Berberis, easy to grow and I find that I get nasty bruising when accidently pick a bit up.
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Recommend me some vicious nasty spikey outdoor plants?
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Chase - Member
Barb wire
Guess what - the police advised against it - I could be left liable if one of the little f***ers hurt themselves on it. What rights do decent citizens actually have left these days?
As TJ said, bull$h!t, as long as it's not hanging over next door or into public space where someone who has reason to be there might be injured by it, you're fine using barbed wire - there's miles of the blimmin stuff in the countryside.
Electrified windows, 6 ft deep pointy stick bottomed man traps another issue
Confirmation.
http://www.met.police.uk/crimeprevention/garden2.htm
As they say plants are more effective.Posted 2 years ago # -
punji sticks?
caltrops?Posted 2 years ago # -
blackthorn
hedgelaying experience shows that the least they'll get away with is a good stabbing and some red spots, thats if they aren't one of the many who seem to react, rashes, sore joints etc, probably capable of growing atop a wall, but will eventually blow the mortar outPosted 2 years ago # -
Don't know if it will grow in this country, but Bougainvillea cuts you to shreds (and has pretty flowers)
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This is a tricky one as it seems you want to plant the deterrent plants in planters on top of the wall... right?
Most of the shrubs already mentioned, though excellent anti-vandal plants, will probably not survive and defintely not thrive unless the container size is pretty considerable.
The immediate solution, if not able to use broken glass/razor wire/booby traps (as mush as the little sh!ts deserve it) is, as also mentioned, non-drying, anti-climb paint or tar - it will certainly put them off until...
... the dog (wild) roses and brambles (blackberries... mmmm...) you've planted in the ground below come of age and ensure no scallies get in. These wild plants are easy to grow, have wonderful fruit and flowers (though not in that order...), encourage wildlife and are of merciless evil.
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Having spent the day hedgelyaing, I can wholeheartedly recommend Blackthorn. Absolute Bas$%*d stuff.
Just got to wait for the thorns to go septic and work their way out now...
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This on the shed roof should deter
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As others have said, Pyracantha otherwise known as firethorn for a good reason.
Had some growing up the side of my my garage at my previous house. Needed clipping twice a year and grows about 4 or 5 feet between each clipping. The thorns are about 15 - 20 mm long, fairly thick and really, really hurt when they go in. Hence the name.
Looks great when it flowers and when it produces berries. Appeared to be indestructible. Clippings when left in pile for a few weeks in the rain just seemed to get harder and nastier. Fire might work, although I suspect it will simply turn it all into a harder nastier carbonated form of itself.
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you can eat them and they might act as a deterrent.
With a nice bottle of Chianti
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TJ, from a CSO but....
If the barbed wire is not adjoining the highway and an injury results, you could still be faced with a claim for damages under the Occupier Liability Acts. Occupiers of premises have a duty of care, to people entering or using their premises. This duty even extends to trespassers, although it is not as extensive as it is to people lawfully using or visiting the premises. So a burglar, who could not be aware that barbed wire was on top of a fence and injured himself on it, could have a claim against you despite the fact that he was a trespasser.Which is possibly the reason why places with barbed wire etc have signs all over them, not a pleasant look in a residential area though.
The OLA seems to say:
(the question whether a risk was so accepted to be decided on the same principles as in other cases in which one person owes a duty of care to another).
So I guess you have to give the crim a chance to make the decision, i.e. signs.Think I prefer the Punji stick option.
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My parents have Pyracantha growing all up the side of their garage, as others have said it looks nice in flower and the berries attract loads of birds. We had a nest in there for years - no cat in the land can get near it with those evil thorns!
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Berberis, probably best for growth and coverage.
Would old chain rings be of any use? Lining the edge of your shed roof. Decorative but sharp enough to be a deterrent?Posted 2 years ago # -
There is a variety of blackberry that is fast growing, trainable, tough and very thorny. Marketed as natural razor wire - and totally legal. Should do the trick and you get to make jam/pudding.
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It depends upon the soil there - Berberis likes dry and hot.
Brambles and roses are pretty tolerant. A hedgerow mix of blackthorn interlaced with Dog Rose and Bramble should be pretty inpassable plus great for natural wildlife.
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Waste engine oil on top of the wall. It will never wash out of the Mosschino Tracky bottoms or white Tossscini tops. lay a course of bricks the 'wrong' way up .ie for a top course you put flat side uppermost to prevent frost damage if water collects, so whack them on with the gulley uppermost , and fill it with old engine oil, from a diesel taxi , so its got 30,000 miles use and is like treacle.
Saves having to wait 2 years for your thicket to grow.
Or dig 4 foot hole in front of wall , making it 10ft to the top, place sharpened bamboo sticks in the bottom , smeared with dog poo.Posted 2 years ago # -
You need some of this ontop of your wall:
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