Is there such a thing? I have been considering an inner border for the back block, about 2 metres in from all fencelines except the one between the front and back blocks…mostly to define an area which should be whippersnippered (kind of like a firebreak) but also to provide the wrens and robins, etc (silver eyes?) with some protection from the bigger birds…

Is there a native alternative? I am very fond of lawyer vine and blackberry (?) bushes but the former is not a shrub and the latter is a declared introduced pest.

Dinetta said:

to provide the wrens and robins, etc (silver eyes?) with some protection from the bigger birds…

Is there a native alternative?

Do you have a native nursery near by? There should be stacks of thick dense native shrubs to fill that bill :)

trichome said:

Dinetta said:

to provide the wrens and robins, etc (silver eyes?) with some protection from the bigger birds…

Is there a native alternative?

Do you have a native nursery near by? There should be stacks of thick dense native shrubs to fill that bill :)

I agree. The thicker and denser the better. There are stacks of native shrubs that fill the bill.

No native nursery, unless you can include the road verges as such?

I want something prickly…

Dinetta said:

No native nursery, unless you can include the road verges as such?

I want something prickly…

The Proteaceae are often prickly.

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

Dinetta said:

to provide the wrens and robins, etc (silver eyes?) with some protection from the bigger birds…

Is there a native alternative?

Do you have a native nursery near by? There should be stacks of thick dense native shrubs to fill that bill :)

I agree. The thicker and denser the better. There are stacks of native shrubs that fill the bill.

It’s not prickly but the wrens and other small birds love my Westringia. I keep it trimmed so that it dense on the outside but it remains quite open inside.

My Variegated wrens nested in Melaleuca diosmatifolia and Callistemon phonecious mingled with Grevillea glabella

Bambino Bougs are as thorny as the normal size.

bubba louie said:

Bambino Bougs are as thorny as the normal size.

Thanks Bubba Louie…going to have a look…