Your garden is your sanctuary, it is a safe, comfortable place to gather with friends and enjoy nature. A beautiful garden can not only add value to your life, it can add value to your property too. Fencing can cost between £15 – £58 per panel depending on the style and desired overall finish. There are a few more cost-effective options that can be explored before committing to having an entirely new fence installed, depending on how much privacy you are hoping to achieve.
There are four easy ways in which you can achieve more privacy in your garden; fencing, planting, trellis panels, and pergola. You may be looking to create a more tranquil area to relax, a safer environment for children or pets to play, or just looking to have an additional layer around your home to add as a sound buffer to the noise of neighbours or passing cars. Whatever your reasons may be, at Wilfirs, our friendly team has years of experience, specialising in high-quality fence panels, posts, and gates.
You will need to check the UK fence height laws before you undergo any work – unless you are willing to go through the hassle of planning permission. You will also need to ensure that the fence belongs to you and not your neighbours. Fences facing a road or public footpath have a height cap of 1m, while private back garden fences may reach 2m tall – these heights include any toppers or extensions.
Fencing
Fence panels are the most obvious way to add privacy to your garden. Here at Wilfirs, we have three standard fence panel options for you to explore.
- Interwoven panels which are superb for a sleek, traditional-looking space.
- Waney Edge panels are a really strong, durable choice that offers great protection against rot.
- Straight Lap panels are the most popular and common choice as they tend to be the strongest overall option.
Planting
We stock a wide range of planters and troughs, these can be a really elegant way of increasing privacy within a garden without the need for a very tall fence. They are also perfect for anyone who has dogs that enjoy digging up flowers as they make the plants much harder to reach. This option can offer a stunning finish to any garden to have climbing plants such as Ivy, Hydrangea seemannii, and sweet peas arranged within a planter around your garden, allowing them to attach themselves to your existing fence.
Trellis Panels
Trellis panels are the usual go-to option for homes wanting to increase privacy and security within their gardens. They have proven to be an excellent burglar deterrent, as well as being simple to install. We provide wooden, metal, and bamboo panels, which come in a variety of unique patterns as standard, or you can entrust us to design bespoke panels to fit in with your garden design, helping to create a beautiful backdrop to your garden.
Pergola
Pergolas have become popular over the past few years, they can help create a stunning private space, being a much more budget-friendly way to do so rather than fencing the entire garden. Pergolas are great if you just want to make a smaller area within your garden privacy, and are the go-to option for hot tub owners. If you want to create a more private walkway within the garden, then an archway pergola is the most beautiful way to do this, especially if paired with climbing plants.
