Garden arbors

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Although a garden arbor looks beautiful standing bare and naked over your garden path, it often looks even more beautiful when covered with climbing plants. It can be breathtaking to walk beneath a garden arbor that is covered in fragrant flowers or other plants.

So, what plants will climb up your garden arbor?

First of all, you need to make sure that you have the right plants planted at the base of your garden arbor. Your standard petunia is not going to suddenly decide to climb toward the sky!

There are multiple types of climbing plants that you may consider. Plants like honeysuckle and hop and morning glory will twist and curl up a thin support, while other plants like the climbing rose will not bother with twisting itself around ever little bit and will simply scramble right over your garden arbor.

Other plants grip onto your garden arbor with tendrils like a grape vine. Some plants, like the gloriosa lily, have hook-tipped leaves. Still other plants like English ivy and trumpet creeper have aerial roots. Aerial roots are formed in the air. Then there are stipular thorns like catbrier.

When you start looking around for great climbing plants, you will find that there are climbing types of plants in practically ever group of plants from ferns to lilies.

The next question is: how do you train these plants to start climbing up your garden arbor?

In truth, you do not need to train a climbing plant to climb up your garden arbor. It is only natural for a climbing plant to want to go up! Rather, you simply need to “guide” them up your garden arbor. Make sure they are going where you want them to go. You can also cut off any strays to give your “living” garden arbor a more finished look.

Regardless of whether or not you decide to “train” plants to climb up it, or if you want to leave it as is, a garden arbor is a beautiful addition to most gardens. In fact, because of the beauty of garden arbors, many wedding ceremonies have been performed beneath them.

But even if you do not feel like throwing a huge wedding in your own backyard, a garden arbor is still a lovely piece put over a walkway, at an entryway, over a bench, or elsewhere in your garden.

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