Pavilions, Arches, Pergolas
Arbors, arches, pergolas – all these “small architectural forms” are used for beautification and decoration of your garden or backyard area.
Before installing the arches, pergolas and arbors it is better to think about it, to develop a plan of the site and its style yourself or with the help of a professional designer. All small architectural forms must be beautiful and comfortable, organically fit into the landscape design of your garden, be pleasing for the eye.
The gazebo should have a beautiful view on a flower bed or garden. On a hot summer day, it is a pleasure to go to the reservoir through the arch, overgrown with vines and relax in the shade of beautiful arbors or pergolas. It should be noted, that you should especially consider climate change and how arches, arbors and pergolas will look like in winter. This may be crucial for outdoor design.
Arbor is usually located far from the house to make it convenient to lay the table in the gazebo in a shady spot under the trees. There are very diverse types of arbors. They can be round, square, six or octagonal shape, in accordance with the chosen style of landscape design area, garden. As a rule, the bench is set on the perimeter of the gazebo, while there is a table in the middle. There can also be a grill or an outdoor fireplace. The floor in the arbor can be ground, wood, or concrete. There are also very diverse materials of construction for the gazebo, including wood, metal, brick, plastic, etc. Arbor can be open and glazed. Having a gazebo will give you nice opportunity to hide from the heat under the canopy of gazebo for a long time to relax and enjoy the beauty of your garden.
Arch is a vaulted structure, the overlap of stone (marble), iron, and wood, overgrown with creepers. You can install it in any convenient place in the garden plot. It looks wonderful at the entrance to the garden. If you have a small garden, an arch will decorate and visually enlarge its height. Typically, such a structure is designed specifically for planting a variety of climbing plants. It would be a good idea to decorate arch with some decorative vine or jasmine. This will help you get a shady and cool corner in the garden. A fragrant rose, clematis and honeysuckle will make you and your guests not only to stop and admire the beauty of the garden, but will help you enjoy the wonderful aroma throughout the summer.
Pergola is a lightweight, wooden or metal structure made of several interconnected arches. Earlier in the south they were used in the cultivation of the vine. In fact, pergola, as a distant relative of the arbor, is twined with green roofs or corridors. Pergolas not only decorate the garden, keep you cool in summer, protect from the wind but can also help in organizing the space of a garden plot. With pergolas you can divide the area in several parts or vice versa, to join a recreation area with the house.
