Kids using garden as shortcut what can i plant?

kimmee

katholicos wrote: »

For years I had problems like this with local kids, the only thing that has made any difference is to erect a visible border to my garden. I would give some thought to erecting a fence of some sort, it doesn't have to be expensive. You can even do it with a few posts and some string....then grow some kind of evergreen creeper (clematis?) up the string to disguise it and you have a 'living wall' that the kids won't be able to walk through. I must say that i think you have been extremely tolerant and i really don't think it teaches these kids to respect other peoples property if something isn't done about it. It's all very well for some people to think these 'little darlings' should have free reign, but it does them no good to grow up thinking they can do what they like, when they like. I am a mother of two teens and i've raised them to be respectful of others and their belongings, but they would get a clip around the ear if it was bought to my attention that they had been disrespectful in this way (and i'm a mum to an 18 year old and a nearly 15 year old LOL!)

Well said kathalicos. I'm mum to a 21 year old and an 18 year old and I've always taught them to be respectful of others and others property. It made me mad that the 'little loves' would just walk past my living room window (and look in :mad:) while their parents would just stand there and say nothing which is why I planted pyracantha! Before it had bushed out I did put a couple of large pots in between the gaps to stop them but now I have a nice very prickly hedge

xmaslolly76

Thank you all for your suggestions i will pop round to the local garden centre and see if they have any of whats been mentioned and pick my favorite. I would put a little fence up but as the property is rented im A. not inclined to spend a fortune on something that cant come with me and B. i dont think the landlord would go for it as its an access alley not a through alley.

I am very tolerent of the littlies they are only 5 at most and as i say they arent doing it to be destructfull in any way they just get carried away the big ones have stopped doing it after a quiet word from me and their parents.

Joly_Roger

Great to hear, good luck. I must say that since the plants in my front garden have grown larger (& more visible) the children haven't stepped on them anymore. I actually had children asking what the plants were and taking an interest in the lavender's fragrant leaves.


I think the problem is that many front gardens are paved over so many children don't expect other people to have plants in theirs. I'm hoping that some of the parents might want to follow suit and green up their patches of tarmac!

floss2

Can I just add the suggestion that nobody plants a corkscrew hazel in the middle of their front lawn if they have no fence/wall around their garden. Mine became a well-used roundabout for the kids in my close to ride around on their bikes when they thought I wasn't looking!

Doing the old-lady thing of standing watching them at the window and knocking if they thought about going round seemed to stop them though!

bengalknights

you could always dig a deep hole and let them fall in it just make sure its deep enough so they cant get out lol