How Do You Landscape With A Split Rail Fence?
A split rail fence can provide a beautiful and casual accent along the borders of properties and yards. This type of fence is intentionally friendly since it doesn’t try to keep anything inside or to provide privacy. By establishing a border or property line, the split rail fence creates an opportunity to landscape using the rustic quality of the split rail as a very light visual boundary. Position a garden hose, starting at a corner or end of a split rail fence. The garden hose will naturally create organic curves, which usually look the best with this type of fence. At a corner or end the landscape bed will tend to have a roughly triangular kidney shape. When possible the bed should be large enough to host an ornamental tree, decorative support shrubs and lower perennial flowers or edging plants. By layering a bed from tall (trees) near the back and shorter shrubs and plants toward the front, the resulting bed will produce a lush look. Measure the height of the bottom rail of the fen
