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perennial often used to decorate fences, walls of outbuildings and houses, as well as gazebos. A gazebo, densely covered with decorative greenery, will be an excellent place for solitude or a lush celebration for a noisy company. The greenery will hide from prying eyes everything that happens inside the gazebo, making the atmosphere cozy, and the structure itself original and beautiful. If desired, you can select various perennial climbing plants for the gazebo; descriptions, photos and names of the most popular species are given below.
Criterias of choice
A huge number of different types of climbing perennial plants makes the gardener think about how to choose the best option for landscaping a gazebo. Of course, the primary selection criterion is the decorativeness of the plant. It is also worth emphasizing that perennial plants must be winter-hardy. This will allow you not to worry about the safety and restoration of plantings when spring arrives. The relative unpretentiousness of climbing plants is also important for gardeners who do not want to spend a lot of time and effort caring for them.
All climbing perennials can be divided into evergreen, flowering and fruiting. Moreover, the fruits of some vines are not only edible, but also have an excellent taste and a complex of vitamins.
Evergreen climbing perennials
A gazebo, shrouded in greenery, can always become the highlight of the garden. She personifies the freshness and strength of nature. The absence of lush flowers will not allow the gazebo to “displace” the existing flowering flower beds from the overall garden design, only emphasizing their beauty.
Ivy
Among evergreen climbing plants, ivy is most often used to decorate gazebos and fences. Its advantage is unpretentiousness and high frost resistance. The length of the plant can reach 30 m. Additional shoots and adventitious roots are formed en masse on its main stems. They firmly cling to existing supports, lifting the greens up.
There are 16 different types of ivy, but the most commonly grown ivy in Russia is common ivy because it has exceptional winter hardiness. In the central part of Russia, it does not need to be prepared for winter at all, without fear of freezing. In the northern regions, the plant must be removed from its support and covered with spruce branches for the winter. Common ivy can be grown in lowlands and on rocky soils. The plant is unpretentious in care. The leaves of common ivy are carved, have a dense skin and a shiny glossy surface.
To decorate gazebos, ivy should be planted around the perimeter of the building. Within 2-3 years, climbing plants will cover the entire required area.
Maiden grapes
This climbing perennial has high decorative qualities.Its leaves in the summer season are painted in the usual green color, but with the arrival of autumn their color becomes bright red, which allows you to bring color to an already extinct garden. The length of the shoots of girlish grapes reaches 20 m. The plant is capable of crawling up a support or gracefully hanging from top to bottom. The climbing perennial with its large leaves tightly covers the surface of the gazebo, protecting the interior space from drafts and summer heat.
Maiden grapes are especially popular among Russian gardeners. This is explained, first of all, by its high resistance to freezing. In addition, the climbing perennial is very unpretentious to growing conditions. A small piece of land is enough for him to grow abundant green mass. During the growing period, the plant does not require regular feeding; it is enough to add fertilizer to the hole when planting it.
With the help of this perennial it is easy and simple to decorate a gazebo with your own hands. To do this, it is necessary to plant plants around the perimeter of the building. The perennial is fast-growing, its vines grow by an average of 3 meters per year, which means that within 2 years after planting you can count on the entire surface of the gazebo to be densely covered with beautiful foliage.
When eating such fruits, human mucous tissues get burned.
Hop
This perennial climbing plant is known to many gardeners. Its peculiarity is the rapid growth of shoots, the height of which reaches 7 m. This height is quite enough to cover the gazebo walls and roof.
Common hops have good winter hardiness, however, their disadvantage is that they require care and are susceptible to various diseases. So, once every 2 months, climbing perennial plants need to be fed with mineral or organic fertilizers. The enemy of hops is powdery mildew, which appears as a gray or white coating on the inner surface of the leaf.
This climbing perennial blooms annually. Its female inflorescences are small light green cones. Male inflorescences are represented by unsightly white flowers.
The following perennial climbing plants are great for decorating gazebos with your own hands. It is not at all difficult to plant them along the perimeter of the building, 1 seedling for every 80 cm of the perimeter. They are easy to care for and do not require shelter for the winter.
Blooming perennials
Beautiful climbing vines with lush flowers always attract the attention of passers-by. Curly plants can be used to create flower walls for a gazebo. A structure entwined with such perennials will decorate a green garden.
Wisteria
This climbing plant is a leafy vine. Its length can reach 20 m. Inflorescences up to 30 cm long are formed on the shoots of the perennial plant. A special feature of wisteria is the duration of flowering: inflorescences form in early spring simultaneously with the appearance of leaves and continue flowering until autumn.Along the entire length of the inflorescences, bright small flowers bloom simultaneously in large numbers. Their color, depending on the variety, can be varied: white, pink, blue, lilac. You can appreciate all the fantastic beauty of these stunning perennial plants in the photo.
