Long story short, my mom wants to put some type of thorny barrier along about 20-30 ft of her property that people like to park on (fencing isn’t practical)
There would need to be some tolerance for road run off, Z7a, it’s also full sun.
Between the various black/raspberry etc or another berry type hedge/shrub. Taste isn’t as important as well.
Does anyone know one that’s particularly extra thorny with a high degree of suckering? Doesn’t need to be tall but more of a spreading.
Or anyone else dealt with this before and put one in? Pretty much looking for the opposite of what a lot of stuff is bred for nowadays
There isn’t anything thornier than a rugosa rose. Nice fragrant flowers and huge hips. It’s also known as apple rose. You just have to check, if it isn’t on the invasives list in your state.
I have a new blackberry going that may be thornier than Clark’s. Im waiting on it to fruit now to see if its worth the suffering. You cant even touch the leaves on it.
Own-root che, maybe? That is my plan for a similar planting. I was originally thinking trifoliate (not FD, just regular trifoliate), but when I saw the warnings about how che forms thick, thorny thickets on its own roots, I decided to go that route instead. I’m still at the early stage of rooting the cuttings, but it looks like a very high percentage of dormant cuttings (from both Marta and England’s) are taking.
If you stood on the other side with a million dollars and the requirement for someone was to cross the patch to get that million they will never make it.
Is there a reason you wouldn’t recommend it? The spot I’m wanting an impenetrable hedge is along the rear of my lot, in an alleyway right-of-way where there’s currently an old fence that I want to remove. Many yards in my area have that area taken over by Himalayan blackberries, but those are my sworn enemy so I wanted something else instead.
i hunted in s. P.A many moons ago. they have cats claw briars there. the harder you pull away from them the more they dig in. only the deer managed to get through them unscathed. wicked things. seen hedgerows of it growing 20ft. thick and wide in fun sun.
It’s my understanding that it is a horrendously vigorous suckerer that is near impossible to eradicate and very invasive on its own roots. Also apparently it pops suckers all over very far away like maypop.
I hadn’t heard about the long distance runners, that could be concerning. Though the area I’m planting has an alleyway on one side and a huge California bay laurel tree on the other side, which is allelopathic, releasing chemicals that specifically inhibit root development. So I’m hopeful that whatever suckering hedge I end up planting will stay within bounds, so to speak.
My parents plan to mow over, or hedge trimmer anything that pops up out of bounds. So I’m looking at more of the bramble stuff than the tree forms. Although some of the threes are quite impressive
