Garden 'partition' ideas?

tizzle6560

We have a narrow-ish but long (85ft) garden and I'm thinking about ways to partition it or add a divider roughly about half way up.

The reason behind this is that the first half of the garden has been done up nicely with a pergola-covered patio area, nice flower beds etc., and the second half has the veg patch and some old brick outbuildings at the very back. not the prettiest

I was thinking about using wooden palettes stacked on their side to create a screen of sorts, but happy to hear about any other ideas people may have? Thanks!

27cool

Oh yeah! Wooden pallets will make a really beautiful partition.
Almost any other type of fencing will look better than that.

spadoosh

Im planning something similar. Going to have two offset fruit hedges.


If youve got the pallets instead of having ugly pallets, get some white paint and cut them up into picket fencing. I got the impression you wanted to make it look prettier than an allotment, using pallets will not do that.

tizzle6560

spadoosh wrote: »

Im planning something similar. Going to have two offset fruit hedges.


If youve got the pallets instead of having ugly pallets, get some white paint and cut them up into picket fencing. I got the impression you wanted to make it look prettier than an allotment, using pallets will not do that.

I was going to paint them up for sure although we quite like the rustic charm of wood/palettes etc. We'll also be adding hanging plant pots , lanterns etc

27cool

tizzle6560 wrote: »

I was going to paint them up for sure although we quite like the rustic charm of wood/palettes etc. We'll also be adding hanging plant pots , lanterns etc

Rustic charm! Right, whoever designed wooden pallets, would have obviously had their "rustic charm" in mind. Though they do say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I think we're going to have to agree to differ on this one.

phil24_7

I would put some closeboard/featheredge, hit and miss or a simple high picket fence.

spadoosh

tizzle6560 wrote: »

I was going to paint them up for sure although we quite like the rustic charm of wood/palettes etc. We'll also be adding hanging plant pots , lanterns etc

A nice fence made from pallets (rustic too).



Pallets used to make a fence.



I do like cheap, but then you can just add a bit of work and it doesnt have to look cheap. Id say a veg patch looks prettier than some propped up pallets.

In terms of pretty i would go
1. Hedge
2. Veg patch (do nothing)
3. Wood fence (of the picket variety) or any generic type fencing
4. Brick buildings (do nothing)
5. Next door neighbours trampoline
6. pallets on their side


How about weaving some hazel/willow?

andrewf75

I would use trellis panels with climbers growing on them. Or just plant some trees/shrubs.

Grenage

There's always the option of ivy, which can be grown up a trellis (or pallets). It makes a pretty decent screen.

getmore4less

shame you missed the Wilco garden sale they were doing screens really cheap. 4mx2m bamboo or willow for < £10. (went down to £4.50 in some stores))

Depending how high and how much you want to screen the good from the not so good, you may want to consider putting in decent strong 100mm posts that you can attach other stuff to and play with ideas along the separation line

if doing veg, what about just having your beans/peas/sweet peas etc long that line, or fruit canes, or hops or other climbing plants that will screen off.

tizzle6560

getmore4less wrote: »

shame you missed the Wilco garden sale they were doing screens really cheap. 4mx2m bamboo or willow for < £10. (went down to £4.50 in some stores))

Depending how high and how much you want to screen the good from the not so good, you may want to consider putting in decent strong 100mm posts that you can attach other stuff to and play with ideas along the separation line

if doing veg, what about just having your beans/peas/sweet peas etc long that line, or fruit canes, or hops or other climbing plants that will screen off.

Some good ideas there. Will definitely be fixing in some posts for support and rigidity. Wind in the garden can be pretty strong at times!

Will also definitely be growing some manner of fruit/veg in/around it.

Another question - what ground prep would anyone suggest? I was thinking of removing the top layer of grass, putting down a layer of weed protect and then laying the palettes over that. Anything else we should do? And securely digging in the posts obviously.