Planting tips for home security.
Many people don’t even consider their landscaping as a home defense. Long before the age of security systems plants have been used for securing homesteads, animals and property lines.
Anyone who has ever been a gardener and felt the thorns of a barberry plant knows the plants natural self defense. This plants basic defense can be utilized into a home defense.
First story windows can be an enticing entrance for burglars. Placing thorny plants at this level is a great deterrent. (It also works to keep the troubled teen from using it as a midnight sneak out)
One thing when planning a defensive landscape design is to also consider fire safety.
If the plants make it harder for a criminal to get in, it also makes it harder for you to get out.
A quick fix is always have a good fire safety plan.
Blankets thrown on the shrubs allow for a quick way around the thorns that are usually easy and accessible in a bedroom.
Along fences especially within an alleyway,
use thorny hedges and shrubs to build a protective barrier around your fence or house. Keeps people out as well as most animals.
Gates are a great place for a climbing rose, to keep intruders from climbing over. Keep all gates padlocked shut.
Planting columnar barberry next to each beam going up a deck prevents a possible climbing position. Defensive planting also allows you to utilize your landscape into herding criminals into your security camera zones. I recommend a security camera at every exterior door location. Make sure your doors have a good quality dead bolt, slider doors have a decent rod in place to keep them closed. French doors or front doors with weak glass on their sides make for an easy break in.
They are an attractive feature but add a safety vulnerability.
You do not have to give up a beautiful landscaping for safety. Their are plenty of beautiful shrubs for year round appeal.
Roses, Barberry, Fuchsia, Hawthorn, Oregon Grape, Pyracantha, Holly and Crown of Thorns to name a few. All are good, protective, yet eye catching plants that add to any garden.
Know your own USDA Hardiness zone.
Use this link to find your zone and what grows best in your area.
https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/
Going to a good well known local nursery will also be very beneficial. They can show you what plants they have that are a thorn variety and the sizes in which they grow.
Low voltage outdoor lighting can also add a lighted property that makes it tough for anyone to sneak onto you’re property without being seen. While adding an amazing highlight to any landscaping It also allows security cameras to pick up possible intruders easier.
With the new LED designs they are efficient and low cost to operate.
With some basic planning you can improve you’re home’s defense.
Within this short article I hope it at least starts the conversation of home defense.
“If you don’t build castles in the air you won’t build anything on the ground”
Victor Hugo
Many people don’t even consider their landscaping as a home defense. Long before the age of security systems plants have been used for securing homesteads, animals and property lines.
Anyone who has ever been a gardener and felt the thorns of a barberry plant knows the plants natural self defense. This plants basic defense can be utilized into a home defense.
First story windows can be an enticing entrance for burglars. Placing thorny plants at this level is a great deterrent. (It also works to keep the troubled teen from using it as a midnight sneak out)
One thing when planning a defensive landscape design is to also consider fire safety.
If the plants make it harder for a criminal to get in, it also makes it harder for you to get out.
A quick fix is always have a good fire safety plan.
Blankets thrown on the shrubs allow for a quick way around the thorns that are usually easy and accessible in a bedroom.
Along fences especially within an alleyway,
use thorny hedges and shrubs to build a protective barrier around your fence or house. Keeps people out as well as most animals.
Gates are a great place for a climbing rose, to keep intruders from climbing over. Keep all gates padlocked shut.
Planting columnar barberry next to each beam going up a deck prevents a possible climbing position. Defensive planting also allows you to utilize your landscape into herding criminals into your security camera zones. I recommend a security camera at every exterior door location. Make sure your doors have a good quality dead bolt, slider doors have a decent rod in place to keep them closed. French doors or front doors with weak glass on their sides make for an easy break in.
They are an attractive feature but add a safety vulnerability.
You do not have to give up a beautiful landscaping for safety. Their are plenty of beautiful shrubs for year round appeal.
Roses, Barberry, Fuchsia, Hawthorn, Oregon Grape, Pyracantha, Holly and Crown of Thorns to name a few. All are good, protective, yet eye catching plants that add to any garden.
Know your own USDA Hardiness zone.
Use this link to find your zone and what grows best in your area.
https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/
Going to a good well known local nursery will also be very beneficial. They can show you what plants they have that are a thorn variety and the sizes in which they grow.
Low voltage outdoor lighting can also add a lighted property that makes it tough for anyone to sneak onto you’re property without being seen. While adding an amazing highlight to any landscaping It also allows security cameras to pick up possible intruders easier.
With the new LED designs they are efficient and low cost to operate.
With some basic planning you can improve you’re home’s defense.
Within this short article I hope it at least starts the conversation of home defense.
“If you don’t build castles in the air you won’t build anything on the ground”
Victor Hugo
