"...with a little path running down the middle, for that 'layered' effect..."
Posted on 05/28/2006 2:27:17 PM PDT by TSchmereL
Sounds like Monty Python
Why? If it is made from thorny bushes, poison ivy, Venus flytraps and the like [and liberally infested with poisonous snakes and spiders], it might work.
Hope they're planting Bois de Arc. That's also known as osage orange. Pioneers used to plant it on the prairies instead of fencing. It's almost too tough to cut and covered with thorns. It kept cattle in for generations.
But can it keep out a Chevy Suburban?
thanks for the best laugh I've had in days.
"...with a little path running down the middle, for that 'layered' effect..."
Pretty green leaves aren't gonig to keep illegals out.
Guns + fences + resolve - Hispanic vote pandering is what will keep illegals out.
The hedge rows of France did a good job of stopping American Tanks.
Do you realize how easy it will be to pour a few gallons of herbicide on these plants? They will die overnight from just one dose.
Osage Orange seedlings used to be sold from ads in farm magazines. It was claimed to be "horse high, bull strong, and goat tight". (Coyotes driving trucks were not foreseen back then).
How many hundreds of years of growth were in them?
Its entirely in keeping with Mexican historical data. Historically in Mexico and the southwest, it was common practice to plant hedges of prickly pear cactus around wheat fields, gardens and ranchos too keep out animal and human marauders.
My first thought was "who are they gonna get to trim the hedges?"
Before the invention of barbed wire in the 1880's, many thousands of miles of hedge were constructed by planting young Osage Orange trees closely together in a line. The saplings were aggressively pruned to promote bushy growth. "Horse high, bull strong and hog tight." Those were the criteria for a good hedge made with Osage Orange. Tall enough that a horse would not jump it, stout enough that a bull would not push through it and woven so tightly that even a hog could not find its way through! After barbed wire made hedge fences obsolete, the trees still found use as a source of unbeatable fence posts. The wood is strong and so dense that it will neither rot nor succumb to the attacks of termites or other insects for decades. The trees also found use as an effective component of windbreaks and shelterbelts.
I am considering a trip to the border to hang the first pair of pink underpants on the Border Laundry Clothesline. I will bring my own high-security clothespins....
Hedges of prickly pear cactus takes years and years to grow to any size at all, and that is assuming a lot of water is available. I can drive my Jeep easily through most desert prickly pear cactus groves.
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