When I lived in Brazil for two years, I got to know the Brazilian tradition of hammocks. They're so ubiquitous there that people embed hooks into the walls of their porch or even the walls of their indoor rooms so that they can attach a hammock. We couldn't do that here, but we decided to make something similar, a wooden hammock stand for our backyard:
That wasn't the end of our plans however. Back at our last house, we built a pergola on our back porch.
Though we never managed to grow a plant, we had dreams of growing wisteria up into the pergola that would look like the wisteria tunnels in Japan.
Sadly, we moved away before we could even get started on such a project, but here in Houston we're trying to achieve a slightly toned down version of that same dream. We're growing wisteria on our hammock stand.
Each year since we planted it, it's been improving, and this year is the first year that it is starting to look like what we dreamed of. Here's some pictures to check out and see what you think.
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