The New Garden Fence

We have done something really rather dramatic to our garden. The problem is this, it was not meant to be quite such a big change as it has ended up being. Would you like to see what we have been up to?

We had one fallen fence panel that haf to be replaced, in order to do the work we needed to ask next door for permission to go into their garden. When I popped round to ask we opened one huge can of worms. I was led round to be shown the state of the whole fence, this has never been mentioned to us and I come home feeling rather shell shocked. We knew this had to sort this out.  I could see why she was fed up, the fence was a mess and brambles were growing through, but it had never been mentioned to us. Anyway lets move on from that shall we, Mr MC&W and I found a bottle of wine and rant to each other eased the the pain and we moved forward with the task of sorting it out.

We had just put in a new patio and this shows our messy but privacy protecting hedge.

Here we had a larger boarder put in and removed the conifer

Around came our gardener who does all our larger work, to price up getting rid of all the dreaded brambles, the old fence and to put up a delightful new one. Then we can all be happy neighbours again.

The day of the work came round, it was a beautiful summer morning.  Three of them set to it, pulling brambles, nettles and the old broken fence out. I can not tell you how hard these guys worked, I made sure I provided plenty of tea and encouragement.

The start of the day

Just a few brambles

After a few hours all the area was cleared and the posts were ready to go in. I think we had three large bags of garden waste.

This took all day to do, the guys did not stop. After all the clearing they then were digging holes and concreting the new posts in and making sure the everything was level.

Below is the finished fence, I love this fence as it looks pretty natural and I hope provides a good backdrop for our neighbour. We made sure the border curved round so it looks like it has always been there. We left for the moment a couple of shrubs that should come back, problem is I can not remember what he told me they were!!!

The plants that are to me sticks poking out of the ground

Our slight (I use the word lightly) issue is, we are a very private family. We liked the messy hedge, it was a wildlife haven and it meant we had privacy and now we do not. Please do not get me wrong, our neighbours are delightful and we are very lucky. But we like to potter about in the garden with out people looking in on us, Mr MC&W is 6"6 which adds to the privacy issues. As he can see above most fences, I am 5"1 not effected so much and look confused when he complains.

All that's left a few shrubs that have been cut right back and my arch nemesis a conifer. I detest conifers, no rhyme or reason to this its just I do not like them.

So the next few posts I will be looking at privacy and how we can get this back. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to start again, but I am also filled with fear that maybe I am not up to such an enormous task.