Unique ways to decorate your fence

<p><strong>Create a bird house community.</strong> Bird houses don&#8217;t always have to be hanging from a tree or from a hook in the garden. Invite your feathery neighbors to move into a cozy bird house section of fencing.</p>
Bird house on wood fence in the garden(Getty Images/iStockphoto/liewluck)
<p><strong>A pallet herb garden.</strong> Recycled pallets can be used numerous ways, but one is to house a vertical herb garden!</p>
Creative wood herb planter made of wooden pallets pallet hanging on the grey fence in a backyard. Garden work. Vegetable life. Pallet painted in black as interesting idea for plants. Rosemary Basil.(Getty Images/iStockphoto/Oksana Aksenova)
<p><strong>Reuse bottles as hanging vases along the fence.</strong> Empty glass bottles are used in a variety of ways in the garden and make a great hanging vase. Use many or just a few for a simple addition of temporary flowers.</p>
Empty bottles used as outdoor decoration, strung along the fence - a home for cute fake flowers!(Getty Images/iStockphoto/nedjelly)
<p><strong>Brighten your fence and the surrounding area with year-round lighting.</strong> Maybe you need something that requires less maintenance. Weather-resistant lights can be easily strung along a fence or connecting fence posts for added light to the surrounding space.</p>
Backyard fence with string lights on a summer evening(Getty Images/iStockphoto/Alex Levine)
<p><strong>Feature cascading flowers in flower boxes.</strong> Flowers are a great way to beautify any space and fences make a great place to feature them.</p>
Closeup of purple and blue calibrachoa petunia flowers basket hanging on fence by colorful building house entrance and nobody on sidewalk in New Orleans, USA(Getty Images/iStockphoto/krblokhin)
<p><strong>Add a trellis vertical garden with small potted plants.</strong> Fairy lights and a hanging trellis garden are a great way to give your nighttime hang outs a little more beauty.</p>
Stock photo of a city garden iluminated with led lights showing the cityscape. Focus selective.(Getty Images/iStockphoto/Alvaro Comb)
<p><strong>Show off your travels with license plates.</strong> Maybe you&#8217;re an avid traveler, maybe you have lived many places. Fences can be a unique place to showcase your travels!</p>
Show off your travels with license plates. Maybe you’re an avid traveler, maybe you have lived many places. Fences can be a unique place to showcase your travels!
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<p><strong>Create a bird house community.</strong> Bird houses don&#8217;t always have to be hanging from a tree or from a hook in the garden. Invite your feathery neighbors to move into a cozy bird house section of fencing.</p>
<p><strong>A pallet herb garden.</strong> Recycled pallets can be used numerous ways, but one is to house a vertical herb garden!</p>
<p><strong>Reuse bottles as hanging vases along the fence.</strong> Empty glass bottles are used in a variety of ways in the garden and make a great hanging vase. Use many or just a few for a simple addition of temporary flowers.</p>
<p><strong>Brighten your fence and the surrounding area with year-round lighting.</strong> Maybe you need something that requires less maintenance. Weather-resistant lights can be easily strung along a fence or connecting fence posts for added light to the surrounding space.</p>
<p><strong>Feature cascading flowers in flower boxes.</strong> Flowers are a great way to beautify any space and fences make a great place to feature them.</p>
<p><strong>Add a trellis vertical garden with small potted plants.</strong> Fairy lights and a hanging trellis garden are a great way to give your nighttime hang outs a little more beauty.</p>
<p><strong>Show off your travels with license plates.</strong> Maybe you&#8217;re an avid traveler, maybe you have lived many places. Fences can be a unique place to showcase your travels!</p>

This content is sponsored by Long Fence.

Fences can be beautiful all on their own and can add a clean finish to a yard or privacy from neighbors. But they can also be a great place to be creative and showcase plants or art! Here are a few ideas on how you can decorate your fence.

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