Using your defensive planting

How to use defensive planting in your garden

This section of the website looks at defensive planting in greater detail, showing how and where to use different varieties to prevent burlary.

Tall prickly shrubs such as Berberis Julianae or Ilex.

Low shrubs so that natural surveillance will not be impeded.

Dense shrubs such as Berberis Stenophylla and Mahonia

Water features can also form part of a defensive boundary.

Good lighting to the front and rear on dusk to dawn sensors

Lay gravel, to hear people or vehicles approaching.

Date Updated: 06/04/09