Fencing and gates
Fences are important to us for two purposes, security and ornamentation.
As we all know, our money is mostly outside with our plants and products. just ready for anyone to load into a pickup and drive off in the middle of the night. We would like to eliminate the six foot fence entirely. Unfortunately, we have to live with it. However, there is no reason to create an ugly statement of our business, their first impression of green garden gates. We have seen owners sink a lot of money into fancy stuff and yet their customers are greeted with shabby broken down fences, gates hanging sideways on their hinges, and big rusty logging chains dangling on the ground.
We are using this perimeter fence for another reason. We believe that it is to our advantage to get our customers into our parking areas before our store officially opens, to get settled, get out the baby strollers and spend some time looking at our outer displays. We also would like to prevent a lot of vehicles stacking at our gates waiting for the store opening.
Security Fencing
For the side and rear fencing of our entire site ( no fencing behind the concrete bark bins), we are using chain link fencing, six feet in height. We will sink heavy duty steel posts in concrete and the rails of the fence frame are a good steel grade. There will some areas around the perimeter where we will want to shield our operations from the public and our business neighbors. We will use plastic inserts for this purpose.
Our goal is to use as much recycled posts, uprights, hardware and fabric as possible from local sources. We have found that highway departments and other governmental agencies are a good source for this used fencing material.
“Owners who install chain link fencing make some mistakes that will cost them over time. Use heavy duty steel posts and heavy gauge rail for the construction and sink those posts in concrete. Otherwise, it will be a repair nightmare all the time after the first couple of years. It is also important to choose a long standing reputable fence company in the community to install the fencing for quick service and repair.
The front fencing will be more decorative. We use the same steel posts and rails as we do in the chain link fence construction. However, with the fence and gate faces, we are using for the slats or pickets, made of one inch tubular steel square pieces that have been powder coated a hunter green and spaced wide. 
Passing by the movement of water
We like the movement of water at green garden gates. In addition to the fountains in our display areas, we want the driving public to enjoy an unobstructed view of moving water as they pass by our stores.
We have created openings in our fence for just that purpose. There are four twelve foot portals which open and close with sliding manual gates for security at closing time. Those openings house water basins and huge basalt fountains with surrounding seasonal landscaping. These fountains, like all others at our stores, are for sale and are easily removed and replaced with another. 
We need the ability to close and lock these portals for security from theft and vandalism. The last thing we want is to drive up in the morning and find red colored die in all our water features!
The massive basalt rock fountains are manufactured by a company in the mountain states. Because of their weight and size, they are to be professionally installed by companies chosen by green garden gates in each of our locations.
We have gone farther with this concept. In area #J, of the site plan, on the corner of our property, we have installed a huge pool and basalt rock waterfall for an impressive water display. This area is also landscaped seasonally with gates that slide open and close for full view by the driving public and secured when we close in the evening and seasonally
Security Gates
The front gates #1, the main entrances and exits for our customers are the “green garden gates”, the signature for all of our stores. Customers will immediately identify our
If you don’t want to chunk away ice and snow to get all the gates open, be smart and have the gates mounted high enough to allow snow and ice to build up below and still be able to get them open
#1 4 twelve foot wooden covered automatic roller gates
#2 2 six foot automatic roller gates/ standard chain link fabric
#3 1 six foot standard gate/ standard chain link fabric
#4 2 six foot automatic roller gates/ standard chain link fabric
#5 1 twelve foot swing gate/ standard chain link fabric
#6 1 six foot swing gate/standard chain link fabric
#7 1 six foot swing gate/standard chain link fabric
#8 1 six foot swing gate/standard chain link fabric
#9 1 twelve foot swing gate/standard chain link fabric
4 twelve foot slide gates fountain portals
2 twenty foot gates/ front fence waterfall area
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Decorative Fences, Gates and Walls
An integral ingredient of garden and outdoor living is the use of fences, gates, windows and walls. They are the backgrounds that bring the beauty to plants. Displays in a garden store that lack these background features cheats the plants that we try to sell. At green garden gates, we use lots of them, all kinds, shapes, textures and colors. We display these features that are most prevalent for the geographical region. In our
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