{"id":7611,"date":"2009-09-22T10:29:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T17:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=7611"},"modified":"2010-09-07T09:51:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T16:51:20","slug":"hi-tension-wire-as-fencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/renovate\/hi-tension-wire-as-fencing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi Tension Wire as Fencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently at my home I&#8217;ve been having a design dilemma and related to finding a cost effective way to deal with my current hedge\/fence situation.  A little background: The house I live in was a foreclosure and at one time it had a lush hedge surrounding the property, but after being empty for 9 months the hedge is mostly dead and terribly unattractive. My plan has been to replace the current hedge with a more drought tolerant plant, and after thorough research on hedges in my neighborhood, I&#8217;ve finally decided on the  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Podocarpus\" target=\"_blank\">podocarpus<\/a> plant. It makes for a very tall, thick and lush hedge, and my neighbors who have a particularly nice one have had it about 4 years and only water it 15 minutes a week. Perfect.<\/p>\n<p>But my next problem was deciding what to do while the hedge filled out.  I didn&#8217;t want to just have empty spaces between each plant as I waited for it to grow&#8211;but any money spent on building a wood or  other high dollar fence would essentially be wasted because it would need to be removed when the hedge properly filled out. So I needed a fence that provided security at a low linear foot price so I could invest more in older, more mature plants.  Also, I wanted to be able to leave the fence there so when the hedge filled out entirely it would still provide security and keep my dog in the yard. <\/p>\n<p>Then it occurred to me: ranchers use hi-tensile fences to enclose thousands of acres. And I remember seeing it used a long time ago in the Ocean 1.7 Better Shelter homes built in Orange County, CA a few years ago.  They&#8217;re perfectly modern and not going to break the bank.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettershelter.com\/photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Ocean 1.7 Photos<\/a>]<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently at my home I&#8217;ve been having a design dilemma and related to finding a cost effective way to deal with my current hedge\/fence situation. A little background: The house I live in was a foreclosure and at one time it had a lush hedge surrounding the property, but after being empty for 9 months [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[274,190],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12527,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions\/12527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}