Outdoor pergola with vines

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Whether you enjoy spending time in your backyard year round, or you only venture out there during the summer, a patio cover is well worth the investment. From inexpensive to extravagant, here are 35 stylish ideas worth considering.

Create a shaded sanctuary in your garden.

Transform even the smallest spaces!

A description and photos of the top ten plants to use on patio covers including vines for shade and privacy, color, and fragrance.

The front entrance to my new apartment building in Exeter NH was flanked by an arbor with 10 huge climbing hydrangea vines, about 20 years old. Gorgeous in full bloom, a home for nesting birds all year, it was welcoming even in winter when the strong trunks had a presence. Then management in its wisdom decided to redo the entrance to improve drainage, and some landscape architect decided the vines must go. What's a devastated artist to do except make a collage? Fortunately I had taken many…

These attached pergola ideas, including a pergola garage attachment or a shading pergola on a porch or patio, add comfortable outdoor living space.

One of the more elegant ways to have a garden is to add climbing plants, climbing flowers or vines. Here are the top 14 climbing plants and flowers.

Yesterday I mentioned I use black mulch with my plants to make the green leaves and colorful blooms pop. It got me thinking that using black outdoors is jus ...