Like I said, a kind of 'folia' under the grass to keep the weeds away.
OK, right, thanks :)
Many estates in UK have open front lawns.
I meant gardens, not lawns ;)
It's a kind of cultural thing that people just know not to go on them.
Well, in the Polish countryside it's not a "cultural" thing, rather practical :) A fence is to keep the chickens, ducks and geese and dogs from straying away from the yard. And gives some privacy from the people walking down the street when you're sunbathing, for example :)
The typical Polish fence is exceptionally ugly and brings down the area - why would anyone want to allow this?
o_O
Could you post some pictures with examples of those "exceptionally ugly" fences?
But you can always put a nice-looking fence, you know ;)
The garden in question, however, is in the UK, where you can't always put a fence round a garden, especially on a modern housing estate where there are often restrictive covenants about uniformity.
OK, I didn't know it's in the UK, I thought it's in Poland ;)