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Plant suggestions Please
I live about 1km from a large hotel, far enough away not to be bothered by it, but judging by one corner of my front garden just at bladder stretch point from last call drinks! The area is where my front wall and my neighbours lower fence join, there is a large frangipani that wards off summer "waterers" but over the course of winters I have lost 3 mature azaleas and a resplendent birds nest fern, and the corner often has the redolent aroma of urine. I now desire to plant something with huge unwieldy canes attached to which would be long and razor sharp thorns........any suggestions for a plant not out of place in a bed of camellia and azalea under the shade of a frangipani in the Perth climate? My first thought - bougainvillea is not a suitable plant for the spot.....though it would please me to plant one just for the ouch factor. A (not always) Dizzy Blonde |
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Ummmm - I was going to say - isn't there some way of sort of putting a
small, ummm electric fence in there. Just turn it on at night???? Then I went and queried it with DH (he is an electronics engineer), and he totally confused me with the pulse rate of electric fences, and what it would do to them if they were wearing a pacemaker. He suggested a lemon tree. Not much help, I am afraid. |
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On 2003-10-19, Linda wrote:
Then I went and queried it with DH (he is an electronics engineer), and he totally confused me with the pulse rate of electric fences, and what it would do to them if they were wearing a pacemaker. Barbed wire? -- Jeremy Lunn Melbourne, Australia Homepage: http://www.austux.net/ http://www.jabber.org.au/ - the next generation of Instant Messaging. |
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A Dizzy Blonde wrote:
I live about 1km from a large hotel, far enough away not to be bothered by it, but judging by one corner of my front garden just at bladder stretch point from last call drinks! The area is where my front wall and my neighbours lower fence join, there is a large frangipani that wards off summer "waterers" but over the course of winters I have lost 3 mature azaleas and a resplendent birds nest fern, and the corner often has the redolent aroma of urine. I now desire to plant something with huge unwieldy canes attached to which would be long and razor sharp thorns........any suggestions for a plant not out of place in a bed of camellia and azalea under the shade of a frangipani in the Perth climate? My first thought - bougainvillea is not a suitable plant for the spot.....though it would please me to plant one just for the ouch factor. A (not always) Dizzy Blonde Oh! How deeply I sympathise with this problem! We had the same trouble until we put up a front fence. Suddenly, there was neither vomit, urine nor 'the other' deposited in our garden by man or beast and it was *such* a relief! I have to tell you, it's quite illegal to put up an electric fence! (Or, at least, it is in most municipalities in NSW). They call it 'setting a man-trap' and it's not far removed in gravity from attempted manslaughter, so for goodness' sake leave that one alone! I was told this by the investigating constable when someone tried to steal our car and settled for just the petrol instead - they siphoned off a full tank of gas, left two broken windows and had completely ruined the dip-stick in a futile attempt to hotwire it (the car, not the dipstick...) - Hnnnnnnhhhhh! When I suggested getting out my little pulse-generator (left over from years and years in the Pony Club - I don't habitually set man-traps, OK) - the coppers said 'Uh-uh!' and told me I'd wind up doing Time if I set up such a trap! My only real suggestion to you would be to plant either yucca (pretty awful stuff with positively lethal spines at the ends of the leaves - it would give a bloke a pretty nasty injury to the willie if he tried anything) or Rosemary Grevillea (*much* more user-fiendly and attracts birds to boot!) See, Grevillea rosmarinifolia (that's its Latin name) is tantamount to having a gigantonormous hedgehog (no pun intended) or echidna parked in your front garden. It's pretty awful to walk into in the dark (I know!) but has really gorgeous little chinese lantern style flowers. My Mum planted G.rosmarinifolia to deter the neighbour's little no-neck monsters and it worked a treat! I imagine this plant would grow in Perth, but you'd need to check. If not, then I'm sure a visit to a local native nursery will come up with some prickly thorny plant which would be just perfect for you! Holly could be a possibility? Or maybe a very large rose bush/climbing rose? Anyway, *do* let us know what you decide! I'm really interested in any other suggestions! -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia PS. Of course, the predictable idea would be to install sensor lights so that the offending potential piddlers would become illuminated as they approached your property. |
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"A Dizzy Blonde" wrote in message ... I now desire to plant something with huge unwieldy canes attached to which would be long and razor sharp thorns........any suggestions for a plant not out of place in a bed of camellia and azalea under the shade of a frangipani in the Perth climate? My first thought - bougainvillea is not a suitable plant for the spot.....though it would please me to plant one just for the ouch factor. A (not always) Dizzy Blonde Bouganvillea would do the job and it grows quickly but you will have to trim it 2 or 3 times a year which isn't fun. How about a native shrub that has thorns? Such as: ACACIA colletioides (spine wattle) Flower............. Winter/spring Propagate....... Seed Height 4m Dense dome-shaped prickly shrub with a stiff main stem and flattened leaves and very sharp prickly thorns making this an ideal stock-proof hedge. Large golden ball flowers. David |
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I heard a tale long ago about someone with the same problem as yours who
linked some sort of sensor (pH? Temperature?) up to hundreds of watts of floodlights. When a chap relieved himself on their fence, he suddnely became a centre stage attraction (or not, as it were). I have no idea how true this story is (though I wish it to be so), and I have no idea of the electonics behind it, sorry to say - but perhaps some keen electronic-minded gardener out there could shed some (ahem) light on the possibility? Good Luck DB. "A Dizzy Blonde" wrote in message ... I live about 1km from a large hotel, far enough away not to be bothered by it, but judging by one corner of my front garden just at bladder stretch point from last call drinks! The area is where my front wall and my neighbours lower fence join, there is a large frangipani that wards off summer "waterers" but over the course of winters I have lost 3 mature azaleas and a resplendent birds nest fern, and the corner often has the redolent aroma of urine. I now desire to plant something with huge unwieldy canes attached to which would be long and razor sharp thorns........any suggestions for a plant not out of place in a bed of camellia and azalea under the shade of a frangipani in the Perth climate? My first thought - bougainvillea is not a suitable plant for the spot.....though it would please me to plant one just for the ouch factor. A (not always) Dizzy Blonde |
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