About

About Post & Rail

A working journal about fences, boundaries and the ground underneath them.

What this is

Post & Rail exists because most writing about garden boundaries is either a product listing or a five-hundred word article that could have been three sentences. Fencing is a practical trade with a small number of genuinely important ideas in it, and almost all of them are about ground rather than timber.

Everything here comes from having done the job. That means it is opinionated, occasionally wrong, and specific about the things that actually decide whether a fence lasts eight years or thirty.

Who writes it

Ellis Warburton spent eleven years installing fencing and garden structures across the Welsh Marches and the Shropshire hills, which is ground that teaches you about slopes and water whether you want the lesson or not. The trade is behind him. The opinions are not.

What it is not

Nothing here is for sale. There is no shop, no quote form and no lead generation. Where a piece links out to somewhere useful it is because it is useful, and nobody has paid for it.

None of this is a substitute for a structural engineer on a retaining wall, an arborist on a protected tree, or checking with your local authority before you build anything tall near a highway.