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A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants
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Such a framework employed to provide shade, especially over a patio.
Examples of pergolas in a Sentence
It's perfect for arches, pergolas, walls or climbing into a tree.
Timber Garden Construction - Design and build a range of timber garden structures such as decking, pergolas and arbors.
Some grow freely in cold, poor soil, and are excellent on pergolas or climbing up old tree stems and bold fences.
It is also suited for covering porches, pergolas, and arbours, and in late summer and autumn, when every long drooping branch is thickly hung with small orange-scarlet berries, it is pretty.
It is useful for covering a wall quickly for summer effect or for arbours, trellises, and pergolas, and thrives in almost any soil in shade or sun.
Besides giving a beautiful covering for houses, pergolas, etc., the Wistaria is of great value in other ways, and can be grown on trees.
The plant is a cross with a Dijon Tea, and of freely rambling habit, well suited to pillars, arches, pergolas, and either to train against tree-trunks or pegged along the ground.
The plant climbs freely, and lends itself to pretty uses upon walls, pergolas and banks; it should have a sunny and sheltered place.
Spinovitis Davidi Thomsoni - A pretty and neat-growing species climbing by its tendrils, and of graceful effect upon pillars and pergolas.
Whilst some vines are valuable for the walls of houses, others may be used for covering arbours, pergolas, the pillars of verandahs, old tree stumps, or sloping banks.
You can also use awnings or pergolas to give a little shade.