Whether to provide shade, zone a garden, or offer privacy, pergola ideas can be crucial to your backyard’s design.

They can also be used to frame pathways or create structure. Considering the pergola’s purpose is crucial to your chosen design.

Will it be a focal point or a transition? Will there be seating under it? Ideally, it should create its statement with lower-lying plants on either side.

Directing the eye upwards by providing interest on the vertical plane is also important to include in your backyard landscaping ideas,

And pergolas are ideal for training various scented, flowering climbing plants and creeping vines for vertical garden ideas.