Add Romance to Your Garden By Following These 9 Tips

A lot of you will agree when I say that leafy pergolas in all styles and shapes invite you down the garden area.

There is an air of romance about a classic garden pergola, whether it is surrounded by climbing roses or framing a view. These 9 ways to add a classic victorian pergola to your landscape will add shade, anchor path, and gates, adds structure to beds, and show off flower vines.

Set off your yard

Turn an often forgotten area of the garden into a beautiful destination by adding pergola-topped gate covered in blooms, marking the entry point to your side yard.

For pergolas that are near to the home, coordinating with the design of the building is important. This western red cedar pergola with designer-style details would complement a 1 storey home, a cottage-style or a craftsman-style house.

Cover with creeping plants

Pergolas provide a vertical form that can open up your increasing potential for all kinds of vines. Grow aromatic varieties of wisteria or climbing roses to enjoy the fragrance as you pass under.

If you like flavor than fragrance you might enjoy planting grapevines over a structure of train cherry tomatoes on the side for easy picking.

In this Engish cottage-style landscape, the designer planted a lush-pink climbing rose up on the side of pergola and a wine-red clematis to ramble up the other.

Make an inviting seating nook

A pergola can make a seating area more attractive. This understated cedar pergola and bench stained in deep charleston green offer an invitation to sit in the garden and enjoy the beautiful hydrangeas fading from green to pink in late summer.

A pergola that is more solid can also be utilized as the supporting structure for a hammock or swinging bench. Climbing roses provides shade and solitude during the day, and lightings would make a covered pergola attractive in the night.

Build a sweet pathway

Nothing resists cottage harm like passing under a curved pergola planted with different flowers on your way to the front entrance. If you are building a pergola to cover a gate, make sure to keep the size larger or close to the average door size to give a sense of comfort while passing underneath.

3 Feet wide and 6 feet tall is an average exterior door.

Make a formal statement

Pile multiple pergola along a garden path to emphasize the focal point of a formal garden layout. In this garden York, England, 4 linked steel pergolas planted with climbing roses a corridor leading to a classic Italian styled fountain, which shapes the middle of the backyard.

Anchor the entry point

A plain wooden pergola or steel archway planted with vines can help anchor a garden entry point to the landscape, making it appear like a part of the design. Here, a pergola topped with a mesh of vines makes a rustic wooden gate feel like a natural part of the garden.

Plant a sheltered corridor

In warm summer, pathways covered in shade can be some of the garden’s inviting places. Build a shady corridor by putting multiple pergolas down a path and connecting the spaces between them with extra trellising to support vines.

This is a very simple style of wide wooden pergola connected with a wire that will rapidly change into a lush blooming corridor surrounded by climbing roses and clematis vines.

In this picture cordon apple trees trained over a pergola in the veggie garden create a light shade area in the summertime and a lovely focal point all year.

Frame the focus of attention

Pergolas grab our awareness in the garden and can be used to direct the senses to a destination, focal point of view. In this garden in Oregon, the designer trained white-barked trees over metal arches to structure an allée framing a vacant urn.

A smaller garden may not have adequate space for a focal point with large pergola. However, a pergola placed inside a garden bed still has the same effect of grabbing attention to a focal point.

Installing a shade sail for patio is also one of the best ways to give a focal point to your area, by incorporating this type of cloth you are giving the shade you need during summer and is easy to remove when not in use.

Create a transition from one space to the next area

Place a pergola to mark a change in the area, such as at the start of an entry point or where one garden room gives way to another. A generously planted pergola has the additional benefit of hiding areas of a garden and creating intrigue about what lies behind them.