Garden Design | Weaving A Stick Fence
A stick fence can be sculptural, decorative and a great backdrop for a garden design. Of course, it also can block a busy road. It can be built using maple, willow, birch or any sapling, and whatever creativity you can muster. Of course, this fence assumes you have access to lots and lots of sticks, as we do. It is held together with tension and pressure and requires few tools. This is a rough sketch of how Michael and I managed ours.
If possible, collect the twigs in the early spring. If collected later, remove all the leaves. You will need a huge pile, comprised of various lengths and sizes, but you will need numerous saplings of five feet or longer for the horizontal weave of your fence.
First decide the size, shape and location of your fence. Each section will need at least three vertical posts (use sturdy, two-finger thick saplings) to weave the smaller saplings around. Dig 12-inch-deep holes and place the posts in each. (So for a six-foot-high fence, sapling posts would
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