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Wildlife friendly planting for security

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It does indeed @Dovefromabove, you have to be strict with it   ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Berberis for me, we’ve got it around our oil tank as well. 
    Pyracanthas also very good.  
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BrexiteerBrexiteer Posts: 955
    What you got an oil tank for mate ??
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited October 2019
    We used it near ours at last house too @Lyn. Pyracantha anyway. It was near the entrance gate, so handy if anyone fancied trying to nick any   ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Recommended by the police, anything very prickly is good. . @Fairygirl
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Chaenomeles cathayensis - bigger and stronger than the usual japanese form with spines that would keep a bear out. Very vicious but gets a bit tall.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I don't get many bears @steephill - although some of the neighbours are a bit dodgy.... :D
    I hadn't thought of Chaenomeles - it's a good shout.
    Having been out tidying up round the base of my Mahonia recently - I'm thinking that's an even  better deterrent than Pyracantha  :s
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    No bears in Scotland, that surprises me,  I haven’t seen one for quite a while, badgers, foxes and deer, perhaps they don’t like the prickly plants. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    There's usually a few bears knocking around the town on a Saturday night @Lyn - when they've had a few too many sherberts   ;)
      
    We do have badgers not far away, but there's been some building activity or something going on round that area, so I don't know if they've been disturbed. Might take a look next time I'm going past. I used to see them visiting gardens,  when I went to collect daughter from work on her later nights. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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