The BEST Fence to keep people and predators OFF your property

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  • Опубликовано: 1 дек 2024
  • #bestfence #fence #bestpropertyfence #diyfence #propertydefence
    #homesteading #ruralliving #countryliving #countrylife #propertyimprovements #multiflorarosebush #rosebushes #multiflorarose

Комментарии • 273

  • @bobgonzo2531
    @bobgonzo2531 3 месяца назад +234

    In medieval times in Europe they used to plant hawthorn around their castles if it’s deep enough it’s like razor wire

  • @robertgregory6693
    @robertgregory6693 2 месяца назад +135

    As an avid Gardner I will say that you should consider well and do your home work before you introduce any aggressive plant to your property . What seems like a good idea could be your biggest regret. Bamboo is a good example.

  • @Trackheads1
    @Trackheads1 3 месяца назад +131

    Thank you sir for this info. I have 62 acres and as qtr mile of road frontage. I get folks cutting through my property on ATVs and sometimes hunters. Because we haven't moved on the property yet it's hard to regulate and I was reluctantly thinking fencing was gonna be my only solution. This suggestion is GOLDEN!. Maybe that will keep the tresspassers from entering and removing my cameras 😡

    • @Aloysius98
      @Aloysius98 3 месяца назад +41

      In key areas, reinforce the planted multa-flora rose with chicken wire fencing makes it really tough. Also I have heard it's bad time for quads and such passing through if they get scraps of chicken wire wrapped in thier axles and drive train sucks, it's a real pain in the ass to untangle...

  • @tjpit
    @tjpit 2 месяца назад +72

    Orange Osage is indigenous and was used as livestock fence before barbed wire. It is a great hardwood used for bows, furniture, good firewood. Very pretty wood. The wood is very rot resistant for fence post and it has nasty thorns and can be woven into a living fence. The fruit seeds can be eaten by squirrels, not much else. It also won’t take over. The fruit can be a bit of a pain on a lawn.

  • @lguz386
    @lguz386 3 месяца назад +371

    We should put this down at southern boarder ,even the northern , LOL thank you God bless you .

  • @thereseschab5042
    @thereseschab5042 3 месяца назад +70

    I used to live in the PNW for most of my life. Blackberries are good ones also.

  • @robertjosan
    @robertjosan 2 месяца назад +17

    Thank you for saving us thousands of of dollars $$$ on fencing for privacy and security 🙏💙

  • @gg3456-qr1yk
    @gg3456-qr1yk 3 месяца назад +97

    I was told yrs ago to plant rosebushes under your windows and it will prevent most home break ins. Thanks for the name of the bush you mentioned😊

  • @KenziBabenzi
    @KenziBabenzi Месяц назад +17

    Brings new light to the prayer for a "hedge of protection" that we pray for as Christians! ❤️

  • @florenceannroberts1066
    @florenceannroberts1066 2 месяца назад +92

    Rosa Multiflora is horrendous! It has become invasive throughout our wild lands and displaced native plants. NO-ONE should plant it purposely! It spreads not only vegetatively, but also by birds dropping seeds. I have fought these for years.😢

  • @jameslockard6956
    @jameslockard6956 2 месяца назад +33

    I knew a farm family 5 generation in Tennessee. A hedge row border of Blackberry briar planted with Bull Holley and wild Cherokee rose. The hedge rows were 6 to 10 feet thick.

  • @closetprepper894
    @closetprepper894 2 месяца назад +27

    I have this and can’t get rid of it! I swear it reaches out and grabs me!

  • @outbackeddie
    @outbackeddie 2 месяца назад +35

    The Maasai tribes in Africa surround their villages with a thorn bush that even lions don't mess with. I asked the chief if hyenas, baboons, or lions ever got into the enclosure to get at their cattle and he laughed and said no. It's interesting that farmers and homesteaders here in the states are doing the same thing as these Maasai tribes.

  • @SoundStream101
    @SoundStream101 3 месяца назад +69

    💯 agree and can vouch for this!.. back in the 90s we were just some teenagers playing some football in my buddies yard and the edge of his yard was lined with these, my friends little brother got a handoff and was running down that side and tripped out of bounds into one of these, and when I tell you it took 20 minutes to get him out.. it took us 20 minutes to get him out lol. He was a bloody mess with tears it was like he was thrown into 6 foot pile of fishing hooks, we had to surgically cut him out of it!.. I kid you not.

