What a nice pergola! I like the shot of yellow against the white house, too. :0)

Very nice. Thank you for sharing.
Be careful with Eupatorium 'Chocolate'. It reseeds and most of its babies are just like any green weedy Eupatorium with white flowers that you see in the wild. Once they take hold, it is very difficult to remove them. There is one good thing about Eupatorium: it blooms when most perennials have faded for the season.

Great picture .

How do they keep the grass edge from growing into the raised edgers? I have an edge I did with raised edgers and figured is just stay on tip of the grass...but three years later the grass is winning and creeping into the garden. Redoing that area is on my to do list.

I tried eupatorium Chocolata several years ago and it winter killed so haven't invested in another. The garden is lovely. Beautiful pergola.