plant to prevent children on fence

sunnihuckle · 29-06-2011 6:45pm #1

What would be a good thorny plant to run along the top of a 5 meter picket fence to keep children off?

dazed+confused · 29-06-2011 6:49pm

Daisy, Daisy the rottweiler. Failing that some Hawthorn will do the trick, and its native so good for wildlife and all that jazz.

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sunnihuckle · 29-06-2011 6:50pm

dazed+confused wrote: »

Daisy, Daisy the rottweiler. Failing that some Hawthorn will do the trick, and its native so good for wildlife and all that jazz.

daisy i wish;) hawthorn?

R P McMurphy · 29-06-2011 6:53pm

+1 Hawthorn, very quick growing

Yi Harr · 29-06-2011 7:05pm

Hawthorn may take quite a while to get to 5 metres. Berberis and pyracanthus would be good aswell but also quite slow growing. You could try training something from the Rubus family along it. Perhaps something like this:

http://thewalledgardenblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/winter-colour-rubus-cockburnianus.html

Aside from being thorny it will also produce berries for you. Will put up more info when I'm back at a computer.

Rinker · 29-06-2011 10:19pm

I'll make 2 presumptions here. 1. That the fence is 5m long not high and 2. that you chose a picket fence as a decorative feature (there's many cheaper options if its just needed as a barrier). I therefore wouldn't recommend planting hawthorn or other large shrubs in front of it as it would only hide the fence. Have you thought about training some rambling roses over the fence.

Just google climbing roses and half the images will be of roses growing on picket fences- a classic cottage garden look.

unkel · 29-06-2011 10:52pm

Yi Harr wrote: »

pyracanthus would be good aswell

+1

We used to have kids walking on top of the wall. Not any more. Not even cats will walk on it now

DjFlin · 29-06-2011 11:01pm

Get some regular ivy, and tell the kids is poison ivy.

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