If you would like some prickly pear, or blackberry, or lantana, or "wait a
while", or "wait a bloody long while", drop back a line.

I have all these as advanced plants on my farm (which many years ago was a
prickly pear selection) near Gatton and I dig a few out with the dozer on a
semi-regular basis......They are all capable of slowing down kids, adults,
dogs, cows, horses and some of them are big enough to slow down the tractor
or dozer, but only because mine doesn't have a cabin......

;)
Peter

"Dwayne" wrote in message
...
My mom always used roses. They were beautiful and really did the job.

Dwayne

"The Lady Gardener" wrote in message
...
I can visualise a lovely spot for a variety of thorny succulent cacti -
very
drought tolerant, and very unpleasant to try and traverse, and not at
all
invasive (ok - so stay away from prickly pear). Perhaps considering
relocating your compost heap to this corner might also serve to halt
your
superhighway - though my dogs have always loved these!

Good luck

Joanne


"Peter and Susan" wrote in message
...
We have a minor boundary problem. Our side neighbours (#8) recently
rebuilt
their side fence towards the back of the property and didn't join it up
with
either our or their rear neighbour's back/side fences. As a result we
now
have a significant gap between No 8's boundary fence and our rear
boundary
fence. This has resulted in a steady stream of dogs and kids from the
property behind #8 using our yard as a speedway, a situation we are not
entirely happy with.

We had a look at our boundary situation today to try and come up with a
solution but the problem is the layout of that corner of the yard (our
side
neighbour retains up and the rear neighbour retains down) as well as
discovering that neither fence has side posts, so we can't secure a
section
of railing and nail on more palings. Digging a new post hole will be a
problem as well.

One thought that occurred to us was perhaps planting something that
would
be
unpleasant to walk through. Bougainvillea came to mind but it may be too
invasive for our purposes. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

Incidently, we have tried asking the kids not to run through our yard
but
obviously its not working.

We are in Brisbane.

Thanks in advance

Susan and Peter