| Do have a spot in your house where the sun is just | | | | that for you too. A deciduous plant will loose all its |
| too hot? It seems to blast your house wall and | | | | leaves in the winter and allow the sun through and |
| window with a scorching heat every afternoon. You | | | | then grow a dense foliage in the summer keeping the |
| have to keep the curtains drawn or install shutters | | | | hot sun off our house. |
| outside to keep it out. It is a shame to have a | | | | So now we have a delightful area along side our |
| window in a house and then lock it up so it is virtually | | | | house in which we could incorporate some more |
| unusable. There are other options to keep that side | | | | growing things. If you have a nice shady area you |
| of the house cool and still enjoy the light and view of | | | | could have a lovely fernery underneath. Grow some |
| the window. One of these is to install a pergola on | | | | exotic plants under there picked especially to suit the |
| that side of the house. | | | | conditions. Now you have lovely area where we can |
| It is not much good having a pergola if that is all you | | | | sit in the shade or potter in our fernery out of the |
| have because there is no real benefit. All you have is | | | | hot sun. We can gather our harvest of grapes or |
| a few pieces of lumber on top with no shade effect | | | | whatever as they hang down inviting us to taste. |
| at all. We need to have something over our pergola | | | | Cover the ground with some colorful pebbles and |
| to give us shade and relief from the hot sun which is | | | | incorporate stepping stones for a walkway. The |
| our aim after all. The best way to do that is to grow | | | | windows are now free from heavy curtains and |
| something on our pergola. If you like decorative | | | | shutters so we can enjoy this little garden from |
| plants there are lots of climbers that would soon | | | | inside too. |
| cover your pergola and give you shade. If you prefer | | | | All in all, for very little trouble, we have created a |
| something practical then you could grow climbing fruit | | | | delightful area where we can sit on a hot day and still |
| like grapes or passion fruit or something similar. If you | | | | enjoy some fresh air. So get building and planting and |
| need shade in the summer but would prefer open | | | | you will soon enjoy the fruits of your harvest. |
| sun in the winter then there are plants that will do | | | | |