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and I agree with every word. nice fence too but better plants ;o)

Surprising how colour can make plants look better.

Thanks Homebird. I did a blog on that border back in November 2010, showing how it changed over the course of a growing year.

I so agree with you Andrew. All our garden fencing is painted Forest Green. Did you paint your neighbours side too? My experience is that it 'dribbles' through the gaps, which means it leaves you with little choice but to paint both sides.

I love green, my favourite colour too :O) makes a huge difference to the garden really good and much better on the eye. :O)

Waddy - no, I leave it to them. While I was painting my side, the wife came out and said her children (two teenagers, and one about ten year old) were complaining about the orange colour. I suggested she gave them each a paint brush, but did not think that was a good idea!

Oh, you're a hard man Andrew.

Waddy - this is the woman who wanted me to cut down all the shrubs in my garden because she couldn't see to reverse out onto the road (reversing on to a main road is illegal in any case).

HB - she was out there with the paintbrush this afternoon, "multi-tasking" while a meal was cooking. I had visions of her stirring the food with a paintbrush to give her children their greens!

lol Andrew, so long as she didn't paint the fence with gravy!

I've only got two panels in my fence, newly installed - the rest is plastic-covered chicken wire. There's an old fence on the other side, but that's painted or weathered dark brwon.

Green fences do expand the horizon, making the edges blend rather than highlight the sometimes small size.

I was toying with the idea of getting tall chicken-wire fence and attaching reed screens or similar to block my view of the neighbours - a solid fence would do that, but would be a tad expensive to replace if we get more storms. The wire fence should be strong enough to stand up, letting the wind through, and there should be enough small gaps in the screen to allow air movement - and if it does get pulled down, I just need to get another to replace it. hope!

I do agree with you Andrew, that orange fencing is one of my pet hates. As you say the green compliments the plants so much more, it also makes the garden look much bigger.