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Coloured garden fences

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TrendyNannie6 Tue 16-Mar-21 16:17:58

If you have a garden fence which colour is it

B9exchange Tue 16-Mar-21 16:21:02

Mid green so it disappears with the shrubs in front of it.

JaneJudge Tue 16-Mar-21 16:22:54

My neighbour painted hers a dark green and then gave me a pot to paint my side of her fence green, so half of our fence is dark green. The other side needs painting. I would have prefered black fencing tbh but dark green is fine as I really can't be bothered to upset my neighbour over the colour of a fence

JaneJudge Tue 16-Mar-21 16:23:21

Yes, she is quite bossy but she is a good neighbour and it's give and take anyway

Ilovecheese Tue 16-Mar-21 16:24:49

Mid green, makes the garden look bigger

Maggiemaybe Tue 16-Mar-21 16:25:02

Green. Though I'm thinking about casting caution to the wind and painting it blue to match the benches.

Kim19 Tue 16-Mar-21 16:27:07

I'm quite happy with natural but aged wood which I creosote annually.

NotSpaghetti Tue 16-Mar-21 16:30:29

Mine is natural wood colour.
My neighbours have painted their side and (of course) here and there the paint us seeping through.
Very annoying.

My daughter in law painted theirs two shades of blue-gray.
Not my choice.

NotSpaghetti Tue 16-Mar-21 16:31:06

*blue-grey (autocorrect!)

Mollygo Tue 16-Mar-21 16:32:12

Ours is wood coloured-we kept it the way it was when we moved in, give or take a slight variation in the treatment shades.

Ellianne Tue 16-Mar-21 16:36:05

Azure blue. It came up darker than I expected, but looks quite classy

Kate1949 Tue 16-Mar-21 16:41:07

Brown and boring as is all the garden furniture. I'm going to try to persuade DH to paint it blue this year.

Jaxjacky Tue 16-Mar-21 16:44:51

Oops guilty pang here, new fencing erected in the autumn, it’s treated, but not painted/stained yet.

Nonogran Tue 16-Mar-21 17:12:29

Yesterday and today (and likely the rest of this week) I have been painting my fence Golden Harvest! Gosh it's hard work but my chap who would usually do it is elsewhere in the UK & I'm not confident enough to use the sprayer! Previously it was a Red Cedar kind of colour which was very strong and which I never liked. The new colour is softer. I regret I don't have the courage to go blue or green!
My new shed arrives on Thursday which will probably be painted blue and white in a few weeks, after I've had a rest!

BBbevan Wed 17-Mar-21 17:10:01

Black. All fences, oil tank screen and sheds Matt black.

avitorl Wed 17-Mar-21 17:25:08

Mine is Cream and is made of steel, so no upkeep required, and I love it.

Sara1954 Wed 17-Mar-21 19:29:48

Well the fences are fence coloured, but we painted a rendered wall lilac, I’m thinking of buying some matching garden furniture.

LauraNorder Wed 17-Mar-21 19:46:11

Any chance of photos to help those of us who can’t decide.
I’d especially like to see the black BBevan as that’s what I’m thinking of as a nice backdrop to many shades of green.

merlotgran Wed 17-Mar-21 19:47:48

Urban Slate (dark grey). It makes a great background to plants in large pots.

Peasblossom Wed 17-Mar-21 19:53:44

Does it make the garden a bit gloomy merlotgran? I do quite fancy a dark grey but it’s not a big garden, but not a small patio one either.

My fence won’t be covered in climbing plants as I’m trying to cut down on the work.

At the moment it’s three different shades of brown as I’ve had to have it replaced bit by bit over the last couple of years.

I don’t want to hijack the thread but I really need some help?

Witzend Wed 17-Mar-21 20:00:10

Wood-colour here - I wouldn’t say no to a natural looking green though.
I wouldn’t want anything else, especially not black - I loathe anything black in the garden.

merlotgran Wed 17-Mar-21 21:22:19

No it doesn't, Peasblossom because it's a south facing fence. Green foliage looks cooler against it during the summer.

Charleygirl5 Wed 17-Mar-21 22:13:56

My shed is green but my fencing is dark brown. It was green previously but I wanted a change.

A neighbour 2 doors away have painted their fencing and shed a silver-grey and it looks lovely.

Mollygo Wed 17-Mar-21 22:15:45

We painted the garden furniture a sort of soft sage green. If it wasn’t so expensive we’d have painted our brown fence the same colour.

Ellianne Wed 17-Mar-21 22:15:57

If you can look back at "Your garden made perfect" episodes, there was one this month in a disabled lady's garden that explained all about choosing black fences.