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  • From: "Pete" <pete@riflemag.com>
  • To: <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Re: Natural fencing Suggestions
  • Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:47:02 -0500

Hello
Here in 8b SE Louisiana, I use Cherokee Rose. It is truly a vicious and inpenetratable barrier. It will take meat off the bone if you get into it.  It is also very beautiful in bloom and just growing.
Good Luck
Pete
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 12:30
Subject: Re: [nafex] Re: Natural fencing Suggestions

>I believe the living fence will eventually creep and fill the gap.  If I can
>get 45' feet established, leaving that last 5 feet for their
>inevitable passing, sooner or later that gap will close too. 
you might also try digging a great hole in front of the gap when you finally
move to close it.
I'd have to go with the recommendations for Hawthorne; there are also some
good Prunus to try too, like Sloe or Blackthorn, P. spinosus (who cannot
understand that Latin?!) If they can make a bull-proof hedge... they respond
well to pruning and shaping and are tougher than the rose. Brambles could be
mixed in, why not?
>There is nothing worse than a thicket of thorned brambles (not just a fence
>row), and that is what I want along the river and under the
>bridge.
It's a shame that you're not in the tropics- Belizean riverbanks are often
covered with a local bamboo, Guadua spinosa, which grows like kikuyu grass,
rooting at nodes, but is armed with 1 inch spikes pointing fore and aft, and
forms 15 ft tall entanglements.... can't see over it, struggle through it, or
crawl under it...

Rick Valley Northern Groves
PO Box 1236, Philomath, OR 97370
Mobile-(541)602-1315, hm.& msg. (541)456-4364  Bamboo catalog $3 or at
<http://www.teleport.com/~dbrooks/bamboo.html>
"Useful Bamboos and other plants‹ Permaculture education‹ Ecological design &
consultation centering on water,landform and horticultural systems"




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