A tall prickly hedge.

Due to the Governments altering planning law every farmer in the area I live has bunged in planning applications in an attempt to bury the village under a sea of concrete. As a result the farmland at the rear of the place that I live may be built on.

Could anyone advise me as to what sort of ever green hedging has the following characteristics.

1. To grow at least eight feet tall.
2. To have prickly leaves.
3. To be evergreen.
4. To be very thick.

 

holly?, if you keep it pruned etc. but you will have to garden with solves as dry holly leaves are pretty prickly. Otherwise, consider a ready-made wooden fence on which ivy or some of the more vigorous and prickly roses can grow on until it rots, by which time they'll be able to take over by themselves.

 

Its the exact situation where you get people planting Leylandii.
Something fast and you cant see through.

Does it have to be prickly?

I'd go for a fence with a rampant clematis or similar. At the same time planting slower growing hedging conifers like yew. to be a more permanent barrier.

 

why does the hedge have to be pricky?

 

I would say Holly as well , pine tree or laurel tree

 

Holly. It's easily trimmed to make a dense hedge and has the advantage of providing berries for the birds in winter.

 

Holly is a good option. So too are Berberis, most are deciduous B. darwinii is evergreen. Also B. x stenophylla. B julianae has the meanest spikes of all but not as tall.

 

Pyracantha, Victory
is a good hedging plant, but it doesn't have prickley leaves, it has thorns, white flower for the bees, a berries for the birds, evergreen, grows tall
Or
Mahonia
but this plant may become thin in the base,prickley leaves,evergreen and grows tall