Sixteen logs, 14 foot long each. They vary from 9 to 14 inches thick;
the 9" thick ones (there are two) are wider at the opposite end and
taper a bit.

Now, two are hanging over a mini-ditch and a ditch ditch. Two planned,
12 to go . . . I figure that's 6 BN and 6 N fences. I'm going to try to
figure out how to set at least one pair so that it is a single fence for
BN height and a combo for the Novice side.

I wonder if I could plant some sort of hedge or greenery under the
thinnest log to make some sort of mini bullfinch fence. What kind of
greenery is unpalatable to horses but won't hurt them, and would fill in
under a log and a small amount out on both sides?

Not sure where I am going to put things. My track is limited a bit by
size and geography at my place, so I am not sure how much I would move
them around even if they were on skids.

AND I gave the first check to my neighbor builder guy for materials for
the bank and ditches. Woo hooo!!!!

Eileen Morgan
The Mare's Nest (PA)
http://www.themaresnest.com

Eileen Morgan wrote:

I wonder if I could plant some sort of hedge or greenery under the
thinnest log to make some sort of mini bullfinch fence. What kind of
greenery is unpalatable to horses but won't hurt them, and would fill
in under a log and a small amount out on both sides?

Patty Williamson wrote:
Eileen Morgan wrote:

I wonder if I could plant some sort of hedge or greenery under the
thinnest log to make some sort of mini bullfinch fence. What kind of
greenery is unpalatable to horses but won't hurt them, and would fill in
under a log and a small amount out on both sides?


About the greenery, though...here in mid Mo, we have alot of native cedar
trees, and we use the cedar branches for brush boxes. But it turns brown
pretty quickly. Don't know what to plant that would stay short enough...
Patty W.

Patty Williamson wrote:
Eileen Morgan wrote:

I wonder if I could plant some sort of hedge or greenery under the
thinnest log to make some sort of mini bullfinch fence. What kind of
greenery is unpalatable to horses but won't hurt them, and would fill
in under a log and a small amount out on both sides?


About the greenery, though...here in mid Mo, we have alot of native
cedar trees, and we use the cedar branches for brush boxes. But it turns
brown pretty quickly. Don't know what to plant that would stay short
enough...

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Patty Williamson wrote:
Eileen Morgan wrote:

I wonder if I could plant some sort of hedge or greenery under the
thinnest log to make some sort of mini bullfinch fence. What kind of
greenery is unpalatable to horses but won't hurt them, and would fill in
under a log and a small amount out on both sides?

About the greenery, though...here in mid Mo, we have alot of native cedar
trees, and we use the cedar branches for brush boxes. But it turns brown
pretty quickly. Don't know what to plant that would stay short enough...
Patty W.

How about some of the newer, smaller roses?

Emily Brooks wrote:
How about some of the newer, smaller roses?

Are they amazingly hardy?? Will they sort of be a bush that will tat my
skin to bits if I get pitched into it by a naughty horse?? =8-0

Eileen Morgan
The Mare's Nest
http://www.themaresnest.com

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Emily Brooks wrote:
How about some of the newer, smaller roses?
Are they amazingly hardy?? Will they sort of be a bush that will tat my
skin to bits if I get pitched into it by a naughty horse?? =8-0

Eileen Morgan
The Mare's Nest
http://www.themaresnest.com

The newer ones are amazingly hardy but I don't know how thorny. As far as
surviving browsers, thorny might be good. OTOH, getting pitched naughtily
into them might not be good for either party :-)

Emily

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Patty Williamson wrote:
Eileen Morgan wrote:

I wonder if I could plant some sort of hedge or greenery under the
thinnest log to make some sort of mini bullfinch fence. What kind of
greenery is unpalatable to horses but won't hurt them, and would fill
in under a log and a small amount out on both sides?


About the greenery, though...here in mid Mo, we have alot of native cedar
trees, and we use the cedar branches for brush boxes. But it turns brown
pretty quickly. Don't know what to plant that would stay short enough...
Patty W.

How about some of the newer, smaller roses?

Emily
My horses keep all the roses near their paddock well trimmed. Apparently

My horses keep all the roses near their paddock well trimmed. Apparently
roses are delicious. If you only need the greenery to be maybe a foot high
then creeping juniper might work.

I'm going to try to figure out how to set at least one pair so that it is a single fence for
BN height and a combo for the Novice side.

What kind of greenery is unpalatable to horses but won't hurt them, and would fill in
under a log and a small amount out on both sides?

On Jul 20, 7:34 pm, Eileen Morgan <eg... at (no spam) ptd.net> wrote:
(snips)
I'm going to try to figure out how to set at least one pair so that it is a single fence for
BN height and a combo for the Novice side.

What kind of greenery is unpalatable to horses but won't hurt them, and would fill in
under a log and a small amount out on both sides?


Lucky you! Sounds like you're really going to have nice schooling when
you get it all done. The easiest way I've seen to build a BN/N combo
is to set two fences parallel but staggered, i.e., the right side of
the first fence is just the BN jump; the left side jumps into the
combo and out over the right side of the N jump, then the left side of
the N jump is a single. With 14' they'll be a bit narrow but not as
bad as many XC skinnies, and you have three different jumping options
in limited space.

For filler I've always liked . . . Will you post photos somewhere as
things progress?