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At last I've finished my fence ... the one that stopped me getting to the Festival of 1000 bikes a few weeks ago. Hopefully this will stop any more thieving souls from entering from the alley-way the back of the garden.

It has been quite an effort for me and my youngest lad, Joe - plenty of concrete and tree roots to battle with but at last the 29m of northern border is secured!

Half way through .... the bit we'd done ...


..... and the bit still to do ....



And the finished job ...









Just the clearing up to do .... which includes the dozen trees we felled .... and the final part of the southern defences - the other project we have underway ....

cracking job andy hope it stops the fuckers.

reminds me of that wall I did for Hadrian.

Shall we start a DIY thread then now??...i've got some plastering pics to post

...by the way aren't you going to paint it gold and black??

Nice Job!!!

Andy cut some wedges for the top of the panels otherwise the thieving scumbags will just lift the panels and step right in!!!


Gary

kneescratch wrote:Nice Job!!!

Andy cut some wedges for the top of the panels otherwise the thieving scumbags will just lift the panels and step right in!!!


Gary

Don't worry - the panels are firmly locked in place

Nice Job
May I suggest some razors in the top to help any inveterate climbers?

Aladinsaneuk wrote:Nice Job
May I suggest some razors in the top to help any inveterate climbers?

The mrs wants the garden prettifying ..... so I'm considering that the inside of the fence may support a trellis that in turn may support some very attractive climbing roses etc. These may well climb right to the top of the fence .....

They can do you for stopping unwelcome visitors with razor wire, broken glass, machine gun nests etc but I believe natural hazards such as thorny plants are fine

D-Rider wrote:

Aladinsaneuk wrote:Nice Job
May I suggest some razors in the top to help any inveterate climbers?

They can do you for stopping unwelcome visitors with razor wire, broken glass, machine gun nests etc but I believe natural hazards such as thorny plants are fine

Not if you have a sign prominently displayed...

Check your nearest military establishment for details...

I do a nice line in razorwire and reels of barbed wire by the way..

.... so if I were to use some razorwire (with suitably displayed notice) as a support for my climbing roses, this may even have the benefit of making them self-pruning .....

Like your thinking, Batman.

Having not employed razorwire in a horticultural manner, I couldnt comment.

Looks more impressive from that side mate.. Looked blummin good from the garden side! And I could see what you meant by all those tree roots.. YIKES!

Me dad wants to know when you're going to do his

Very impressive, who said you were just a pretty face

Pyracantha makes an effective barrier. Very prickly, evergreen (usually),loads of florets, followed by lots of orange/red berries, to which birds are very partial in the autumn.

Perhaps interplanted with some of the red-foliaged Berberis, - some varieties of which have even more ferocious thorns, which can break off flush with the skin, so what's embedded can't be removed easily, and the wound then turns septic. Especially if you periodically coat them with e.g. dog-poo.

You can also grow climbers through them - annual sweet peas, everlasting sweet peas, nasturtiums, tropaeolum, some clematis (Montana??) all work.

Bloody good job, Andy. Looks like very hard work. Well done

MartDude wrote: - some varieties of which have even more ferocious thorns, which can break off flush with the skin, so what's embedded can't be removed easily, and the wound then turns septic. Especially if you periodically coat them with e.g. dog-poo.

You're just a mean old man!