Intruders, looking for a thorney bush.

[4390evans]

Hi everyone,
Can anyone recomend a good thorny bush that grows quickly and that I can trail it up a wall and over a fence?

Ive had kids in the garden tonight, they have took every apple bar 1 of both trees. Im furious!

Thanks guys

[Martin H]

Pyracantha. Fast growing, good for bees, nice berries in winter (red, orange or yellow), vicious thorns.

[Lisasbolt]

I remember teenagers going past my front and grabbing flowers, i remember losing it one time and opened the window and shouted at them. Don´t think they ever pulled anymore.

Good luck with keeping them out.

[4390evans]

Think ill invest in one of those piracanthas, ive got a prunus spinosa but dunno how fast it grows.

[craftymarie]

I can also recommend the pyracantha (we've got the golden sun firethorn which has pretty yellow colour berries) as the spikes on that can be pretty lethal - grows up to about 12 ft and can be trained. What about holly bushes although I think you need a male and female if you want the attractive berries.

[skeggijon]

Japanese Bitter Orange. Very thorny and winter hardy with the benefit of really useful fruits

https://www.victoriananursery.co.uk/...Bitter_Orange/

[roitelet]

Berberis, gros fast and very thorny if kept trimmed will make a thick hedge.

[WilliamD]

Is there one which doesn't grow too tall? Something that'd settle at about three feet high with occasional pruning? I've a similar problem with a gap between established hedge plants. I just have the idea that something which is naturally very tall would be all stem if I kept trimming it at three feet.

[Jay22]

Yes we have Berberis and can vouch for it...blooming lethal. Also the Pyracantha is great too, huge thrones and beautiful berries in the autumn. The neighbours had one but chopped it down when they build an extension and rejigged their garden.

[Jay22]

William, the Berberis makes a fantastic hedge!

[WilliamD]

Thanks Jay.

[Nicos]

....and maybe a low gooseberry hedge in front of it?

[noviceveggrower]

By my mom and dads they had several break ins and the local PC told my dad to put that trellising up that you can squish together or pull out to fill ant gaps in a fence, on top of a gate or a wall.
Are they coming in over a wall or a gap?
But plant wise how about a hawthorn bush. Thorns are nasty but the berries are very useful for wildlife

[Small pumpkin]

I would go with electric fenceing, razor wire or a sniper sat in the apple tree! But if you think that is a bit OTT I would go with sea buckthorn.
http://http://www.tree-shop.co.uk/pr....3Xr7mfxP.dpbs

[Bonsai Si]

Pyracantha, Berberis or Hawthorn are all good choices.

If those fail, contact the MOD and see if they are having a sale on Claymore mines which will deffo work, just make sure the arrows point away from your house unless you want a few hundred ventilation holes in your brick work.