Discover the different types of garden fencing and choose the perfect style for your garden. From enhanced privacy, durability, and aesthetic appeal, learn how to transform your garden today!
Wooden Panel Fencing
Wooden panel fencing is excellent for privacy since the overlapped closeboard and featheredge panels create a solid screen that blocks out sightlines from neighbouring properties and pavements. This helps make your garden feel like a true extension of your home. The fence's solidity also improves your security since the robust panels, capped tops, concrete or timber posts, and gravel boards form a clear perimeter that’s hard to climb over.
Timber is also widely available in standard sizes (typically 6ft widths), so replacing damaged panels or extending the run is simple and easy to do. The installation process is also straightforward, too, since the panels slot into posts or are fixed to timber posts. This means that competent DIYers can tackle this small project on their own, and professionals can complete long boundary runs quickly with minimal disruption.
Closeboard Fencing
Closeboard fencing is ideal for UK gardens because it combines toughness, privacy, and a traditional look together. Closeboard fencing is built from overlapping vertical featheredge boards that are fixed to horizontal arris rails that are supported by sturdy timber or concrete posts.
This type of fencing forms a dense, weighty barrier that can withstand harsh wind and rain. Unlike lightweight panel systems, closeboard fencing is built on-site, so that each bay can be tightened, braced, and aligned to suit your garden's condition.
When pressure-treated components are used, closeboard fencing can resist rot and insect attacks for years. Concrete morticed posts and concrete gravel boards can extend this factor further by removing the timber's ground contact.
Therefore, if any damage occurs, the individual boards, rails, or even a single bay can be replaced without dismantling the entire run.
Closeboard fencing is also extremely adaptable. Builders can install closeboard fencing along sloping or uneven ground and around awkward corners. Closeboard fencing can also accentuate your existing plants, trees or hedges, and this type of fencing can be stained to match your decking and shed.
Picket Fencing
Picket fencing is a great, practical fencing choice for gardens, especially front gardens. The classic, evenly spaced pales create a friendly, neighbourly boundary that clearly separates your garden from the pavement or adjoining plots and keeps your sightlines open for natural surveillance and kerb appeal.
This openness also benefits plants since sunlight and air can easily pass through. Picket fencing also reduces shade and mildew around your borders and discourages trampling.
Additionally, FSC/PEFC-certified softwood pickets are a more renewable, low-carbon boundary compared to masonry or metal options. Because the loads are lower than solid panels, picket runs also cope better with wind since there's less stress on exposed posts, and you’re less likely to lose sections of your fencing during a storm. For homeowners who are looking for a cost-effective fence that enhances their garden's appeal, picket fencing is a timeless, weather-resistant solution.
Lattice or Trellis Fencing
Lattice or trellis fencing is a versatile way to add privacy, structure and greenery to your garden without sacrificing light. The biggest advantage of lattice fencing is its filtered screening. The open pattern softens your sightlines from neighbours while still letting sun and air flow freely, which is perfect for small or north-facing plots that would otherwise feel boxed in by solid panels.
When they are used as toppers, trellis panels are a cost-effective way to upgrade your existing boundary since they raise your garden's height. Trellis fencing is also the ideal framework for roses, clematis, jasmine and honeysuckle, which can be used to transform a plain boundary into a thriving screen that improves biodiversity and supports pollinators and nesting spots.
You can also choose from square, diamond, or decorative trellis patterns and install them as full-height screens, pergola sides, or 300-600 mm toppers on closeboard or panel fences. You can also use trellis to separate your garden into segments for plants, greenery and decking areas. Additionally, because the open pattern relieves wind pressure, trellis also holds up better than solid fencing on exposed sites, and it helps reduce storm damage.
At Westbys Fencing, we can supply and fit a range of timber fences in Chorley, Preston and Bolton. Our services include closeboard, panels, picket, and trellis. We aim to install weather- and rot-resistant fences that transform your garden into a safe haven.
