Attaching rose trellis to brick wall

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Hi, I have bought and planted a climbing rose against the front wall of my house.

I have bought a trellis for it to climb up.

BUT, how do I attach the trellis to the brick wall. I have various tools, including power drill, but I don't know how to deal with drilling into bricks.

Any advice? If it's not too difficult I'd quite like to do it myself, rather than just getting my dad (now in his late 70s) to help.

I just whacked a couple of nails in the wall and hung the trellis on them. Sophisticated stuff! I did arse around with vine eyes first but it was too difficult so went back to basics with a hammer and some nails.

Drill into the mortar between the bricks rather than the bricks themselves , using long wood screws to attach. Stain the trellis first before putting it up and put the holes in thinking in 5 years or so you’ll need to bring the trellis down to treat/replace it so put in the cross I’d the trellis so you çan find

Don’t have the trellis down to the soil level- it will rot

Or consider wire and vine eyes - easier to maintain - I’m ditching my wooden trellis as it rots

I’d use screws rather than nails so then you can remove the trellis without breaking it if you want to in future

Just off to Google vine eyes ....

@Gardenista with the vine eyes, do you screw them in or do you have to drill into the mortar? I've got those and I've got flat sort of triangle ones that I'm too scared to use.

The textbook way is to attach two horizontal battens to the wall and then attach the trellis to that. That way, there's better air circulation around the plant (so less disease) and you have more space for tying it in - if the trellis is very close to the wall, it can be a faff.

What do I stain the trellis with?

And do wood screws go into the mortar between the bricks, and hold in place ok?

Where do I buy wooden battens from? I like the idea of more air around the plant, but practically, is that a trip to Wickes or something like that. I've only got the expanding trellis from the garden centre

@SavoyCabbage - i wouldn’t screw into the mortar, depending on how crumbly the mortar is you may find it easier to drill a hole in the morat and hammer in a rawl plug then screw the vine eye into that.

It’s useful to be able to take the vine eye out in future if you ever needed to maintain the wall or something, I think

@SavoyCabbage - that’s meant to say - I would drill into the mortar not the bricks - much easier ..

www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/basics/techniques/plant_climber1.shtml

Thanks, my motar is like rock, that's the problem I think. l'll have another go. 🌹

Drill into the horizontal mortar joints rather than the vertical ones, the horizontal ones will be a more solid fixing, the vertical ones are sometimes not filled as much and you find voids in them .