Which plant to cover a Pergoda?

Could anyone please advise me as to which plant should i purchase to cover my pergoda?
I would like it to grow quite quickly and not be harmful to pets. I have read somewhere that Morning Glory is harmful to animals. Thanks.

 

Not heard about Morning Glory being poisonous (last year the chickens had a good go at them with no issues).

How about a Clematis? Lots of colours and flowering times to choose from and you could plant one on each side.

 

What about a grape vine? If it's a sunny spot, Bob Flowerdew recommends Boscoop Glory.

Chris

 

The only thing I would say is not to mix more than a couple of climbers on the pergoda. Some need a severe pruning each year, others just a tidy up, but that can be difficult when they are intertwinned amongst each other.

What are you mainly looking for - foliage and cover, flowers?

 

Do you mean pagoda?
Or actually pergola?

A photo would help. for suggestions.

My pagoda is six feet high, I actually have to stop ivy from the adjacent fence trying to grow up it.



Our two pergolas have wisteria.




Our tea-house has the wisteria from the side fence trained round the eaves.



They are quick growers easily "trained" and can produce after a few years if pruned correctly, hundreds of scented blooms in the spring.

 

Afraid I got the wrong end of the stick! I thought, before you posted the picture, that you meant pergola when you meant pagoda!:lollol:I would have thought that it's pretty enough without anything growing on it. Perhaps you'll just have to keep the ivy in check.

Chris

 

I'm getting confused now.

The O.P. mentioned plants for a "pergoda"

I was just trying to work out whether they meant pagoda or pergola.

 

I'd say he meant Pergola!

 

No, I definitely think he means pagoda! That's what the phot shows, anyway.

Chris

 

Whoops! I was getting muddled between Doghouse's picture of his pagoda and Mal's originla post about his pergoda. Perhaps Mal will untangle the confusion for us.

Sorry!

 

I am ssoo confused!! ....pergola...pagoda? which is it?!!

I have a Pergola which has a grape vine growing over it. It looks lovely and you can make wine as well!

Bye the way Doghouseriley how do you get your wisteria looking so lovely - I have one and despite pruning it as advised I get one bloom and thats if i am lucky!! .........do tell me the secret!

 

You may be doing it right, some aren't good at flowering.
Although our biggest one which is now getting on for fifty years old hadn't previously flowered at all for the previous owners of our house, as they never pruned it.

You must prune it no later than January, sometimes I do ours between Christmas and New Year, "for something to do." You have to be ruthless with the pruning and if you prune them too late, they don't produce flowers.

I prune ours back to just either two or four buds on each side shoot.
If you get it right, the blooms appear before the leaves.
I also prune them mid to late summer, removing all the stringers they send out.
They always gets a second rather straggly flowering in late summer.

If you buy a new wisteria, only buy one in bloom. Some garden centres sell, never flower.