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The idiot neighbours I've had for 2 years hadn't cut the lawn/weed patch until yesterday.
In 2 years, not one weed was removed on their side in-between our houses. There was 4' tall dandelions, 5' tall spikey weeds, etc.
My side has a garden, (weeded twice a week) watered daily. Containing 5 hostas that were just starting to flower, marigolds, etc, etc. Lookied similar to pic of front.
F'n tool next door mowed it all down, it's all gone. Not even a trace of a flower, hostas mowed to ground level.

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Gary said:
The idiot neighbours I've had for 2 years hadn't cut the lawn/weed patch until yesterday.
In 2 years, not one weed was removed on their side in-between our houses. There was 4' tall dandelions, 5' tall spikey weeds, etc.
My side has a garden, (weeded twice a week) watered daily. Containing 5 hostas that were just starting to flower, marigolds, etc, etc. Lookied similar to pic of front.
F'n tool next door mowed it all down, it's all gone. Not even a trace of a flower, hostas mowed to ground level.

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A similar thing happened to me. I had a beautiful cedar hedge, 40 years old, 120' long, 12'high, and about 5' girth. 1/2 the foliage is on my side, 1/2 on theirs.

One of their kids acquired a hedge trimmer and skinned the 2-1/2' of growth on their side shown to the wood. Didn't kill the cedars, but everything from the ground to about 6' died, and a lot of the hedge is now dying off.

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Gary said:
The idiot neighbours I've had for 2 years hadn't cut the lawn/weed patch until yesterday.
In 2 years, not one weed was removed on their side in-between our houses. There was 4' tall dandelions, 5' tall spikey weeds, etc.
My side has a garden, (weeded twice a week) watered daily. Containing 5 hostas that were just starting to flower, marigolds, etc, etc. Lookied similar to pic of front.
F'n tool next door mowed it all down, it's all gone. Not even a trace of a flower, hostas mowed to ground level.

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Mad dogs and bad neighbours need to be fenced. Everyone loses.

Write ASS on his front lawn with fertilizer. The grass will grow higher there for a while.
 
nobbie48 said:
Mad dogs and bad neighbours need to be fenced. Everyone loses.

Write ASS on his front lawn with fertilizer. The grass will grow higher there for a while.
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I was thinking about spraying that on their lawn using grub killer -- the message would be better in green.
 
Mad Mike said:
A similar thing happened to me. I had a beautiful cedar hedge, 40 years old, 120' long, 12'high, and about 5' girth. 1/2 the foliage is on my side, 1/2 on theirs.

One of their kids acquired a hedge trimmer and skinned the 2-1/2' of growth on their side shown to the wood. Didn't kill the cedars, but everything from the ground to about 6' died, and a lot of the hedge is now dying off.

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Fortunately my neighbour on the other side of the hedge and I are 100% in agreement with our hedge. Technically it's mine but we share trimming costs and even though it's overgrown its width, it stays.

I do want to add a few cedars at one end but everything gets discussed. Commercially planted hedges aren't cheap. Privacy height can be $1000 a tree or more.

Cedars have no foliage a foot in. When they get too high and they are topped a couple of feet it takes years for them to green up again.

If they are too wide you don't use a hedge trimmer. You snip pockets to let light in and new branches will sprout deeper in. However it takes time. You can't undo years of unchecked growth in an afternoon of hedge trimmer massacre.

Did anyone on the other side even show remorse?
 
nobbie48 said:
Fortunately my neighbour on the other side of the hedge and I are 100% in agreement with our hedge. Technically it's mine but we share trimming costs and even though it's overgrown its width, it stays.

I do want to add a few cedars at one end but everything gets discussed. Commercially planted hedges aren't cheap. Privacy height can be $1000 a tree or more.

Cedars have no foliage a foot in. When they get too high and they are topped a couple of feet it takes years for them to green up again.

If they are too wide you don't use a hedge trimmer. You snip pockets to let light in and new branches will sprout deeper in. However it takes time. You can't undo years of unchecked growth in an afternoon of hedge trimmer massacre.

Did anyone on the other side even show remorse?
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Good to know. My house came with some cedars that were planted in less than ideal locations. One I intentionally removed as the trunk was 8" from a walkway I needed open. Finding a chain link fence around the root ball to make it easier for landscapers to install was annoying. That meant the entire thing had to come out at once and I didn't have a bobcat. Others I trimmed back substantially but left a layer of green. I'll try your route of branch removal and see if that can beat them back further. They all got two feet cut off the top to eliminate a potential raccoon ladder.
 
I don't know if air rooting works on cedars.

An aunt had a house plant that wanted to be a tree and eventually became a stick in a pot with a pile of leaves near the ceiling. My uncle who worked at an experimental farm would peel the bark away just below the leaves and make a plastic funnel to contain peat moss. It was watered regularly and when roots started showing through the peat moss he would cut the stem below the root ball and replant it. Then put the tools away for another five years.
 
nobbie48 said:
I don't know if air rooting works on cedars.

An aunt had a house plant that wanted to be a tree and eventually became a stick in a pot with a pile of leaves near the ceiling. My uncle who worked at an experimental farm would peel the bark away just below the leaves and make a plastic funnel to contain peat moss. It was watered regularly and when roots started showing through the peat moss he would cut the stem below the root ball and replant it. Then put the tools away for another five years.
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I'm not doing that. I don't care that much about these things. Hell, I don't really care if they are there at all. If I get too annoyed they will all leave and get replaced by flowers or plants.
 
nobbie48 said:
....If they are too wide you don't use a hedge trimmer. You snip pockets to let light in and new branches will sprout deeper in. However it takes time. You can't undo years of unchecked growth in an afternoon of hedge trimmer massacre.

