E P P I N G F O R E S T D I S T R I C T S A F E R C O M M U N I T I E S P A R T N E R S H I P EE P P P P I I N N G G F F O O R R E E S S T T D D I I S S T T R R I I C C T T S S A A F F E E R R C C O O M M M M U U N N I I T T I I E E S S P P A A R R T T N N E E R R S S H H I I P P Garden and Perimeter Keep your home secure Lock ＇em Out Security

This leaflet offers advice on how you can protect the boundaries of your Description Size Cultivation Uses property. The results can look very pleasing and still provide an excellent : Crataegus Monogyna - Common name: Common Hawthorn level of security.

Evergreen Bushy Tree, spiny 4-8 metres Any aspect, full or Useful specimen trees Thieves don’t like to be heard. Noisy branches. Cream in spring, part shade. for town, coastal or gravel on the approach to the house dark red fruit in autumn. UK exposed gardens. Can • which gives away their presence is native. Full size 20-50 years be used for hedging. ideal. A water feature not only looks great in the garden but a pond can also Description Size Cultivation Uses • form a barrier to prevent a thief from getting to a vulnerable shed or Plant: Rosa Rugosa ‘Alba’ - Common name: White Wrinkled Rose house window. Hardy Deciduous bushy rose or 1-1.5 metres Any aspect easy to Hedging/screens in The general rule for the front of the . White flowers in autumn grow in full or partial beds. house is to keep boundary fences • and hedges low to allow as much and summer. Red fruit in autumn sunlight. natural surveillance as possible from and summer. Full size 2-5 years neighbours and passing pedestrians and traffic. Keep and trees well pruned to avoid any hiding Description Size Cultivation Uses places. Criminals do not like climbing Plant: Verruculosa - Common name: Warted Barberry through prickly and hedges. Hardy evergreen, bushy shrub. 1-1.5 metres Any aspect and soil Hedging/screens in • They know that a small item of ripped clothing or blood can help the police Yellow flowers in spring. Black and except waterlogged. flower beds. identify them. We have produced a blue berries in autumn. A sunny position will list of plants which can be used to Full size 10-20 years encourage fruiting. enhance your security. The list is not exhaustive but includes some of our favourites. Description Size Cultivation Uses Always remember that these plants Plant: Berberis Darwinii - Common name: Darwin’s Barberry are capable of causing injury to friend or foe, please consider this if you have Hardy evergreen, bushy shrub. 1.5 - 2.5 Any aspect and soil Low maintenance, young children. Orange and red flowers in spring. metres except waterlogged. hedging/screens, Black and blue berries in summer. A sunny position will banks, slopes. Keep your home secure Full size 10-20 years encourage fruiting. Lock ＇＇＇em Out

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Plant: Berberis Stenophylla - Common name: Golden Barberry Plant: Mahonia Media ‘Winter Sun’- Common name: Oregon Grape ‘Winter Sun’

Hardy, evergreen, spiny bushy, 2.5 – 4 Any aspect and soil Low maintenance Hardy evergreen, spiny, bushy, 2.5-4 metres Any aspect, full sun Low maintenance shrub. Yellow scented flowers meters except waterlogged. hedging and shrub. Erect racemes of scented (2.5 max or part shade, in well flower borders and yellow flowers in winter. Black in Spring, Black & blue berries A sunny position screening. and Blue berries in winter. spread) drained soil. Good for beds. Autumn. Full size in 10-20 years encourages fruiting Full size 10-20 years woodland setting.

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Plant: Berberis Julianae - Common name: Wintergreen Barberry Plant: Pyracantha ‘Orange Glow’- Common name: Firethorn ‘Orange Glow’

Hardy, evergreen, busy shrub. 2.5-4 metres Any aspect and soil Low maintenance Hardy evergreen shrub, very 1.5-2.5 Full sun or part shade, Drought resistant, low Prickly foliage. Red and yellow except water logged. hedging and spiny stems. White flowers in metres any aspect, in well maintenance hedging flowers in spring. Black berries in A sunny position will screening, banks, summer. Dark orange berries in drained fertile soil. and screening. Wall autumn. Full size 10-20 years encourage fruiting. slopes, coastal. autumn. Full size 10-20 years Tolerant to pollution. side borders.

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Plant: Ilex Aquifolium ‘Ferox Argentea’- Common name: Silver Hedgehog Holly Plant: Chaenomeles Superba - Common name: Japanese Quince ‘Crimson Gold’

Hardy evergreen, bushy shrub. Tightly 4-8 metres Any aspect. Easy to Architectural Hardy evergreen shrub, very 1.5-2.5 Full sun or part shade, Drought resistant, low packed spines on . White flowers (2.5-4m grow in full sunlight spiny stems. White flowers in metres any aspect, in well maintenance hedging in summer and spring, purple stem. Red berries in Autumn. Male plants-no spread) in a well rained soil. summer. Dark orange berries in drained fertile soil. and screening. Wall berries. Full size 20-50 years autumn. Full size 10-20 years Tolerant to pollution. side borders.