![]() Get a couple of attractive planters - the kind with with a rolled rim.Obtain a tube of printing ink paste.Obtain a tin of axle grease.Mix axle grease throrougly with printing ink (wear old clothes and gloves).Invert the planters and use an old paintbrush to apply the mixture liberally to the underside of the rolled rims.Fill them with soil and whatever plants are appropriate for this time of year in your locality (winter-flowering pansies and polyanthus in my case).Place them in a prominent position in your yard.Wait for someone to complain about indelible stains on their hands and clothing. I'm not sure if it's possible to put up some fence/hedge/border and retain that advantage. How about some well placed rocks?Wouldn't any hedge tall enough to discourage my nasty little thieves also give pretty much the same look/scale problem as a hedge?Also, I kind of like the fact that the yard is open enough that if somebody were lurking in my bushes, then he/she would be visible from the (not unbusy) road. Make the little vandals pay with bits of their flesh! Maybe an arbor with a gate at your front walk would pass with the historic people also. I would like to suggest a hedge of pricker bushes of some sort. ![]()
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