Fencing

While its importance as an aspect of garden design is often overlooked, fencing is a vital part of both the aesthetics and useability of your garden. Garden fencing is likely to differ between the front and rear of properties, with higher and more tough timber fencing generally being placed in the rear garden, while the front of the home often utilises smaller sized and more ornamental fencing. Fencing for the front of the home tends to have a low height and large spaces between the wooden slats. Additionally, it is often painted to improve its decorative effect. Fencing in the back garden is commonly used for privacy and to preserve the boundaries of a garden, as well as to keep household pets or other small animals or wildlife either in or out. For this reason, these styles of fences are around 6 feet high and use wooden slats without spaces in between. Due to the increased height, these fences commonly have concrete footings laid between each section to offer strength preventing the fence from blowing over or being broken in high winds. Garden fencing panels are generally constructed from wood. The posts in between the panels are produced from either timber, stone, or concrete. More recently, fence panels have started to be manufactured from heavily recycled and sustainable composite materials such as recycled bamboo.