What Finishes a Pergola Is Not the Carpentry but What Climbs It

Veranda has gathered twenty-eight climbing plants that flower, each of them suited to a fence line, a run of lattice or the overhead frame of a terrace. The appeal is the one every exterior photograph proves: a bare post reads as construction, and the same post with bloom running up it reads as a garden. For the properties this desk follows, from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, the built edges of a lot are what a visitor meets first, and a vine is the softest way to settle a new structure into its grounds. It also puts color where a house otherwise offers only stucco, paint and stone. The list is a reference for anyone deciding what should be growing on the pergola before the first guests arrive.

With reporting from Veranda.