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Jan 3, 2024 · Thorny bushes can be planted to create seasonal interest and attractive landscape features. Flowering prickly hedge plants bloom in shades of red, purple, white, orange, pink, and yellow. Thorny shrubs also act as natural windbreaks, noise barriers, and habitats for beneficial animals and insects.
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- Thorny Bougainvillea Bushes and Vines. Bougainvillea is a striking evergreen flowering vine that features long arching thorny branches available in a range of colors such as blue and purple.
- Crown of Thorn Plants (Euphorbia milii) Euphorbia milii, also known as the Crown of Thorns, is a medium-sized thorny shrub that produces round red or pink bract blooms and has bright green leaves.
- Thorny Firethorn Shrub (Pyracantha) Firethorn is a thorny shrub that bears berry-like fruit in late fall and has small oval-shaped green leaves with clusters of white blooms.
- Thorny Rose Shrub (Rosa rugosa) Thorny rose shrubs come in different cultivars, each having woody canes with sharp thorns. These spreading bushes thrive in various soils and produce beautiful pink flowers followed by large orange rose-hip berries.
Euphorbia milii (crown of thorns, Christ plant, Christ thorn) is a thorny, much-branched, semi-succulent shrub to ca. 1.5-1.8 m tall, branches covered with spines. It is semi-prostrate or somewhat climbing and quickly forms a low dense hedge that can be easily trimmed without harming the plant.
- Japanese Barberry. Japanese barberry is a deciduous shrub bristling with sharp thorns. It forms a classic hedge to discourage trespassing. The foliage turns red, orange, purple, or yellow in the fall.
- English Hawthorn. English hawthorn is a small, deciduous tree sometimes grown as a large shrub. It is known for its thorny branches and dense foliage. One of its virtues is that it grows in challenging environments, like poor soil and polluted air, demanding only that you give it good drainage.
- Candy Oh Rose. This deciduous bush blooms all summer and into fall without much maintenance. You can prune it if you wish to keep it more compact, although its small mature size means that many people skip the pruning.
- Rainbow Knockout Rose. This thorny rose bush has single flowers and no fragrance, but it is a repeat bloomer—and no deadheading is required. In size, it is similar to Candy Oh, so many growers don't bother to prune it.
Sep 22, 2023 · This article provides an identification guide to different types of buckthorn plants. Descriptions and pictures of various species of common buckthorn trees and shrubs will help you identify these plants and understand their characteristics and uses in landscaping.
Discover 17 plants with thorns. In Green Ecologist we show you many species of plants that have thorns, we show you their photos and we talk about the characteristics and care of some of them.
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