  • @jamesphillips496
    @jamesphillips496 3 месяца назад +22

    That is awesome! The other thing you showed us was the bear deterrent where you hammered nails into plywood and layed down with the sharp points up. To put in front of doors and windows that was really neat.

  • @user-sb6jo5yi4z
    @user-sb6jo5yi4z 2 месяца назад +21

    In CA, bougainvillea work the same way. Very thorny (thorns can be 1” or more) and thick!

  • @markmace1824
    @markmace1824 2 месяца назад +7

    Oh yes, I remember this bush ! I haven’t come across it in many years I was in the landscape business for decades, and you are so right about that bush! If you try to go through this bush you will be in a world of pain ! If I remember isn’t there like 2-3 inches thorns on this thing pointing every Wich way ?
    Thanks for this update. I won’t be needing it, but if I did, that would be the bush that I would be using.!!!! Mark from NY.

  • @silver-en7kl
    @silver-en7kl 3 месяца назад +105

    We use 10 foot x 6 foot construction fence panels. So far we’ve invested $50k in panels. They are metal and good to keep our goats and chickens and dogs in. We let blackberry go wild on them which makes them even stronger and more impenetrable. Our electrician said we could turn our fencing into a high voltage barrier very easily as well. Love your channel. Something tells me they’re gonna drop another plandemic on us in the coming days.

  • @theresaowen2708
    @theresaowen2708 3 месяца назад +57

    I planted roses mixed with blackberries to form a low hedge across my front property by the road. The berries help the hedge double as a food source. Chickens love the roses.

  • @snow_tacknives2024
    @snow_tacknives2024 2 месяца назад +6

    I did the same thing with Wisteria vines! They're beautiful and yet so thick once established nothing can cross unless them unless you're in a military tank. What's great about the wisteria vines is you can custom cut arches and hideout sections. They produce beautiful blooming pedal flowers. Wisterias climb by twining their stems around any available support. W. floribunda (Japanese wisteria) twines clockwise when viewed from above, while W. sinensis (Chinese wisteria) twines counterclockwise. Again, they can be countered and made into wall huts, arches and hideout sections. They can go up to 33 feet high and each twist scaffold can produce a wisteria wall 10 feet wide, when you spread them they fill in nicely and can be cut to a solid squared vine wall!

  • @MerwinARTist
    @MerwinARTist 2 месяца назад +39

    If you don't want the rose to grow in an area .. mow or cut it down and then put a chicken pen/tractor over it. If you want to keep chickens in the pen .. plant this rose around the pen. I agree with this video message!

  • @lisafrequency55
    @lisafrequency55 2 месяца назад +19

    I have been training my multiflora rose to surround my property for several years. You are right that stuff is vicious.

  • @haleyjae4145
    @haleyjae4145 3 месяца назад +29

    Thank you Kevin. I learned something new. Very interesting 💚

  • @Treeguybill
    @Treeguybill 2 месяца назад +5

    My customers are asking for pyracantha again crime is so bad in cali , I have grown rootstock wild roses they also make a wall , they bloom red flowers with rose hips . Blackberry is also good to fence off property and you get fruit . The thornless blackberries are very popular easy to maintain and grow , they may also make a privacy fence because people think they are thorny just by the look . Great channel!!

  • @quinntheeskimooutdoors6234
    @quinntheeskimooutdoors6234 2 месяца назад +6

    I can attest you speak the truth 😊I had some of this on my property at the edge of town. I had to take it down because it keeps spreading.
    The tea from the flowers is absolutely the best😊 Thanks

  • @sweetpeanmolly
    @sweetpeanmolly 2 месяца назад +110

    Multiflora Rose is HIGHLY AGGRESSIVE! The seeds are viable for twenty years! Imagine millions of them! Our property is surrounded by them. They have totally taken over pushing out all native plants, thus our property is highly unbalanced. I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone! Sorry. But you are right! No one can get through it!

  • @MarieTrull
    @MarieTrull Месяц назад +1

    Love, love. love your videos. Thank you.

  • @proteinman1981
    @proteinman1981 2 месяца назад +10

    I have a bougainvillea fence here in Australia, beautiful and thorny.

