The imaginative picket fence that curves around the front patio at Margaret Woodcock and Mike Blankenship's house in Hollywood Park serves as a friendly boundary between patio and lawn, street and home.
Picket fences are merely boundaries.
Short in stature, they're not much of a barrier and with spaces between pickets, they're not meant for privacy. The picket fence is the jovial offspring of the bellicose palisade wall, a fence of tightly-space, sharpened pales that Colonists drove into the ground to fortify settlements. It has surged and waned in popularity since colonial times, but its clean lines have endured. Pickets are especially suited for garden areas because they provide a backdrop and a view beyond. Dan Vierria A welcoming sight Hollywood Park family turns front lawn into friendly, whimsical garden Trumpet vine trails up and over the porch, which has been resurfaced with terra cotta tiles.