Re: [nafex] Re: Natural fencing Suggestions

["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

I have a single seedling of Prunus spinosa and I can testify that it does
make a thick tangle.  
-Lon Rombough
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>From: rick valley <bamboogrove@cmug.com>
>To: <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: Re: [nafex] Re: Natural fencing Suggestions
>Date: Mon, Apr 23, 2001, 10:30 AM
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>>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...
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>Rick Valley Northern Groves 
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