  • @gn1107
    @gn1107 2 месяца назад +7

    We had these around our house and property when i was a child in the 70s . They smell amazing, they are exactly as you say, do not tangle with these

  • @justincase1575
    @justincase1575 2 месяца назад +15

    I have some growing around my place. I like it! Smells good and I am planting raspberries where the roses are not located.

  • @nataliemanor4458
    @nataliemanor4458 2 месяца назад +3

    thank you for the info. Just found your site. I also use stinging nettle which can be a tea and as nutrients, but you know if you bush it. It Stings for hours. Great deterrent.

  • @christoFlair777
    @christoFlair777 3 месяца назад +41

    Also everyone!! Hathorn, barberry,thistle!! Good stuff!!

  • @HerSoulVacation
    @HerSoulVacation 2 месяца назад +6

    I was planning to get rid of these crazy humongous bushes but now I’m going to surround my property with it! Excellent tip, thank you! 👏

  • @CGI929
    @CGI929 3 месяца назад +12

    Thank you for the valuable info. So sad we need to do these things today 😢

  • @runcheatthereaper9016
    @runcheatthereaper9016 2 месяца назад +5

    Blackberry bushes grow well over here on the west side of the State of Washington and they are thorny, impenetrable and the blackberries are good.

  • @pcionr
    @pcionr 3 месяца назад +12

    I really apreciate it. I’m on my way of moving to the country and I was thinking about this. This came just in time.

  • @tomh4591
    @tomh4591 2 месяца назад +6

    as a service industry technician having to work near power meter/cable box/phone box, i concur. lots of people like to put holly bushes and the likes to "protect/conceal" their unsightly utilities, NOT COOL people, lol. i would have to keep large pieces of thick cardboard, like boxes for refrigerators for example, to make a man sized shield to press my way in to work on stuff. good times. and those places, often times even though wasps/spiders/snakes like the concealment and warmth of said utility boxes, its ALWAYS the ones with the painful bushes behind me when they swarm out, never fails. holly bush angels/swimming in the stuff trying to flee is no fun.

  • @justincase1575
    @justincase1575 2 месяца назад +17

    I mounted a circular saw blade on my weed wackier to trim them.

  • @mungodarkmatter
    @mungodarkmatter 3 месяца назад +12

    We had a variety of those around some of the edges of our property when I was growing up. I think they are even worse when you run into them in the wild where they have never been pruned back. I remember having to cut them and it was a pain gathering the cut branches because you had to be careful. They were pretty deceptive in that if you did not know they had thorns you might not notice at first, and even if you did know about them they were hard to avoid entirely when you were cutting and moving them. They were like barbed wire almost.

  • @silviatubausole4480
    @silviatubausole4480 3 месяца назад +10

    I've learned something new. Thank you. ♥

  • @CarolReidCA
    @CarolReidCA 2 месяца назад +5

    Pyracantha works well, too, and prolly isn't as invasive.
    Florabunda roses work well, and aren't invasive, and there are some beautiful tea roses like these that put out huge roses. I have some in my yard.
    The raccoons like to hide under them, and cats need to be careful around them.
    These are great for under and around windows. It works. You can put in a hedgerow and keep it trimmed, much like a topiary, and it will deter people and most animals from coming around there.
    They do get some aphids in tge spring, so get a friend's ashtray, ask if you can have their ashes and butt's. Put in a container with water, and make a "tea" if sorts.
    Then spray or pour over the branches when aphids start showing up. It will only smell like an ashtray for a day or 2. Your rosebuds will be beautiful and not eaten when they bloom. You'll go from ashtray to rose scent in just a week or two, as aphids generally show up about a week or 2 before the roses bloom.
    Nice video. Some of us have done this for years.
    Do NOT fall in these bushes, or Lord help you!
    That said, I wouldn't plant any invasive species. It may even be illegal.

  • @SUCHKAALENA
    @SUCHKAALENA 2 месяца назад +51

    Don’t plant it! It’s invasive!

  • @stepabove2136
    @stepabove2136 2 месяца назад +4

    This will be great for keeping out intruders 😮 I'm subscribing to your channel for this information 😮.

  • @jimmey011
    @jimmey011 3 месяца назад +7

    Fantastic information. Thank you ! !

  • @rosewhich
    @rosewhich 2 месяца назад +4

    Hi.....just wanting to tell you that I appreciated your video. Surprisingly few people think of planting thorny stuff as a defense. I live on a tropical island so I use bouganvilla as roses do not do too well here.

