Glazed passage: beautiful flower roof
Rose arches are pure romance - and very trendy: Climbing roses have sold better than ever in the past year. If you connect several arches, then it becomes a haunted pergola. The paths lead under flower garlands, which filter the sunlight. In the garden of the Glaser family they smell partly sweet with ripe grapes and partly fresh like a flower meadow in spring. The lockers there have been made by a locksmith from four by four centimeters thick galvanized steel pipes made to measure.
In the early summer, the light tunnels that lead to the house are covered with delicate floral veils of the roses 'City of York' and 'Snowgoose', which are interwoven with the Italian Clematis vitalba 'Alba Luxuriens' (see photo).
The second arcade is covered by roses and clematis in pink tones. The substructures for pergolas, made of wood or steel, you can also buy in specialized stores. First, the supports must be embedded in the ground. Then the plants are added. Climbing roses usually develop strong, stiff shoots that shoot straight up.
Usually, after a couple of years, the flowers are piling up at the apex of the arches, and the sides remain bare. To prevent this, the young, flexible shoots are spirally placed around the supports and some of them are almost horizontally tied to the crossbars. Thus, on the top of the prickly rods many new flowering shoots emerge, closing the pergola all around. Clematis weave their soft shoots in between. Their roots must never be exposed to the blazing sun. That's why they put them between other plants that shade them.
