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March 11, 2009
Fence
My backyard fence needs immediate replacement. I would like to replace it with nice quality fence beyond HomeDepot's offering. Is anyone familiar with a quality landscaping or fence company?
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There is a fence distributor on 3rd Ave & approx. 13th St., however I'm not sure that they install.
Posted by: Giovanna at March 11, 2009 8:33 PM
Dig on Atlantic Ave landscaped my yard and built a beautiful custom cedar fence. Here's a link to the pics when it was Garden of the Day.
http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/12/got_a_garden_sp.php#more
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at March 12, 2009 8:20 AM
HI DIB, did they build that wooden flower box on your terrase as well? That is exactly what we want to add to our back garden, but at ground level. Gorgeous garden!
Posted by: Turtlejam19 at March 12, 2009 12:05 PM
Beautiful selection (Long Island, but ships):
http://www.waysidefence.com/tables_cedar_fence.html
More beautiful (more expensive) selection (cross-country, but ships):
http://www.prowellwoodworks.com/galleries/gallery_3.htm
Still in midst of my personal hunt to find local source for most beautiful fences: traditional Japanese garden.
Posted by: vinca at March 12, 2009 12:38 PM
I had a new wood board-on-board fence with a lattice top installed last year by Amendola Fence from Long Island. They did a great job, handled a tricky issue (neighbor's tree on border of my property) very aesthetically, and didn't trample the flowers. Competitively priced, too.
Posted by: Back40 at March 12, 2009 1:31 PM
No, Susan from Sketch and Hammer built the deck and the box...but Dig built the box on the ground for my vegetables. It's probably nicer than the one on the deck, too.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at March 12, 2009 4:53 PM
Vinca,
If you find the Japanese garden fence, etc. that you like, please share, share, share!
We were at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Saturday for the Making Brooklyn Bloom conference and spent some time in the Japanese pavilion. It is truly gorgeous! The fencing is simple and beautiful. It might be copied in the right kind of wood by the right kind of carpenter...who knows. Anyway, it added fuel to a lingering desire to really do a decent Japanese garden after all these years mulling it over.
Since you appear to have been doing research, mayb you can help: For the last couple of years, we've been looking for a bamboo variety that will meet a nubmer of specific needs:
1 Tolerant of some direct sun, partial shade and full-shade (although we could skip the full-shade need and choose another variety for that shaded spot)
2 Able to mingle with already existing tree and shrub roots
3 Blue-ish and keeps the blue-ish cast in shade
4 About 10 to 12 feet tall
5 Of the clumping type if possible but not necessary
6 Possibly deciduous but not necessary
7 Completely hardy to our climate
Any ideas would be appreciated! Am not sure you'll check back on this thread but if anyone does, let Vinca know.
Posted by: BrooklynGreene at March 12, 2009 7:33 PM
Hey Brooklyn Greene! Just saw your post and I'm on the run today, so a quick reply mostly with links (some of which you might already know). I am a dunce when it comes to bamboos. If I had an acre, I might consider a tall grove of mountain bamboo, but for my city garden I'm thinking stone, moss and fern.
But below are three links that might help—a nursery in MA that looks great, the American Bamboo Society, and a general Japanese garden resource: http://www.bamboos.com/index.html
http://www.americanbamboo.org/GeneralInfoPages/BarnhartIntro.html
http://www.jgarden.org/default.asp
Links that are off your topic, but dear to my heart, are archival photos of the BBG Hill and Pond Garden, an obituary for BBG gardener Frank Okamura (need I say, the man, not the obituary) and the Saiho-ji Garden, which I wish (right...in my wildest dreams) to echo in my own backyard. Though I am far from a minimalist inside the home, and though I love deep woods and lush overgrowth, when I was a child the BBG still had a full size replica of the Ryoan-ji Temple near the children's gardens, which had a lasting influence on my garden aesthetics:
http://www.bbg.org/cgi/hic/hic_search.cgi?&gardenarea=11&digimage=-1
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE2D9173FF937A25752C0A9609C8B63
http://www.phototravels.net/kyoto/zen-gardens-saiho-ji.html
BTW, if you didn't visit the small Shinto shrine up in the back corner of the Hill and Pond garden, it is hidden in plain sight, and lovely. It's shown in archival photo 05454. If you go, clap your hands loudly two times and say a prayer.
Posted by: vinca at March 13, 2009 9:40 AM
friends of mine make furniture, fences, and decks out of sustainable black locust wood.. it is beautiful, durable, and rot resistant. contact me http://gardentypestudio.blogspot.com/
if you are interested to get in contact with them
Posted by: the jibb at August 25, 2009 9:18 PM
I would be happy to provide an estimate for any of your fencing need
Please visit my web site @ bklynfence.com
or call Don @ 718-444-8554
Posted by: Donfenceman at October 3, 2009 11:17 AM
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