Landscaping can be a lot of fun. It can also open up new design options, and add amenities, as well as adding value to your property. Landscaping uses many different types of fencing, and acts as a structural feature to your overall design.
Fencing is one of the major design tools in landscaping. It creates spaces, as well as privacy and good architectural lines. If you've seen the advanced landscaping designs with a range of inner fencing and carefully contrived shaping of garden fences, you're looking at a type of space management.
Fences, particularly the ones made of timber and screens, have very practical uses in landscaping. These are particularly popular with landscapers because they're extremely easy to work with and can be tailored to any design idea. Good quality treated pine, for example, can be customized in any garden setting or any house and patio interface.
Most landscapers also need to pay a lot of attention to privacy and security. These necessary aspects of design have to be blended with the overall plan, so fences are very much part of the mix at all levels. It's important in basic landscape planning to ensure a harmonious meeting of materials, features, and functional elements. Timber and steel fences are particularly good for these purposes.
Fences and landscaping design
A typical full spectrum landscape design would for instance include:
* Decorative fencing for gardens
* Tough security fencing and gates for the home
* A boundary fence design
* Privacy requirements in various areas
This may look like a difficult range of choices, but in practice the landscaper will work with the fencing to add to the design:
* The decorative fencing will be timber, a good climate controller for gardens.
* The security fencing will be heavy gauge tube steel, extremely dependable and reliably block access.
* The boundary fence will either be chainwire, a good all-purpose, large area security fence or screen fencing, which provides good privacy all round.
* The specific privacy issues can be dealt with using lattice tops on fences. These lattices are also good for growing the great climbers like roses and bougainvilleas, which complement the garden plan.
Experienced landscapers go straight for top quality materials and colours, because the fences cover a very large surface area, and directly affect lighting. The quality of it is actually a very good indicator of the basic landscape design values. The best fencing won't need much maintenance for decades, and will do its job in the landscape well.
Working with garden fences
The sheer range of uses for fencing and privacy screens around the home and garden needs to be mentioned in context with landscaping.
Uses include:
Light management around the home: Screens, windbreaks and sunblocking fencing can literally improve every aspect of the home environment from cutting air conditioning power bills to saving the family's electronics from heat and turning the patio into a beautiful summer oasis and winter nook.
Garden management: Plants do a lot better with good climate management. A good garden fence can help create the right microclimates for even the fussiest plants, keep out weed seeds and protect the lawn from summer's ferocious attacks on root systems.
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