  • @tedm4932
    @tedm4932 2 месяца назад +9

    Can you imagine our total border very thick and tall with this plant ! ! !

  • @Hotrodford
    @Hotrodford 3 месяца назад +11

    That’s wicked stuff right there. We have a type of rose bush we dug up from around an old house here in Texas. It has small pinkish white rose blooms. I wonder if it’s the same thing.? We were told it was an old type rose not a hybrid modern type. I easily transplanted it along my chain link fence and it took off and grows tall. Its thorns are wicked and if you brush up against it the thorns will break off in your skin. It easily spreads. You can take a cutting and plant it and it will grow pretty easily.

  • @citysleuth5713
    @citysleuth5713 3 месяца назад +12

    Kevin, I think your political content regarding current events is really good. I'm from the local area and I had no idea just how bad that bridge has gotten so I appreciate the information.

  • @PINENEEDLE910
    @PINENEEDLE910 2 месяца назад +11

    Georgia’s Cherokee Rose grows rapidly and has many dangerous thorns. Can grow to 15 to 20 foot in height and 10 to 15 foot in width.

  • @sd8023
    @sd8023 2 месяца назад +4

    Very interesting on the multi floral rose bush.. RUclips introduced me to your channel and I’m so happy they did. I think it’s a great one to watch and I subscribed… I am looking forward to a lot of good information that I know I will get….

  • @patriciavanfossen4162
    @patriciavanfossen4162 2 месяца назад +14

    granted the nutritional benefits are there but WOW they are fast spreading and vicious. it is a real mixed bag. it takes a LOT to keep it under control. I've been dealing with this rose my whole life long. it's hard work.

  • @Ziv-pm6ip
    @Ziv-pm6ip 2 месяца назад +4

    Yes, I vouch for this as we had it lining our creek and even deer won't jump it (no human will try it) - but wildlife look for an easy break to work a daily path to the water. It is something I wouldn't plant unless you have acreage to allow wild growth to just hedge your property. The deer would bed down next to it for security we didn't have dogs on our property and does would raise their young in our barnyard. We also had unchecked blackberry and forsythia bush next to thick pines and it will also create an area of plenty that large predators or people cannot get over but the small wildlife use it for cover and (our chickens free-ranged with this as their escape from hawks). We didn't trim too much but we had a wooden bridge over the creek and the roses had to be cut there seasonally to allow access to the other side. If you create this kind of habitat you will have a ton of wildlife...but it does keep out humans but coyotes, neighbor dogs still found breaks to come in under cattle fence. Yes....no one messes with multi-flora unless they want to pick hips or they just want privacy.

  • @tairam9383
    @tairam9383 2 месяца назад +1

    Great idea. Thank you for a beautiful solution.

  • @beavischrist5
    @beavischrist5 3 месяца назад +14

    Subscribed, from the Netherlands. You know the country of wind mills,woodenshoes and borekale with wurst😂

  • @riekodi5508
    @riekodi5508 Месяц назад

    Thanks so much for sharing this info. God bless you!

  • @smc7929
    @smc7929 2 месяца назад +2

    My folks referred to them as war roses as they were used in place of fence during metal shortage.

  • @christinacurrey1119
    @christinacurrey1119 2 месяца назад +7

    i have planted jujubee trees along one side of my place. If someone hops over the privacy fence they will scream. big razor-sharp thorns. There are other trees and bushes as well.

  • @susansupino4011
    @susansupino4011 2 месяца назад +5

    Ya, I’m good. I will use an alternative method. I don’t need some thing that’s going to take over my whole yard. Bad enough I have raspberry bushes trying to take over my yard that’s one heck of a battle trying to get rid of those. I don’t need any rosebushes. Good luck to everybody else if that’s what you want to do.

  • @darylefleming1191
    @darylefleming1191 2 месяца назад +1

    I grew up on a farm and my dad used this to separate different fields for our cows.

  • @agirlyman
    @agirlyman Месяц назад +1

    Fascinating, and brilliant🤔

  • @chanchan5349
    @chanchan5349 3 месяца назад +12

    Trifoliate orange trees are also a great deterrent. It’s used as rootstock, does fruit but the fruit is very bitter. We would gather the fruit as spiders bug protection in outbuildings, basements, and animals will not consume it. The thorns are monsters! They are grown as hedges as well.

