Great Pergola Plants

Some great vines that will do very well on your pergola:

- 'Bower of Beauty' pandorea (Pandorea jasminoides) with pink flowers through summer, and its cousin, the white-flowered `Lady Di'.

- Mandevilla 'White Fantasy' or pink `Alice Du Pont'.

- Hardy evergreen native sarsparilla (Hardenbergia violacea) has purple pea flowers in late winter and early spring.

- Rose 'Pierre de Ronsard' with soft, many-petalled pink and white blooms.

- Orange trumpet creeper (Pyrostegia venusta) produces masses of orange tubular blooms in early winter.

- Star jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) has thick, shiny leaves and waves of perfumed white flowers through the warmer months. Tough and attractive.

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