How do you train jasmine along a trellis and fence?

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I have a jasmine with small pink flowers that I planted against a thin trellis, about a foot wide and six foot tall. The plant has now grown the full length of the trellis and is bunched up at the top, all the strands twisted around each other. There is trellis along the top of the fence as well.

How do I train the plant along the trellis to make it look nice? I also put up garden wire today along the fence to train it along that. It looks a bit straggly in the bottom half of the fence and then very top-heavy at the top.

Should I be cutting it back a bit at the top to even it out?

I’ve tried to find pictures on the net to copy but haven’t seen anything I like!

I’ll post a picture tomorrow.

Pink jasmine is a climbing vine; if it can’t find anything to climb along it will end up a tangled mess as it clings to itself in the absence of supports. Perhaps you could cut it right back after flowering and make sure it has sufficient wire or trellis to climb. I think you might need to create some sort of fan/triangle shape for it to climb up; a foot isn’t really wide enough.

Just cut it back and retrain it. It's a tough bugger

Thank you! I always feel so nervous about cutting plants back (I’m a very amateur gardener!).

I tried to untangle some of it today and then feed along the trellis at the top, will have another go tomorrow.