  • @cher4705
    @cher4705 3 месяца назад +55

    In our neck of the woods, the multicolor rose is spread by the birds which eat the seeds and then poop them out around the property. They don't stay in a hedge but grow everywhere else but the place we want them! 😆 🤔

  • @nadie2795
    @nadie2795 2 месяца назад +4

    It's a noxious weed, often used in California as an impenetrable highway divider. Spraying with vegetation killer has only a 50% chance

  • @dianah360
    @dianah360 2 месяца назад +11

    They need to use this to close the boarder !!

  • @JetBirdZ
    @JetBirdZ Месяц назад +2

    If this rose is too invasive, agave kerchovei is worth a look IMHO. It's attractive but very spikey and when densely planted .. impenetrable.🤠

  • @redskies.626
    @redskies.626 3 месяца назад +3

    great video I remember those thorns griong up in PA.

  • @Aloysius98
    @Aloysius98 3 месяца назад +19

    Combine Multa-flora rose planted in front of a Chicken wire fence. Rose will grow into the fence, the fence will give the rose the ability to grow vertical. You now have living barbed wire. You are welcome. Also chicken wire fencing is cheap and last a very long time.

  • @itisfinished430
    @itisfinished430 3 месяца назад +6

    Cool info - your prepared Man of God 👍

  • @suzannemathes8775
    @suzannemathes8775 2 месяца назад +4

    Thank you for this video! I was watching another of your videos a few days ago regarding the j@b and it's effect on your elbow. You may have done this already, but I wanted to suggest that you do some research on castor oil packs. It has many uses and a natural remedy.
    Blessings on you all!

  • @CarlStreet
    @CarlStreet 2 месяца назад

    Like your style and great information -- Thank YOU!

  • @mikecarr4576
    @mikecarr4576 2 месяца назад +4

    A farmer next to my Dad's farm planted a small patch of this in the 1950s. By the 80's it was all over my Dad's farm in untilled areas. It's very nasty to deal with and hard to get rid of. Do not spread it.

  • @debbyengland7512
    @debbyengland7512 2 месяца назад +2

    My grandpa planted these around our property when he got it about 100 years ago now.. They had 12 kids, it was supposed to be a great fence. I grew up playing in the "rose" woods. We had trails all thru this massive multiflora rosebush(175 feet x 30). I guess 12 kids ( and 75 grandkids) needed too many good hide outs. Kept absolutly nothing out, or in. But it made the best hide out😂

  • @maryannaarnold3817
    @maryannaarnold3817 2 месяца назад +20

    I absolutely love your Rose Bush idea to make a border around a property! This Multiflora Rosebush is amazing, thanks for sharing!!!

  • @grasshopper9449
    @grasshopper9449 3 месяца назад +61

    We had those bushes planted on our rural property in the 70's. Sorry, these are a nightmare. They will spread everywhere else as well. Horrendous to remove. They grow out of control.

  • @vincenzo3292
    @vincenzo3292 2 месяца назад +2

    We have several dozen of these, and he is right.

  • @margaretburnham5683
    @margaretburnham5683 2 месяца назад +2

    Holy mackerel! I'm traumatized just hearing about them yet I know that very many of them will be a part of my future...however...I plan to have them fully contained where there is no way for the roots or seeds to spread

  • @leem200
    @leem200 2 месяца назад

    Wow I seen your thumb nail and said he looks like the guy who built the Sq drop camper. Here you are! I subscribed. Peace!

  • @kevinbresnahan3394
    @kevinbresnahan3394 3 месяца назад +3

    Good job 👍. Thanks.

  • @brucem8129
    @brucem8129 2 месяца назад

    New subscriber. Great channel, Praise God.

  • @rachelcasarez4364
    @rachelcasarez4364 2 месяца назад +1

    Great idea . Where we live is coyotes, raccoons, foxes scorpions brown recluses and the worse copperhead snake. Thank you for your video is gonna be helpful in the coming years.

  • @christoFlair777
    @christoFlair777 3 месяца назад +4

    Thanks Kevin!! 🌿🌲🪵🌳as a tree worker in ma. We call it wild rose or billy rose!🤪🤪🤪

  • @dyates6380
    @dyates6380 3 месяца назад +3

    New subscriber. Love your content.

  • @marysalinas3961
    @marysalinas3961 2 месяца назад

    Thank you I have about 3 or 4 Thorn bushes of those roses, nice , they like the fence so I am weaving them ,on the fence, I just like them for their beauty .