Wisteria is considered a rather whimsical climbing plant that requires moderate watering, regular feeding and a lot of light. The winter hardiness of the vine is also not too high. Without shelter, wisteria can only withstand short-term frosts at -200C. In the harsh climatic conditions of Russia, wisteria must be covered for the winter with burlap and coniferous spruce branches.
Pruning is of particular importance when growing this climbing perennial. Every year in the spring the vines are pruned, leaving only 30 cm of last year's shoots. This will allow the perennial to bloom profusely on old and new shoots every year. In the fall, after the end of flowering, wisteria is also pruned by 2-3 buds for better formation of flower buds.
Clematis
Clematis are known to many gardeners. They can decorate the surface of any gazebo with lush flowers. The clematis genus includes many varieties and hybrids. They differ in size, doubleness, flower color, and flowering period. Each type of perennial plant requires certain growing conditions. This applies in particular to pruning. So, clematis that bloom on last year's shoots are lightly pruned once every few years. Plants that form flowers only on young shoots are pruned every season, leaving petioles of 20-30 cm.If a perennial climbing plant produces flowers on last year's and new shoots, then it needs to be pruned every fall, leaving 1-1.5 m of shoots.
Growing perennial clematis requires a lot of care and attention. The developed root system of a climbing plant requires a lot of moisture and a sufficient amount of fertilizer. After cutting plants for the winter, clematis shoots must be covered with burlap and spruce branches to prevent freezing.
climbing roses
You can also decorate gazebos in the garden with climbing roses. These gorgeous perennial plants produce greater growth of shoots each year, which allows you to quickly create “living” walls of the structure. Perennials are distinguished by their whimsicality, but their charm makes many gardeners fall in love, which is why in gardens you can so often see arches and arbors entwined with this plant.
Climbing perennial roses are demanding on the composition of the soil. When planting them, several kilograms of manure should be added to the soil and, as the plants grow, additional nitrogen fertilizers should be added to the soil.
The cold resistance of perennial climbing roses is relatively low, so each autumn the shoots must be removed from their supports and covered to prevent freezing. Long vines of roses need to be pruned in spring and autumn. Caring for plants in this way is quite a troublesome task, however, the beauty of gazebos decorated with climbing roses is worth it.
You can learn in detail about how to grow beautiful perennial climbing roses by watching the video:
“Blooming” gazebos always look beautiful and romantic, however, creating them requires a lot of effort and time. That is why this decoration option is more suitable for caring and diligent gardeners.
Green gazebos “tasteful”
Among the frost-resistant climbing perennial plants, there are those that will not only bring aesthetic pleasure and serve as gazebo walls, but will also delight you with a harvest of delicious berries. The category of such climbing perennial plants for gazebos includes vineyard and actinidia.
Vineyard
Making a canopy or gazebo from grapes with your own hands is not at all difficult. To do this, you need to build a reliable frame and plant a vine at its foot. The Amur chokeberry variety or the Russian Concord green grape variety are excellent for decorating gazebos. The Brant grape variety is highly resistant to frost and can also be used to decorate gazebos.
A clear example of how to design a structure using this plant can be seen in the video:
A grape arbor will produce a good harvest only with proper care of perennial plants, which includes regular watering and fertilizing. The rules for pruning and covering the grapevine depend on the variety being grown.
Actinidia
These unique perennial plants are climbing vines whose edible fruits resemble kiwi in appearance and taste. At the same time, the plants are winter-hardy, which means they can be successfully grown in domestic spaces. Planted around the perimeter of the gazebo, actinidia very quickly cover the free space, and in just a few years the length of the perennial plants will reach 30 m.
Actinidia are dioecious perennial plants. To bear fruit in close proximity, it is necessary to plant a female and a male vine at once. It is worth noting that an excellent variety of male flowering type is Actinidia “Adam”. Its leaves have a variegated color: a green leaf blade with a bright pink tip. This feature adds even more decorative value to the perennial climbing plant.
Conclusion
Thus, to decorate gazebos, it is better to use perennial climbing plants, which in a few years will gain sufficient height and form dense walls. Annuals plants will not be able to produce such results in a season. The following types of climbing perennials are the most common in Russia. They can be grown in the southern, central and northern zones of the country, however, to prevent freezing in winter, some types of plants still need to be covered. When growing “living” walls of a gazebo, you should always remember the rules for caring for a perennial plant, since otherwise, all the efforts and efforts aimed at decorating the structure may be wasted.
