Add It Up: Bollards Affordably Accent Landscapes While Doubling as Security Assets

Bollard manufacturers offer versatile and attractive bollard options to organize, delineate and accent parks, lawns & streetscapes. Bollards bring value to effective and attractive landscape planning. At their simplest, they serve as security and traffic sentinels, directing vehicles, people and bikes - doing double duty as both site definition features and defense posts.

Today's bollards handle all those needs with ease, adding grace and refinement as well. Large collections of period bollards are available for landscaping, built to be used as stand-alone landscape accents or to attractively cover heavy-duty security bollards - most of which have little design appeal. Architectural bollards offer scores of design choices, several standard colors, and unique mounting options. Functional bollards - such as removable, retractable and bike parking bollards – add contemporary flair with practical outdoor landscaping purposes.

To make landscaping bollards a design asset across sites with any combination of functional needs, manufacturers continue to develop flexible, bike storage, retractable, and even removable bollards with mix and match configuration options;

• Providing outdoor pathway definition while minimizing damage to vehicles and property upon impact, flexible bollards are the superior design choice for any site where a vehicle is likely to go over a roadway edge on turns.


• By adding lifting arms to standard bollards, existing bollards are transformed into decorative bike bollards. Thousand of security pipe bollards already in place around parks and pathways can add a bicycle parking option to these posts using bollard covers with arms.


• For outdoor locations where change of accessibility is needed, removable steel bollards with complimentary fixed bollard options are available. Lockable and removable traffic bollards provide roadway and pathway definition, while diverting vehicle access when required. They can be installed in pathways to deter intrusion, to allow pedestrian access, and to define desired traffic flow. They provide safety & protection to critical infrastructures while still maintaining pedestrian freedom.


• Retractable bollards provide roadway and pathway definition, in places where changing vehicle and pedestrian access is required. They can be installed in pathways to deter intrusion, divert traffic, and define routes or roadways. They provide safety & protection to buildings and structures while still maintaining pedestrian freedom. Complimentary fixed and removable mix and match options are available for changing purposes across the landscape setting.

Bollards are much more pleasing to the eye than chain link fencing, and can be connected with graceful chains and other bollard accessories to perform fence functions such as defining pathways, directing traffic, and indentifying entrances and other features that people need to find. Users can add chain to decorative bollards for ulimate landscape highlighting.

Bollards are regularly specified on all kinds of landscaping and streetscaping projects as ornamental or decorative fixtures in gardens and surroundings, sidewalks and pathways. Landscaping bollards are available in many styles, sizes, materials and colors; they are made from are durable, hard wearing materials and coatings, and are ready to withstand all weather conditions.

About Reliance Foundry Co. Ltd.
Reliance Foundry has been a family-owned business since 1927. Landscaping bollards are one of its main product lines, along with industrial wheels, plastic bollard post covers, bike parking products and investment castings. Reliance sources products globally and offers quick and convenient delivery in the United States and Canada from its Vancouver location.

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Contact:
Brad Done - Vice President, Sales and Marketing | Reliance Foundry Co. Ltd. | Surrey, British Columbia (B.C.), Canada
http://www.bollards.ca | e-mail: brad@bollards.ca | Direct Line: (604) 592-4323