Climbing plants for pergolas are often used for decoration. These plants are not only able to give comfort and beauty, to protect from the cold wind and driving rain, but also hide any design flaws.
A huge amount of curly ornamental plants pleases us with fragrant flowers. They have an unusual shape and colors of the leaves. They, with proper care, grow quickly, and there are annual and perennial species. Thanks to them, our gardens, gazebos and houses become magical. With the help of climbing plant site becomes more individual and unique.
But there are few rules when growing them:
Plants for pergolas, gazebos, home or outbuildings are many and varied. If you start to list their names, it may take a long time. We want to introduce you to main representatives.
These monoecious and dioecious vines are more prevalent in East Asia. In most countries there are 5 kinds of valuable plants with large leaves, fragrant flowers and surprisingly tasty, tender fruits.
These plants love well drained soil with a neutral pH. If there is a stagnation of ground water, they will not grow under any circumstances. Seed propagation is usually used for selection purposes. But in most practices, vegetative propagation is used.
If you want your plant to well tolerate the winter, and increase productivity and durability make pruning and shaping. Do not let the crown to thicken. Do pruning in late May-early June. Early pruning will weaken the plant.
The most widely used are Amur grapes. Even spring buds on this plant looks very beautiful: pale green, fluffy and have a pink tint. Emerging leaves painted in green and red and green colors. By the end of summer the cover turn into a rich dark green color. With the arrival of autumn, leaves of Amur grapes turn red and bright orange.
Male and female flowers are located on different shoots. The berries are used in any form: fresh, processed or dried. Can reproduce by seed, but it’s better to do it with the help of cuttings and branches.
Russian amateur gardeners especially liked 2 types of grapes: Japanese and maple-leaf grape. They are extremely beautiful in the form of leaves. These species grow very quickly. If you have a small area of land, but really want to decorate it with creepers, use miniature winter tolerant grapes: Lydia, Russian Concord, Bui-Tur, Isabella, Alpha Black.
Virginia creeper grapes is a climber, reaching 15 meters or more. It produces yellow and reddish shoots, which later turn green. Leaves have a length of 12 cm. Dark green leaves in autumn are carmine-violet and don’t fall off for a long period of time.
The fruits are bluish-black and inedible. Annual growth reaches the length of 2.3 meters. These plants for pergolas grow well in any soil, in full sun and in the shade, gas resistance. Practically they don’t expose to disease and pests.
Widely used for landscaping not only pergolas, arbors, but also balconies along the brick and concrete walls.
Its genus contains about 180 species, distributed in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere. Goldflame can be evergreen and deciduous, erect and curly. There are species with edible fruits and with beautiful fragrant flowers.
For all its beauty and tenderness of this plant is unpretentious to the soil, makes a good shade. It’s very persistent for transplanting, pruning, crown, and doesn’t get sick. It can be propagated by seeds or cuttings, tap.
They do like bees. In recent years, more gardeners are planting Goldflame vines with edible fruits.
These fragrant vines are particularly popular and loved. The vegetation starts early and ends late autumn. Pleases the gardeners with fragrant flowers of different colors and beautiful fruits.
Chinese magnolia vine grows along rivers, in mixed coniferous-deciduous forests of the Far East. Widely used in the suburban areas in the form of decorative hedges. They climb up to 15 meters in length, trunk diameter of 2.5 cm.
Summer and spring leaves of this plant are light green, autumn are bright yellow and bright orange. Chinese magnolia vine flowers are very fragrant, white, gathered at 3-5 in the leaf axils. Its berries are edible. They are acidic, juicy and have a smell of lemon.
Chinese magnolia vine is a medicinal plant, used as a tonic and stimulant.
Lemongrass shows its beauty with the onset of autumn, when covered with numerous colorful fruits.
The shooting needs a good moisture and a shade. If they get it, they become powerful and in the second year of life begins to branch.
It is a huge cucurbita family, that is not only used as edible plants, but also medicinal and ornamental uses. This family boasts a large patterned leaves through which arbor is protected from prying eyes. But intricacy leaves creates a sense of light.
Ornamental fruits are very interesting, have a variety of shapes and colors. It has colored fruits. In the place of the stalk fruit is green and in flower place finish – orange. 2 colors do not merge with each other, and gives a very interesting effect.
Lablab purpureus is an annual plant with colorful and fragrant flowers.
These plants are annuals for pergolas. Their name –means Egyptian black beans, hyacinth beans.
For pergolas, plant the seeds directly in the ground, around the second half of April and in early July they will delight you with their blooms.
Its leaves are dark green with purple tint colors are various shades of purple and a magical aroma.
Lablab purpureus have very large violet-blue beans in the autumn
It’s hard to find another plant that could compete with its beauty and abundance of color, like blue morning glory. This herbaceous annual vine is unmatched. Can be grown using seed or seedling.
If the weather allows, it will delight you with its flowering for 2 months.
Trumpet vines – climbing vine that has beautiful decorative leaves and orange with shades of red flowers collected in the inflorescence. The flowering season is from July to September.
