Soup wrote:
Soup just had to say
On 17 Mar 2004 01:11:06 -0800,
(Campbell Thompson) wrote:
snip
Some
forms of Holly (delve deeply - it's a huge and varied genus) would fit
your bill.
Be very careful of holly ,if the neighbours or indeed yourself has or are
likely to have children, holly leaves can be quite 'prickly'. Next door
put up a fence to keep our (inherited) holly hedge at bay, hated it with
a passion so eventually I removed it ,took me two days too cut the foliage
from the trunks,had been growing for thirty odd years so the root system
was very 'mature' took me two days too dig the roots out four days in
all just to remove a hedge. Maybe if the hedge had been kept on top
of with regard to pruning and thinning out might have been nicer, but
overgrown and dangerous as it was it had to go.
Yes they are prickly, but holly is a natural hazard, I fell into a
nettle bed as a youngster, not a happy bunny, but I would not ban nettles.
I have a holly hedge, also beech and hawthorn, of the three the holly is
by far the easiest to maintain.