Wrought Iron Garden Gates Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide

Wrought Iron Garden Gates To Guard Your Garden

By Jennifer Dullard

Wrought iron garden gates can keep stray animals and unwanted visitors from entering your garden. You want to protect your garden, to keep out animals from digging it up and wasting your hard work.

Some keen gardeners work hard to maintain their garden and installing a wrought iron gate keeps unwanted intruders out. It also makes great decoration of the garden area with a fence and a gate.

As there are space limitations for the location of my garden, wrought iron gates add a little mystery to the design. What is beyond the gate? A sense of wonder.

No Sense Of Dimension

I have no sense of dimension. Whenever I imagine a space that I have to layout, it becomes much larger than it actually is in my imagination.

My garden was no exception. I dreamed about it night after night as winter slowly turned to spring. I knew that I would make it great this year. I would design a path, install a waterfall, grow several species of rare and exotic flowers – the works. And to top it all, I would add wrought iron garden gates to the front entrance.

I have always had a fondness for wrought iron gates and doors. When I was a little kid, as a matter of fact, I dreamed of living in a castle. I suppose many kids did, and in many ways my dreams were typical. Instead of a portcullis, however, I imagined a wrought iron door at the front.

It would be so big that it would require a giant to open it, and I would have one specially employed for the purpose. I tried to convince my mom to install a wrought iron gate on our house, thinking that it was as big as the castle of my dreams. Apparently, my imagination has never grown a sense of proportion.

Oversized Wrought Iron Gates

My wrought iron garden gates were every bit as oversized as the iron door of my dreams. I had pictured double wrought iron garden gates, big enough to let two or three people through at once.

When I looked at the space, however, I did not think that I would have room for the smallest wrought iron garden gate they sold. Even if I could install it, it would look forced. Having something so big and grand in such a small and cramped space never creates the right effect.

Still, I knew that one way or another, I had to have wrought iron garden gates. I could get rid of some of the flower beds, even forsake the waterfall, but the wrought iron gate had to stay!

In the end, I actually designed it so that it was in the interior of the garden. The garden had a sort of ante-chamber, and once you pass it, you are confronted by the wrought iron garden gates. It was a little bit forced, but I was still quite happy with it. Who wouldn’t be?

Wrought Iron Gate And Fence

I have now installed a new in ground solar swimming pool in my backyard with outdoor solar lights. For safety and security reasons, I have arranged for the installation of a metal fence with a locked wrought iron gate to stop any accidents involving my children or my pets.

I have heard too many stories on the news, about children as young as babies drowning in unfenced pools. I do not want my children to be the next victims. Installing the fence around the pool, ensures that no child or pet strays near the pool without supervision.

Improved Safety And Security With Outdoor Solar Lights

With the addition of the outdoor solar lights, we can walk around the yard at night without fearing we may step on something. The lights enhance security around the yard, as the lights come on whenever there is someone in the yard.

If there is an intruder in the yard and the lights come on, we will see him and call the police.

The backyard has now become more of an entertainment area, especially during the summer nights, when we can have outdoor pool parties.

Visitors to my home, while looking at my backyard ideas always like to talk about my wrought iron garden gates.

About the Author:
Jennifer Dullard has written a number of articles on gardening and landscaping including Wrought Iron Outdoor Furniture, Flower Beds, Water Proof Cases, Metal Window Boxes, Growing Tomatoes, Ornamental Grasses, Container Gardens, Window Box Garden.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.

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