There is an 3 ft. elevated area against one of the property lines where there is a very large shade tree (Maple). That is the patio area. I like the openness of the land, makes mowing and maintaining a breeze. My problem is I’d like to plant a grape arbor and don’t want it to look like a gian structure in the middle of an open space. The land is rectangular, against one long side of the rectangle is my home and the raised patio area, the opposite long side borders the road and is lined with newly planted flowering pear tree’s. On the back narrow border is a barn and chicken coop. That border stretches from the raised area to the tree lined street. The narrow border opposite goes from a double wide driveway (lined with blueberry bushes) to the tree lined street.
How can I add an arbor without it looking out of place in an open lawn?
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I reckon you could make it a focal point and a destination if you made a seating area around it with some sort of mulch and had a couple of benches or chairs and a border of flowers or low growing shrubs. Maybe a smallish tree or two like a redbud on either side. Possibly a mulched path to it from either the driveway or the barn or the house. It would be lovely! But there goes your easily mowed yard. Oh well, I would rather grow grapes and flowers than grass.