Stone & Cedar Fence

Ashley Robinson designed a version of the traditional stone and wood fence for the part of a garden that would include kitchen herbs and vining vegetables such as beans and peas. Cedar posts were set deep in the gravel footing for the wall and the freestanding wall was built wide enough that the posts came up through the hearting or packing stone in the center of the free-standing, double-sided wall. A wide-mix of Vermont stone was already on site--blocky, rough limestone from Panton and flatter, almost-glistening greenstone from Waitfield among them. To play with the light and colors of the garden, we used more limestone as well as some darker ledgestone from Plainfield. After completion of the 30” wall, we ran strands of willow as a trellis between the cedar posts. The bed for the plantings is in the center of the wall—a ‘planted’ wall similar in principle to sod-topped walls in the British Isles.