Whether you are looking for an ultra-modern style or a more traditional one, there is a metal pergola to blend in with your garden.

Pergola Designs and Styles

The beauty of metal is that it can be moulded into quite intricate designs, making an attractive frame for your climbing plants.  These are usually the wrought iron structures, which lend themselves to a more traditional garden.

With the more modern designs, they are smoothly crafted, being a structural design feature in themselves.

Take a look at some examples.

Greenfingers supply probably the best range, having some basic and more intricate designs, including this intricate rust resistant steel pergola, which looks stunning with climbing plants draped over it.


They also have metal arches with planters, seated arbours and powder coated metal tree seats, and other wrought iron arches.  There are some very delicate and ornate structures to be found here.

Their site is well worth some in-depth research.

These pergola pictures link to other metal and wrought iron pergolas.

The last image, showing the standard arch, is actually a modular section and can be added to with any number of additional sections to give you the size of the pergola you would like.  So for around £100 you could make a really quite long walkway pergola, with beautiful climbers on each upright.

If you'd like an free-standing pergola canopy or an attached pergola canopy, here are a couple of pergola awnings with retractable shades...

The Rowlinson Lattina Canopy and the Rowlinson St. Tropez Canopy.




All come in kit form and are relatively easy to assemble.  Having another pair of hands, however, is helpful - one to hold and one to fit the parts together.  For even the more complex designs, an hour or two should see it finished, in all its glory! 

And then the planting can begin:

Climbing Plants

Climbing plants not only look good but can smell fantastic too.  And there is such a huge range to choose from that you are almost spoilt for choice!




Use different colours, shapes and textures to create a truly amazing display.  Get ideas and advice.






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