12 panels and a gate.

LOL on the HOA. : )

Annette, who is visualizing them in the front of her house, big sighhhh.

I put a couple of panels in part of my driveway. One is attached to a gate, but the other is only serving for a backdrop for a little 'nook' flower bed. You could use them to section off parts of the garden.
I don't know how big your back yard is, but you could always make another bed and have the fence set up around it. That would look neat. You might also lean them up against a pre-existing fence. They are really cool! ;-)
CMK

......and I could not live with an HOA that wouldn't let me have gardens and neat stuff like that - but that is just me :) .....

Lynne

Our metal Jerith fence around the cottage garden was on our blueprints when we built, so I got it approved as part of the house, rather than part of the landscape! :-) The landscape fence requirement here is 3 board, pasture fence.

Cameron

Cameron what forethought to get the fence approved as part of the building process.

Seriously good score! Lucky you

Jenny P

There was an X-Files episode with a HOA that was too strict. A monster came and ate them. :-)

glenda

I think I want to do something around the shed. I just had the brick edging put in. I wish I had know about the fencing at that time.

Path at center of patio.

Turning right to walk through the rose arbor.

Left side of the shed. You can't tell in this pic. but the ash tree has a very large canopy and shades most of the back yard. Plus shade from the back fence neighbor.

Front of the shed. That rose blooms once a year. I think I want to put a repeat bloomer in it's place. On the right side of the shed is a cable box about 3x3x3. Also 2 large redtip photinias. One is dead and I planted vines to grow on it.

As the house faces North, even with the shade of the trees there is a lot of hot sun.
You can see the grass has turned brown. But if we ever get rain, it will green up.
It is too hot to get out and clean up the pots etc.

Great find! Those fence panels and the shed look like a good match. Even the existing trellises back by the trees would fit in perfectly.

It really is too durn hot to work in the yard, but seems like a cold front today -- only 91 degrees mid-afternoon. If the rain would just come through town and not around it...

Glad you are feeling better.

-S

Also, I'm sorry to hear you had been sick. Glad you are feeling better!

Diana

even them out and use them as horizontal trellises.

or

Even them out, and hang on the backfence. YOu can then hang pots from them.

or use them to create shelves

or to create tables

or makes a nice compost bin

That is great.
I love "dumpster diving" and "curb collecting" good reusable things...finding ways to recycle other people's throw aways. It is how the oldest form of cottage gardening came to be - the poor cottagers rescued plants, bulbs, pots, yard ornaments, bricks for paving, and yes, even fences and gates that the rich folks or their land barons had thrown out in favor of some new something. The cottagers were in many instances, the reason many of the "old favorite" flowers and veggies still exist today.

As creative as you two ladies are, I am sure you will find a clever and beautiful cottagey way to use them.

Terrific find. I am happy for you.
Your friend,
~Annie

they're gorgeous - i like the idea of turning them on end for a ladder-like trellis - you could also use a vertical fence for multiple hanging pots w/misc garden bling

kathy & scully - our town has hoa's, but not our neighborhood - we, and other neighbors, refer to our housing area as the slums of C*** or the C*** ghetto b/c we have ordinary weeds and ordinary cars and ordinary front doors, etc - one of our neighbors across the yard is a poster child for why HOAs are beneficial - but i can so see the HOA nazis, the really hateful ones, being eaten by aliens :-)

those panels are what i hope to accomplish with our old fence panels - we're slowly replacing them - with two level panels, i hope to cut off two feet at the bottom, remove every other picket, give them a rough coat of white paint, then create a fenced entrance where the side yard (with all white garden) meets the full back yard

i look forward to seeing your final project, too

~ freshair