There are a wide variety of plants available for natural fencing, ranging from evergreen, beautiful ornamental, indigenous to thorny for maximum perimeter security.
Browse our favorites and if you have some preferences you don’t see below, contact us today to arrange a bulk order of your preferred species.
Natal plum
Carissa macrocarpa
Indigenous with shiny, deep green leaves and snowy white flowers whose perfumed scent intensifies at night.
Spiny, evergreen shrub containing latex. They bloom for months at a time. The ornamental plump, round, crimson fruit appears in summer and autumn at the same time as the blooms
Bougainvillea
Nyctaginaceae
Exotic with thorny ornamental vines, bushes, and trees belonging to the four o’ clock family, Nyctaginaceae. It is native to eastern South America.
The inflorescence consists of large colourful sepal-like bracts which surround three simple waxy flowers, gaining popularity for the plant as an ornamental.
Wild Basil
Clinopodium vulgare
Hardy aromatic and great for pollinators, Wild basil is a perennial rhizomatous herb with square, upright, hairy stems and opposite pairs of leaves. The leaves are hairy, ovate and have short or no stalks, wedge-shaped bases and bluntly-toothed margins. into a tube. The flowers are pink, violet or purple and have two lips.
Hottentot-fig, sour fig, ice plant.
Carpobrotus edulis
An excellent evergreen, drought- and wind-resistant ground-creeping plant with succulent leaves in the genus Carpobrotus, native to South Africa.
Perfect for ground stabilisation and erosion prevention.
Lavender
Lavandula angustifolia
lavender is a genus of 47 known species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Old World and is found in Cape Verde and the Canary Islands, and from Europe across to northern and eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, southwest Asia to India.
Many members of the genus are cultivated extensively in temperate climates as ornamental plants for garden and landscape use, the most widely cultivated species, Lavandula angustifolia, is often referred to as lavender.
Krantz aloe or candelabra aloe.
Aloe arborescens
A flowering succulent perennial plant that belongs to the genus Aloe, which it shares with the well known and studied Aloe vera. Arborescens means “tree-like” and Aloe arborescens is valued by gardeners for its succulent green leaves, large vibrantly-colored flowers, winter blooming, and attraction for birds, bees, and butterflies.
Lobster bush, fly bush or mosquito bush.
plectranthus neochilus / Coleus neochilus
This is a hardy, versatile, aromatic herbaceous perennial ground cover with partially scalloped, ovate leaves and purple blue inflorescent spikes.
Great for pollinators and are believed to scare away snakes from human dwellings.
Yucca.
Asparagaceae Agavoideae.
A tall growing genus of perennial shrubs and trees. Its 40–50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers. They are native to the hot and dry parts of the Americas and the Caribbean.
Hibiscus.
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis
A genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae renowned for their large, showy flowers. The genus is quite large, comprising several hundred species that are native to warm temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world. Member species are The genus includes both annual and perennial herbaceous plants, as well as woody shrubs and small trees.
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