"Ben" wrote in message
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mike ring wrote:
Ben wrote in
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Hence picket fence

with pointy top, or lowish spiky hedge. The house on the other
side of
the footpath has a hedge and it hasn't done the tarmac footpath
any
damage, although its planted in soil, not holes drilled into the
tarmac.



From what theu do to brick walls of front gardens, and fences
round here, I
would say get a good hedge in if you can.

For some reason they seem less attractive to vandals, and there
are some
good prickly ones, I know of pyrocanthus, which is a real thug,
and seems
bulletproof as well, and the birds love it in autumn - (I had the
care of
one once), but I expect the good folks here know of some more evil
species.

I was thinking of pyracantha, I've already planted some to stop them
climbing over a low fence and its vicious stuff :-) I guess, apart
from
being spiky, the main attraction of a hedge is that its
self-repairing.

Having just tidied up a pyracantha screening my oil tank, I can vouch
for its bloodletting abilities.
You might also consider one of the long-thorned berberises.

Franz