If you've visited my garden either in person or on my blog, you may remember that for years now, I've had this view of my neighbor's back garden from a path in my garden and glimpse part of it from my kitchen window.
It's been a lovely view but our new neighbor decided to put up a fence for some privacy in her back yard.
At first, I thought I'd not like it as it will reduce the late afternoon sun in that area and in the bamboo grove. But now that it's nearing completion, I'm finding that I like the sense of enclosure and privacy in my own space.
There will be some sort of spherical finials on the posts and corbels of some sort on either side of the posts. Our neighbor (who is wonderful BTW) will be painting her side and says we can do whatever we want with our side. Please forgive the mess, I've not cleaned up this area since the mess of cleaning out the garage for the conversion last fall.
I'm loving the enclosure and the natural wood color but have the opportunity to put any color here like Majorelle blue and yellow or terracotta. Once the tree whose trunk you're viewing, gets it's leaves, the area becomes darker. The tree, an Albizia julibrissin (Mimosa) could go. Would you keep the natural wood color and seal it so it stays looking that way, leave the fence to go gray, or use a paint color? If you were going to go with a color, what would it be?