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from Dave Hill contains these words:

I have to dissagree with Sacha on this.
I used to teach mobility to Visually impared people and one of the
greatest hazards were Rugosa hedged growing over pavements, they grow
so fast that you can't keep up with them, and one burst of heavy rain
and they can be 2 or 3 feet over the pavement at face hight.where the
day before there had been a clear path.
Where I used to live I had a 40 ft long Lonicera nitida hedge that was
around 6ft heigh. I started having problems with kids throwing
themselves against it, and knocking it out of shape.
I put in half a dozen fencing posts and fed 2 strands of barbed wire
into the middle of the hedge so that it was at least 12 inches into
the hedge.
within 2 days they stoped and never did it again.
I'd put an ordinary wirw fence up, 2 or 3 strands of plain wire and
plant the hedge along that.
OR
As I have here Iplanted a mixture of Loniceria and Hawthorn so the
hawthorn gives strength to the hedge and makes it almost imposible to
penetrate.,
I have that with a wire fence in it as field boundaries, and I have it
to over 8ft heigh.

That sounds a good idea. You could always plant certain berberis
varieties as well as/instead of the hawthorn and have fragrant yellow
(or orange) flowers, and earlier berries which blackbirds adore, and
keep the evergreen aspect of the hedge a bit more so.

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Rusty
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