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clarionite wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 3:35 pm

Mike S wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 2:31 pm What you're describing is "Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design" (CPTED). Here's a pretty good free reference, followed by a more succinct article summarizing key points:

https://www.chandlerpd.com/wp-content/u ... 2016-1.pdf

https://westseattleblog.com/2011/03/hos ... h-network/

Rose bushes would be specifically called "hostile vegetation". Others examples can be found here:

http://www.summit-university.org/the-po ... -your-home

My grandparents had Holly bushes planted in front of all the windows. Growing up I thought they were just ornamental, until I forgot my key and tried to get in one of the windows. I told my grandpa that I'd cut myself in several places getting in. He told me that was what the bushes were there for. To prevent people from coming in the windows.

I always remembered that, and planted Agave, Prickly pair and Cane Cholla Cactus outside of the bedroom windows of my house in Texas.