Willow Hurdle Fence Panels 1ft x 6ft

Willow is the warm one, and at a foot high that is the whole point. A low run of red-brown weave along the front of a border does not disappear the way a grey material would — it draws a line you can actually see, which is exactly what a formal bed or a gravel path wants.

The colour is deep red-brown, russet in flat light and closer to oxblood when the sun comes round and finds the weave. The rods are slim and the weave close and even, giving a finer, more regular surface than hazel — hazel being the silvery grey-brown one, thicker in the rod and looser in the weave. Willow adds colour. Hazel takes it away.

At 30cm it frames rather than screens. It edges a gravel path beautifully, rings a rose bed or a box parterre without shouting over it, and gives the front of a mixed border a clean deliberate line. Low enough to step over, and nothing behind it is hidden.

Why an open weave suits a low run

Air and light pass straight through, so nothing sits damp against it and nothing gets shaded. Willow is cut and woven while green and supple, which is why the weave draws tighter as the panel seasons rather than working loose — the same craft as a basket, worked at fence scale. See the full willow range for the other five heights.