charm and character and also some needed height for each vining plant to continue to grow.  

If you have ever created your own version of a DIY plant trellis I would love to see photos of the finished product.  I need the inspiration to continue to make a small trellis for more of my plant collection.

 

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Some other ideas for easy DIY trellis projects for your indoor plants.

Your local garden centers probably have some fabulous ready-made plant trellis for you to consider if you don’t have the time to make your own DIY trellis.  But if you do want to make your own, then they can also be a great way to find inspiration for a unique idea to make your own DIY indoor plant trellises.  

Take some time to shop at thrift stores for items that can be repurposed into a functional trellis.

Old window frames, wire mesh, wooden stakes, and a large container may be just the things to take your climbing plants to the next level. 

 

Now I invite you to take some time and visit all of the other talented bloggers who participated in the Creative Craft Blog Hop this month, starting with the next one in line with Terry from Decorate and More with Tip and her DIY Fluffy Snowman Wreath. 

 

 

Until next month,