Good hedge options?

[Jim147]

Osage Orange.
Horse high, bull strong and hog tight in 5 years.

http://www.okgenweb.org/~okmurray/Murray/stories/how_the_west_was_really_won.htm

We don't call it hedge for nothing.


jim

[charby]

Filberts.

You're freaking nuts. Unless you're growing them for food, it's one of the plants you don't want anywhere near your property. Damn stuff is the T-1000 of invasive species. Just about the only things worse are cheat grass and kudzu. At least kudzu doesn't grow thorns.

Blackberries/raspberries are at least a native plant.

[charby]

Alianthus ("Tree of Heaven")  Plant them thick, and then top them at about 10 feet.

I was gonna say bamboo, but then I saw you already considered that.

You could also put up field fencing and cover it with honeysuckle.

Tree of heavan is a non native and invasive. This plant spreads like crazy, and will choke out native species.

[Regolith]

Blackberries/raspberries are at least a native plant.

The most common types around here aren't. They're from southwest Asia and Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_armeniacus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_laciniatus