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Has anyone considered natural plantings of particularly agressively defensive plant life as a barrier around the homestead? The wife and I put in a few plantings of this demon plant called Cherokee Rose a while back that is determined to conquer the world. It's kind of like kudzu with thorns. Kind of a climbing rose, not exactly a vine, but quite aggressively spreading.
If you were to somehow get yourself INTO the center of that mess, someone would have to come in and cut you out of it. Those thorns are very effective hooks and the branches tend to wrap when you get caught up on it. A fence made of this stuff would be basically impenetrable to anyone on foot trying to get close to your home. Yeah they could hack through it, but you would hear their noise and cursing LONG before they got through it and could deal with the interloper easily.
Heck, intersperse some Spanish bayonnet amoung the Cherokee Rose and it would be a formidable defense, I think.
Of course, YOU will be trapped on the inside.........
If you were to somehow get yourself INTO the center of that mess, someone would have to come in and cut you out of it. Those thorns are very effective hooks and the branches tend to wrap when you get caught up on it. A fence made of this stuff would be basically impenetrable to anyone on foot trying to get close to your home. Yeah they could hack through it, but you would hear their noise and cursing LONG before they got through it and could deal with the interloper easily.
Heck, intersperse some Spanish bayonnet amoung the Cherokee Rose and it would be a formidable defense, I think.
Of course, YOU will be trapped on the inside.........