Treillage was very popular in Medieval gardens, both as ornamental screens, and to train plants upon. Vines such as grapes and climbing roses were often used, but it was also popular to train trees upon a trellis structure. Trees were trained over arbors and pleached together to form shady galleries.
Medieval gardens evolved into Renaissance gardens, there was never a break which separated the two. Some ancient texts about gardening survived from the Classical period, both in Western monasteries and in Byzantium. Scholars combined these texts with what they cold learn from Roman ruins, such as the ruins of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. Gradually, the grander gardens moved away from Medieval traditions and became more classical. The gardens of the minor gentry retained Medieval characteristics well into the 19th Century, so did monastery gardens. In France, the Medieval traditions survived in the potager.
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