  • @thinkforyourselfjohn3163
    @thinkforyourselfjohn3163 3 месяца назад +4

    Thank you for sharing with us. Much appreciated God Bless you.

  • @julesprice5805
    @julesprice5805 2 месяца назад

    Nice information!!!!!
    Thank you

  • @greybone777
    @greybone777 3 месяца назад +4

    Pacific blackberry in western Washington, hawthorn,primrose,and Oregon grape in eastern Washington.

  • @jacquelinejohnson7541
    @jacquelinejohnson7541 3 месяца назад +2

    Great Thank you I'm new to Ur Chanel 👍🤗🙏💖🇬🇧

  • @BlowtheBridge
    @BlowtheBridge 3 месяца назад +17

    I had a girlfriend like that once.
    Subbed 😂✌️

  • @haroldduren8998
    @haroldduren8998 3 месяца назад +9

    Where can I buy the seeds for the border fence for my property?

  • @AlternativeHomesteading
    @AlternativeHomesteading 3 месяца назад

    Thank you for this useful information. I am new to your channel. It was recommned to me two days ago and I am busy watching your videos.

  • @richardclarkesr.9052
    @richardclarkesr.9052 3 месяца назад +4

    I feel the same way you do? I live in Virginia and I'm the same way.

  • @ChrisCalmtheCrazy
    @ChrisCalmtheCrazy 2 месяца назад +6

    You would need to cut those roses to avoid the seeds. Your neighbors will hate you because they consider you the source of the invasive rose.

  • @kalamatagarden6320
    @kalamatagarden6320 2 месяца назад

    hi. great and interesting advice. thank-you

  • @dinebonte4014
    @dinebonte4014 3 месяца назад +1

    Great advise, Kevin!

  • @3catmom
    @3catmom 2 месяца назад +3

    We need this on our border!!

  • @jacquelinejohnson7541
    @jacquelinejohnson7541 3 месяца назад +2

    Sadly live in a small town small town ,if I lived in country this would be a brill idea 👍🇬🇧

  • @TARandFEATHERS
    @TARandFEATHERS 3 месяца назад +11

    They were introduced in 1800's from Japan. The native americans used it ....??

  • @mybestcasa9505
    @mybestcasa9505 3 месяца назад +5

    I hope what I write never happens but here it is... I have had these dreams visions whatever you want to call them. I have had around 4 so far.. One was right after dad died he came to me and told me some things one was he gave me some coins and said save these for hard times you will need them. take this as you wish the second one was, I was looking over and God was with me and he told me look below me there were two women below one was praying the other one was not. He told me to pick one I did and when I kissed her, she pulled away in my vision. I met her sometime later in life and I knew it was her but we got married I don't regret it but it didn't last the one God had for me she was the one that was praying I am with her now. my ex the one mentioned previously she was pregnant with my child but we lost the baby. My third vision was Gad came to me and let me hold him (the child we lost) I could smell him God told me I would meet him in heaven someday. That was 3rd vision and the 4 one is the bad one. I was coming back from Mexico trying to get into the states I was on a bridge and there were people in chaos and fear everywhere the line was backed up people were trying to flee to get out and some were trying to get in across the border. Then I saw it the plume from a Nuclear bomb it was in the states I was so afraid that was the 4th vision. I hope that is not why yours was of the civil unrest you mentioned in your video. This was my first time watching you I subbed. The vision of the bomb I could never understand because I never imagined me living in Mexico. But if you watch my channel then you will understand I am building my dream home by the ocean in Mexico.. Go figure I never thought I would ever live in Mexico But I will soon... Stay off the bridge...

  • @annieann6347
    @annieann6347 3 месяца назад +1

    Thanks for sharing.

  • @catherinehenry6762
    @catherinehenry6762 2 месяца назад +1

    I've had numerous painful encounter with blackberries. Where I live, they are quite invasive, and grow thick and fierce. A hedge can be impenetrable. I don't know whether they are as effective as your multi flowered roses, the thorns are not very strong, but they are many and curved, and grab EVERYTHING, hair, skin, clothes, won't release you, no matter what. My husband used to brush by the canes when mowing on his zero turn mower (very fast.) He'd come home with his arms, legs, neck streaming blood, and being a guy, he wouldn't even think of slowing down.