Cyclists parking bikes on my lawn

I don`t know the name of the plant, but whilst walking along a path through some gardens in Turkey, my husband accidentally brushed against a plant near the path, and he started to bleed, it took several hours to stop bleeding. Sounds like an ideal plant to deter future visits.

What about warning sign re plants that might cause allergic reaction?? A little bit of itching powder??? If the warning sign is there......

There definitely needs to be a psychological barrier. I'd recommend holly as it's prickly and no one will stuff any rubbish in that or attempt to lean on it etc. Do keep it below 4ft for security. Otherwise, have you seen the type of wooden posts farms have with the wire? Subtle, wonderfully rustic yet stylish and no one could get their bike through. Or, trellis is good too. It can't hold weight of a person, for example. Can you trll I used to do home security assessments, haha!!

Thank you so much to everyone who replied. I’m costing chain link fencing as we speak. Also, since they were wearing club jerseys, I’ve emailed their cycling club which I found online. I know no one was physically hurt and no actual damage was done but it was 6 men being unpleasant to one little me. They wouldn’t like their mothers to be treated that way. Their behaviour was not ok so I’ve made formal complaint. I’ll let everyone know if I get a result.

We had a problem years ago when we had an open plan front garden and covenants that said we could not put up a fence or hedge.

I planted a spaced row of roses, each in its square of dug land with a bit if grass in between so it wasn't a hedge. I let them grow large and made sure they were thorny.

It worked.

I wish I’d had GN to advise when I had a similar problem. My ground-floor flat had a low wall vert close to the front window on which groups of people would sit and chat, play music etc. despite the ‘please do not sit on the wall’ sign in the window.
The only thing that stopped them was vaseline on the wall which brought callers saying,
“Did you know your wall is all greasy. It’s ruined my jeans.”
Pots of prickly plants would have been more entertaining.

Elegran wrote:

"That would just encourage the dogwalkers to drop more bags of doggy-do, and the bike and car parkers to believe that it is just waste ground and not someone's front garden. Not helpful."

True. So here is an opportunity to set up a little wayside cafe make nice cycling and doggy friends.

But yes I agree it may attract more dog poo sadly. Fence and prickly bushes then

In Scotland it is a right to roam, but not a general freedom to do what you want:

public access rights do not apply to the following places:

Houses, gardens and non-residential buildings and associated land
Land in which crops are growing
Land next to a school and used by the school
Sports or playing fields (where exercising access rights would interfere with their use)
Airfields, railways, quarries, construction sites and military bases
Visitor attractions or other places which charge for entry

And this is people not cars

Agree with all - delineate the boundary within the limits of what you are allowed small fence is good, any prickly bushes are great (burst tyres ?) or nettles ! Wildflower meadow with lots of nettles. Best for butterflies. Love the most idea too - with sharpened spike on one side.

I keep reading that anyone can park on your driveway and you cannot stop them . In Scotland there is no law of tresspass.

Arrange largish stones to mark the boundary, put some pots of geraniums just inside the stones, and add a notice "Private garden. No parking. Parked cars will be photographed and their numbers reported for clamping and/or removal. Parked bicycles will be impounded, storage fee £50 per day or part thereof." This is legal (but check locally) www.reddit.com/r/bicycling/comments/ctoh0/if_i_lock_my_bike_up_on_private_property_can_the/

That would just encourage the dogwalkers to drop more bags of doggy-do, and the bike and car parkers to believe that it is just waste ground and not someone's front garden. Not helpful.

Stop cutting the grass , let the wild dandelions, daisies, clover and so on grow for the pollinating insects. Place one or two plastic dog droppings around the edges

What a fantastic opportunity )

Pedal cycle parking £10 per day.
Or part thereof.

To be paid in advance.

Non pre-paid for pedal cycles with be removed to a pound.
Release Fee £50.

All donations will go to a local Charity.

Thanks )

We used to have that problem. I would turn on the sprinkler. Got quite a few cars with windows down. I especially loved the occasional convertible targets.

Granof412

But what is a millennium greenway???

Looks as if it is a multiuser walkway etc around Chester walks.walkingworld.com/walk/Chester--Along-The-Millennium-Greenway-From-Newton.aspx. We have the Millenium Coastal Path local to me in Carmarthenshire which is a path for walkers and cyclists along the coast.

what's the point of having a front garden that is not fenced.
it's neither one thing nor the other.
too publicly available to be private;
not private enough to deter invaders.
it probably does not even occur to them that it's not public.
motion-sensor activated sprinkler worth a try.

A small fence, or chain link, if that fails a lawn sprinkler on timer for 5 mins on and 5 mins off. X

themosquito.co.uk/ Apparently this can deter loitering teenagers. Not sure of legalities etc, but perhaps it is a possibility? So sorry your privacy is being invaded in this way. Many people just do not care.

I should just turn the hosepipe on them.

Apologies, still getting the hang of this. The previous comment was in reply to Whitewavemark2's suggestion of the sprinkler

Love that idea!

Next door have workmen in and on the first morning I noticed they were using my front grass to park their tools on. Had to go out and ask them not to, and they were swiftly removed.

Some nice prickly shrubs should act as a deterrent.
This theme reminds me of a complaint we received about one of our paperboys. They are instructed to stay off lawns. The resident actually brought in a photograph of bike wheel tracks in the dew on his lawn, as evidence.
Another customer phoned us, asking us to tell the paperboy not to lean his bike on their new brick wall, in case he scratched it!
Your complaints are completely justified, GM, but some peoples’ are unbelievably petty.