Our New Neighbour.......

Too bad Melinda isn't around at the moment........ no doubt she'd have some sage advice for you Bilbo!!
NUKE!!

 

I had this when new neighbours moved in at the back of my house, the previous ones had the dreaded leylandii (growing their side of the fence) which was at 6ft when we moved in, when they left it got to 20ft so i asked to lop it down a bit to let light in the garden they said yes by all means, trouble is they did not know when pruning these trees they dont grow back and took it in hand to have a go themsleves, and now the private screening has turned into a hatchet job with holes all along the top of the fence, no privacy at all now.

But maners dont cost a thing and you would have thought the would have mentioned something to you or spoke about with you Bilbo.

 

Try this one , buy a trampoline and put it by his reed fence and tell him when you are 20 feet in the air your new hobby and that the local school will also be pratising especialy on Saurday & Sunday plus invite hiim round to see your new barbeque right next to his fence

Peole like that should live in a top story flat they dont deserve to have a garden

Spruce

 

Then theres the new washing line that you are putting up with loads of old CDs suspended from it, just a bit higher than his reed fence.

Turn his house into a 1970s disco everytime the Sun shines

 

Ziggy dont forget the wind chimes , pigeon loft, dog kennel,

Plant a popular tree

We will all chip in £££ get a nice big one :yess:

Spruce

 

Nobody's mentioned the theft of the hedge clippings yet, only the trespass and damage to to your hedge. Make some diary notes and take some pics in case it does turn nasty.

 

I think it has to depend on the situation and circumstances. Up here in the north, a friendly face to face chat is usually the most appreciated strategy, but I hear tell that we're a different bunch up here.

I remember a few years ago when I was living in a rented house in Sheffield. We had a leylandii hedge on one side of the boundary. I hated it. Next door didn't care, but next door but one took exception to it.

One day I was surprised to find a letter to me, recorded delivery. I opened it up and it was a polite request from the bloke next door but one, asking if I could cut the leylandii to a respectable height, as it was blocking his light etc etc. All very reasonable.

This gave me a dilemma though. I agreed with him. Sure, I'd ask the landlord (again) to cut them (they were way to big for me to do it myself, they were easily 20ft high). But then what do I do to appease the neighbour in the meantime. I couldn't bring myself to write back to him when he lived just next door but one, but at the same time if he wanted a face to face surely he wouldn't have wrote to me. After all of 30 seconds deep thought, off I went to call for him. The poor bloke was visibly terrified when he saw who was at his door. I could see he'd done the old trick of keeping one foot wedged against the bottom of the door so that it would be hard for me to force it open if I was hostile. I quickly put him at ease by making a conscious effort to be visibly not hostile, and within minutes I'd set his mind at ease that I agreed with him and was regularly pestering the landlord to send someone round, and that I'd do it myself if I had the tools. A few weeks later, still waiting for the landlord, my dad came round and gave me a hand, and we just did it. Took the hedge down to a sensible 5ft.

 

It gets messy ... oooh so messy ;-)

 

To cut plants NOT in his garden without permission of the plants owners is criminal damage and the guy should be reported to the police. Also, if one of the trees was on council land then they should be told also.

 

Wish i had know this before looks like the has got away with it.....
Turns out he moved in 5 years ago not 4 as i thought:gaagh:and to top it all,i also forgot to mention that the Tarmac is RED.......

 

if you think that is bad, one of the neighbours at a garden I work at, was glyphosating the clematis of my client that grew over the fence into her property

 

Holy mackerel! I jest not, that is tantamount to an act of war.

 

Yep, that is criminal damage.