If you have a gazebo or a pergola in your garden or at the cottage, you must certainly plant beautiful curly plants alongside to decorate it and give yourself a fragrant and picturesque corner. Climbing plants can be annual or perennial, but in the second case you for a few years will get rid of the need to plant anything around their small architectural forms.
The best winding perennials for summer cottages
Weaving plants for the gazebo are many. The first thing that comes to mind is the climbing roses. They incredibly decorate the gazebos and give a unique fragrance.
Beautifully braided arbor and flowers of honeysuckle . They create an extra coolness and exude a pleasant aroma around them. For one summer period only, honeysuckle can grow by 5 meters. In addition, its flowers are an excellent honeycomb. But for the same reason, you need to be careful - in the flowering period, swarms of bees grow around it.
Another curling plant for arbor - tekoma or kampsis. It represents a perennial spreading vine, producing brushes of flowers, similar in form to gramophones. On the arch or pergola, this plant looks very colorful.
It will be useful, beautiful and pleasant to have if you plant actinidia next to the pergola. This plant is a beautiful vine with beautiful heart-shaped leaves, the color of which varies from bronze to bright white, and after flowering they first turn pink and then crimson. Blossoms actinidia with white fragrant flowers.
A habitual and fairly common perennial climbing plant for gazebo is hops. It gives not only a shadow and a coolness, but also has inflorescences with soothing properties. Japanese or climbing hops grow very quickly, in one summer can stretch for 8 meters, wrapping on its way all the supports. Its leaves are lobed, bright green. Hops grow well in shady areas.
Another traditional plant for braiding arbors - grapes. The best variety for such purposes is girlish grapes . It is a multi-leaved vine, very delicate and delicate. In addition, this plant is frost-resistant.
Clematis is just a royal plant! It throws out flowers of different diameters and colors and is perfect for decorating a garden and for embroidering a gazebo or arch.
Another incredibly decorative wandering plant for arches and arbors is wisteria. Luxuriously looks purple, yellow, white wisteria - they seem to plunge us into a fairy-tale world.
Perennial hardy climbing plants
In conditions of the middle and more northern stripes it is extremely important to choose the right perennial so that it does not suffer from winter cold and continues to please us in spite of everything. Such plants include:
- Echinocytosis or "mad cucumber". Many consider this plant a weed, but zealously to remove it from its site is completely irrational, because it is able to beautifully baste the arbor and its scent attract bees, which at the same time pollinate and all other plants on the site.
- Wisteria of the Blue Moon variety is the only variety that has settled down in the northern regions, since it is capable of carrying the temperature down to -30 ° C. Blossoms with beautiful blue flowers.
- Honeysuckle caprylic - is appreciated for fragrant and beautiful flowers, as well as red berries, giving the plant a decorative appearance. Honeysuckle is unpretentious in care and is not afraid of cold weather.
- Evergreen ivy will decorate the arbor not only in the growing season like all other plants, but throughout the year. Liana is unpretentious, always dressed in bright foliage and easily flutters any supports.
- Chinese magnolia vine is an effective plant with a pronounced citrus aroma. Changing from a green to a yellow-orange outfit adorns the gazebo until late autumn.