Anyone got any berberis in their hedges , ?

[andybk]

Anyone got berberis in their hedges , ? have a pack of them left over and have some gaps to fill , wondered how sheep proof they are

 

[Lincs Lass]

Everything proof ,,what poor woolly with half a degree of sense would stick its nose into that evil stuff

 

[Bury the Trash]

its a sort of nice hedging plant but trouble is its like thorn no matter how spikey the thorns if they can m,anage to carefully eat / pick at the leaves that will cramp the plants style big time , make it hollow in the bottom sort of thing.
so its not going to be very stock proof or even grow nicely then is it and just makes a bit of a lameness or orf etc potential problem causer.
there will be others but the plants here that ive found to be not browsed by sheep are Gorse ,Holly (unplatable becuase of spikey leaves ) and Rhododendron, ( they dont eat it which is good / they seem to know its poissneous/its very bitter ) ....... for reasons of them not eating the foliage to spoil the plant .

mind you we keep sheep pretty tight at times, and why we double side fence hedges.