Now that’s a pergola, and not a pagoda! There are definite differences, although both will look lovely in your garden. In fact, that’s what we’re focusing on with this post – beautiful accessories and features for the outdoors. So what is the history of the the pergola? Well, first lets be sure we all know what one is. A pergola, also sometimes known as an arbour, is a structure that forms a shaded walkway or seating area. It can also be an extension of a building or form a kind of passageway between two structures. The structure of pergolas are formed of vertical posts or pillars that quite often support cross beams and a sturdy open lattice. We’ve all seen those beautiful examples in Italy with vines trailing from them – well, this is what they’re designed for! They were historically made from stone, brick and wood.  Image from italianencounters.com The word comes from the Latin pergula, which refers to a projecting eve. It was first mentioned in an Italian context by John Evelyn while in Rome in 1645, and was then later the term was used in an English fashion in 1654. Pergolas fell from fashion in the 18th and 19th centuries, when a more naturalistic gardening style was all the rage. However, they started to creep back in during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when garden designers such as Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll incorporated them into their landscapes. Thomas Mawson designed the extensive and attractive pergola that appears at the gardens of The Hill in Hamstead, for client W.H Lever. So how about the modern pergola? Well, materials now often include wood, fibreglass and aluminium, since they are more affordable than brick or stone. Wooden pergolas make beautiful additions to gardens. In the example below, we created this cockscrew shaped compound curved pergola in order to add a distinctive wow factor to the approach to the main entrance. The idea behind the structure is that it draws you in and up to the main house’s front door. Another example of a stunning pergola designed by English Oak Buildings: A pergola is an outdoor garden feature forming a shaded walkway, passageway, or sitting area of vertical posts or pillars that usually support cross-beams and a sturdy open lattice, often upon which woody vines are trained.[1] The origin of the word is the Late Latin pergula, referring to a projecting eave.
As a type of gazebo, it also may be an extension of a building or serve as protection for an open terrace or a link between pavilions. They are different from green tunnels, with a green tunnel being a type of road under a canopy of trees. Pergolas are sometimes confused with "arbors," as the terms are used interchangeably. Generally, an "arbor" is regarded as wooden bench seats with a roof, usually enclosed by lattice panels forming a framework for climbing plants; in evangelical Christianity, brush arbor revivals occur under such structures.[2] A pergola, on the other hand, is a much larger and more open structure. Normally, a pergola does not include integral seating. Pergola covered in bougainvillea Pergola covered in ornamental grapevine Alley with grapevine-covered pergola in the centre of Koilani village, Cyprus A pergola is a garden feature forming a shaded walkway, passageway, or sitting area of vertical posts or pillars that usually support cross-beams and a sturdy open lattice, often upon which woody vines are trained. As a type of gazebo, it may also be an extension of a building or serve as protection for an open terrace or a link between pavilions. Pergolas may link pavilions or extend from a building's door to an open garden feature such as an isolated terrace or pool. Freestanding pergolas, those not attached to a home or other structure, provide a sitting area that allows for breeze and light sun, but offer protection from the harsh glare of direct sunlight. Pergolas also give climbing plants a structure on which to grow.[3] In 1498, Leonardo da Vinci decorated the Sala delle Asse of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan to give the illusion of the great square and vaulted reception hall being within a pergola that was made up of the intertwined branches of sixteen huge mulberry trees.[4] The novel project was commissioned by the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza. Green tunnelsA green tunnel trained on modern materials, Mirabellgarten, Salzburg Pergolas are more permanent architectural features than the green tunnels of late medieval and early Renaissance gardens that often were formed of springy withies—easily replaced shoots of willow or hazel—bound together at the heads to form a series of arches, then loosely woven with long slats on which climbers were grown, to make a passage that was both cool, shaded, and moderately dry in a shower. At the Medici villa, La Petraia, inner and outer curving segments of such green walks, the forerunners of pergolas, give structure to the pattern that can be viewed from the long terrace above it. La fr:Charmille de fr:Pitet à fr:Fallais : The hornbeams of the 180-meter-long Pitet bower from the nineteenth century are included in the fr:Braives classified property list, province of Liège, Belgium (1942) The origin of the word is the Late Latin pergula, referring to a projecting eave.[5] The English term was borrowed from Italian. The term was mentioned in an Italian context in 1645 by John Evelyn at the cloister of Trinità dei Monti in Rome[6] He used the term in an English context in 1654 when, in the company of the fifth Earl of Pembroke, Evelyn watched the coursing of hares from a "pergola" built on the downs near Salisbury for that purpose.[7] Historical gardensThe clearly artificial nature of the pergola made it fall from favor in the naturalistic gardening styles of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Yet handsome pergolas on brick and stone pillars with powerful cross-beams were a feature of the gardens designed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll and epitomize their trademark of firm structure luxuriantly planted. A particularly extensive pergola is featured at the gardens of The Hill in Hampstead (London), designed by Thomas Mawson for his client W. H. Lever. Pergola in Wrocław was designed in 1911 and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2006.[8] Modern pergolas
Contemporary pergola in a square in Benicassim, Spain Modern pergola design materials including wood, vinyl, fiberglass, aluminum, and chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC) rather than brick or stone pillars, are more affordable and are increasing in popularity. Wooden pergolas are made either from a weather-resistant wood, such as western red cedar (Thuja plicata) or, formerly, of coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens). They are painted, stained, or use wood treated with preservatives for outdoor use. For a low maintenance alternative to wood, the contemporary materials of vinyl, fiberglass, aluminum, and CPVC can be used. These materials do not require yearly paint or stain like a wooden pergola would, and their manufacture can make them even stronger and longer-lasting than a wooden pergola.
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