This
year’s flower and garden shows were awash with decorative fencing panels used
to great effect as stylish borders and screens.
This
echoes the fact that fences are no longer seen as basic necessities to mark a
boundary but, rather, as a stylish statement in their own right.
The
right fence can add a complementary, or contrasting, element to a planting
scheme, and entirely transform a garden.
The
RHS Chelsea Flower Show, for example, showcased a number of show gardens using
fence panels with bold, straight double slatted panels which work beautifully
to enhance the modernist, urban theme that was popular this year. The sleek
lines worked well with the concrete and structural plants such as alliums that
were used.
The
same style was also used in more traditional, cottage style schemes to heighten
the effect of the frothy, relaxed planting of plants such as cottagey foxgloves
and blousy roses.
Whichever
style you favour, the look can be easily and simply recreated in your own
garden, with the Double Slatted Panel from Forest Garden. This pressure
treated, six-foot fence panel is substantial and stylish, and will give your
garden the Chelsea look with minimal effort, transforming the space into a
considered, designed area, instantly updating the look.
If
you want a fence panel that shouts a little bit louder, the Europa Kyoto Screen
has a similarly modern style, but finished with an added flourish of an
attractive, horizontal weave slatted top section. This design would work well
in a garden that encourages climbers to ramble overhead, filling the air with
fragrance.
Forest
Garden’s Decorative Panels range has an extensive variety of styles, each of
which will give your garden an instant makeover, as well as show garden appeal.
