# You must give us--A SHRUBBERY! The World's longest shrubbery. History, not Monty Python. With link **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 9, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-give-us-a-shrubbery-the-worlds-longest-shrubbery-history-not-monty-python-with-link/1014092 "2025-02-09T18:41:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-give-us-a-shrubbery-the-worlds-longest-shrubbery-history-not-monty-python-with-link/1014092/1 "2025-02-09T18:41:15Z")
In British-controlled India, they had a problem with smugglers. In a manner typical of English gardeners, they solved it with a Shrubbery. A 3,701km Shrubbery. With spines. And Thorns. And nasty, sharp, sticky-things! > **[The mysterious disappearance of the world's longest shrubbery](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210824-how-the-worlds-longest-shrubbery-vanished-without-trace)** > > The natural living barrier was described as "utterly impassable to man or beast", and snaked across India from the Indus River to the Mahanadi. But why doesn't anyone remember it? Oddly, the Spanish Inquisition was not involved. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-give-us-a-shrubbery-the-worlds-longest-shrubbery-history-not-monty-python-with-link/1014092/2 "2025-02-09T18:43:09Z")
Ni! Peng! Niwom!!! ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-give-us-a-shrubbery-the-worlds-longest-shrubbery-history-not-monty-python-with-link/1014092/3 "2025-02-09T18:51:52Z")
Was there a brick-lined tunnel going under it so they could reach the Old Forest? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-give-us-a-shrubbery-the-worlds-longest-shrubbery-history-not-monty-python-with-link/1014092/4 "2025-02-09T19:41:36Z")
What an eccentric performance. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-give-us-a-shrubbery-the-worlds-longest-shrubbery-history-not-monty-python-with-link/1014092/5 "2025-02-11T15:05:06Z")
I wonder if satellite imagery would be able to show the path of the hedge? Or ground-penetrating radar? Fascinating topic. Thanks for posting, Bosda! 😊 ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-give-us-a-shrubbery-the-worlds-longest-shrubbery-history-not-monty-python-with-link/1014092/6 "2025-02-11T15:06:20Z")
We need a bi-level effect with a path. A path! A path! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-give-us-a-shrubbery-the-worlds-longest-shrubbery-history-not-monty-python-with-link/1014092/7 "2025-02-11T15:30:24Z")
In a previous home we lived on a street corner, and neighborhood brats (and some adults) found it convenient to cut across our yard to save a few steps. So we erected the Great Hedge of Jackmanii, composed of very prickly and decorative Rosa rugosa. A vengeful and possibly impaled trespasser attacked part of the Great Hedge with an herbicide, but R. rugosa bounced back. We don’t have to worry about corner-cutters anymore, but the idea of an impenetrable hedge still has allure. I’ll be planting some of [these](https://www.treepeony.com/products/flying-dragon-tree) come spring.