Did anyone on the other side even show remorse?
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The lady next door is lovely -- but she's in her 90s. Her 60 year old son did the butchering, he's not there often so I'm not sure he knows, I'm pretty sure he doesn't care.

I'm replacing 70' with a fence, the remaining hedge will get replaced with 7 footers. Shoudl be restored in a few years.
 
Mad Mike said:
The lady next door is lovely -- but she's in her 90s. Her 60 year old son did the butchering, he's not there often so I'm not sure he knows, I'm pretty sure he doesn't care.

I'm replacing 70' with a fence, the remaining hedge will get replaced with 7 footers. Shoudl be restored in a few years.
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Thankfully not my neighbours but nearby some old people have a row of trees. They cleared off most of the branches on their own side as they planted them too close to the house. Their neighbour cleaned off a bunch of branches over the line as they were dropping tons of crap (literally during spongy moth chaos a couple years ago). Tree owners freaked out about killing their trees as they needed all the foliage over the line to survive. That's just too bad. Make better choices about what/where to plant trees.
 
Gary said:
The idiot neighbours I've had for 2 years hadn't cut the lawn/weed patch until yesterday.
In 2 years, not one weed was removed on their side in-between our houses. There was 4' tall dandelions, 5' tall spikey weeds, etc.
My side has a garden, (weeded twice a week) watered daily. Containing 5 hostas that were just starting to flower, marigolds, etc, etc. Lookied similar to pic of front.
F'n tool next door mowed it all down, it's all gone. Not even a trace of a flower, hostas mowed to ground level.

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Some pieces of rebar in the hostas sticking up 6" should put a end to that nonsense

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GreyGhost said:
Thankfully not my neighbours but nearby some old people have a row of trees. They cleared off most of the branches on their own side as they planted them too close to the house. Their neighbour cleaned off a bunch of branches over the line as they were dropping tons of crap (literally during spongy moth chaos a couple years ago). Tree owners freaked out about killing their trees as they needed all the foliage over the line to survive. That's just too bad. Make better choices about what/where to plant trees.
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You can cut a neighbor's tree overhanging your yard, but most urban areas have tree protection bylaws that prevent killing or injuring a mature tree. Most trees are OK with a prune of 1/3rd their canopy - so as a neighbor, you can take 1/3rd of what's hanging over your yard before you get into risky territory.

In my case with my damaged hedge, I could seek damages from the neighbor and likely win. The town arborist checked the trees and concluded they were severely damaged by the aggressive pruning. But am I really going to drag a 90-year-old woman over the coals for $3000 hedge he son butchered? Nope.

Fun fact: The leaves and branches that fall off a neighbour's tree onto your yard are yours, the flowers, fruit, seeds are not - they belong to the tree owner whether on the tree or on the ground.
 
GreyGhost said:
Thankfully not my neighbours but nearby some old people have a row of trees. They cleared off most of the branches on their own side as they planted them too close to the house. Their neighbour cleaned off a bunch of branches over the line as they were dropping tons of crap (literally during spongy moth chaos a couple years ago). Tree owners freaked out about killing their trees as they needed all the foliage over the line to survive. That's just too bad. Make better choices about what/where to plant trees.
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We just had this with a load of massive conifers on the property boundary (on neighbours side). I complained that unless they were trimmed I’m continually losing sunlight in my yard. Neighbour moaned and said she needed privacy so I asked her if 15ft wasn’t enough as the conifers were over 20. Anyway, they‘ve just been trimmed and I asked the tree company to strip everything up from the property line that’s on our side. Now I just need her to understand that her hot tub humming away for 2h a day isn’t really acceptable if it’s chasing neighbours indoors.
 
jc100 said:
We just had this with a load of massive conifers on the property boundary (on neighbours side). I complained that unless they were trimmed I’m continually losing sunlight in my yard. Neighbour moaned and said she needed privacy so I asked her if 15ft wasn’t enough as the conifers were over 20. Anyway, they‘ve just been trimmed and I asked the tree company to strip everything up from the property line that’s on our side. Now I just need her to understand that her hot tub humming away for 2h a day isn’t really acceptable if it’s chasing neighbours indoors.
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Lucky you're not one of my neighbours! I allocate them a few hours of sunshine a day.

My neighbours want more sunlight, I ignore their pleas. I can’t help my feelings, I like my wall of trees, I wonder why my neighbours can't be happy in their shade?
 
So what happens if a neighbour trims the tree, or bush on their side, but also some on your side.

My idoit neighbour did something like this. I have this big bushy "tree". I just noticed the other day 1 of the stocks near the fence was chopped down. It goes straight up near the fence, and it was chopped down on my side. So imgaine the stock/bush trunk running up near the fence going straight up was chopped where it meets the height of the fence.
 
sburns said:
So what happens if a neighbour trims the tree, or bush on their side, but also some on your side.

My idoit neighbour did something like this. I have this big bushy "tree". I just noticed the other day 1 of the stocks near the fence was chopped down. It goes straight up near the fence, and it was chopped down on my side. So imgaine the stock/bush trunk running up near the fence going straight up was chopped where it meets the height of the fence.
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That's the grey area where legally they shouldn't be touching things on your side of the fence but from a neighbour relations perspective, throwing them under the bus for it will likely cause more tension and future issues. I'd have a chat about property lines and consent. Hell, I may be ok with chopping that branch off, just talk to me first and then I can cut it off at the base instead of a weird nub sticking out.
 
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