A quality home security system from a trusted local Long Island alarm company is your key to peace of mind and home security on Long Island. A few simple landscape changes can be the perfect crime-fighting partner to your home security strategy. The right landscaping can remove potential hiding places for intruders by increasing visibility from the street. Strategic plantings can also turn away intruders by presenting a threatening deterrent against entry into your home. Consider the following guidelines from Joel M. Lerner at the Washington Post:
Remove potential hiding places for intruders.
- Ensure shrubs and hedges are no taller than 3 feet. Taller growth creates natural hiding places for trespassers.
- Prune vines and ivy away from windows and doorways. Such coverings may convince a potential intruder that his or her entry into your home will be undetectable.
- Remove low-hanging tree limbs. Limbs should hang no lower than 8-feet from the ground. Low hanging trees may provide a safe canopy for a burglar.
- If privacy is not of concern, choose fencing with a see-through design, such as chain-link, picket fence, or lattice. Attractive options, such as colored chain-link, or wrought iron picket fencing, are available and will decrease your property’s susceptibility to a home invasion.
Create threatening deterrents against a home invasion.
- Plant thorny bushes around points of entry. Crimson Pygmy Barberry and Dwarf Chinese Holly are both attractive options, and thorny stems make them formidable opponents to an intruder.
These basic landscaping changes can serve as an initial line of defense against a home invasion; however some or all are not always possible. Privacy concerns may make see-through fencing undesirable for homeowners. Thorny bushes may pose a safety hazard where young children play. An All Island Security alarm system provides your strongest defense against intruders.
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