CUTTING OFF A ROSE BRANCH IN NEXT DOOR'S GARDEN

I expect they are just doing belt and bracers in case you were to say they damaged your rose bush at a later date
Cant you cut the offending branch off on your side of the fence by the boundary to save you going round with your tools

Will the branch not pull back through the fence if it's a new shoot?

Is it a sucker? Suckers need to come off anyway.

Really, they are being a bit precious, they could cut it off quite easily and, if they wanted to, hand it back to you!

People never cease to amaze me.

I believe she is allowed to cut it back to the boundary but should offer you the cuttings. If you don't want them she must get rid of them.

I was told this regarding cutting our hedge.

Yes exactly - what Bluebelle said ..

Honestly, these daft border disputes make me wish in an isolated cottsgr

Depending on the thickness of the branch, I would cut it from your side and pull it through. If it's your fence (which you say it is) then any damage will be to your own fence and up to you to leave or repair as you wish.

Honestly, how much effort would it take for your neighbours just to cut it off from their side if it offends them so much?!

Our neighbours are not gardeners either and tend to let it go a bit wild. Ivy which is growing in their garden regularly grows through our (new) fence but we just pull it through and cut it off or spray it with strong weedkiller and hope that it will kill the roots on their side!

They are perfectly happy for us to do this...and have started to cut it back a bit if it gets too thick, which is progress!

@Callistemon21

Hi, no, it is not a sucker, it is definitely a rose shoo , a new one, very soft. I peered over the fence and could see it. I tried to get it from my side but the rose hedging is very dense, it is about 40 years old so I could not get my cutter in without scratching my arms to bits.

I have told her to tell her husband he will have to lift the fence panel so I can do the job properly, because if I just cut the shoot off, it will grow back again so I am going to cut the whole branch off. It will cause him more work lifting up the panel than just getting a pair of scissors and cutting the shoot off. I am too old at 81 to be lifting up a 6 x 3 ft panel.

@ BlueBelle

I don't think they could do it any harm. I never prune my roses, I just go round with my sheers and lop them down to about a foot tall just before the frost sets in and they have blooms like saucers, I have never fed them or sprayed them in fact we planted them when we got married in the late 60's and they are absolutely beautiful.

I have one in my garden (which used to be my nans house) I have a photo of her pruning the same rise bush that was in the ‘ 70 s 😀

Honesty, I am thrilled to have no neighbors anywhere. Nobody to intrude on my solitude, except family and his workers.

Not nice neighbours, why didn’t they just cut the branch off, so petty. I have neighbouring trees with branches right across my property, I would love just one rose branch.

If you pull on it from her side then cut as far in as you can, you may be able to get quite long way into the hedge. Side shoots may grow from it next year, but they should go out sideways and not into her garden. Wear gardening gloves!! (Better still - get her or him to pull on it for you to cut, they will be able to use two hands, which you wouldn't as you will be cutting with one)

Iam64

Honestly, these daft border disputes make me wish in an isolated cottsgr

Yeah, makes me glad I only have a yard with a few pots in it.😄

I would tell the neighbour she is at liberty to cut the branches from her side and dispose of them. However I will not be doing work in her garden for free as I am not a charity. I can however ask my gardener to call and she can make her own arrangements for paying him.

But then I take no prisoners with neighbours.

Best not to make enemies of neighbours biglouis it has a way of coming back to bite you on the bum.
Also, you never know when you may need a favour from them.
How long does it take to go next door and cut off a rose branch?

Oreo

Best not to make enemies of neighbours biglouis it has a way of coming back to bite you on the bum.
Also, you never know when you may need a favour from them.
How long does it take to go next door and cut off a rose branch?

Seeing that RunaroundSue is 81 and they're in their 50s I think they're being just plain awkward.
I'd clip it off from my side if I could and push it through.

I think they’re being ridiculously petty.

I think I’d go round and cut the branch off as close to the fence as I could in a friendly manner and tell them to please go ahead next time and cut it (or any other) off if it reappears. No need to ask or tell me. With a smile.

I would tell them to feel free to cut off whatever is on their side of the fence. Don’t even consider doing this yourself it’s ridiculous going into their garden when they can do it themselves.
We went halves to pay for a new fence with neighbours and recently while pottering about the neighbour jumped up to look over the fence. He had the cheek to say so you haven’t stained the fence yet. He took me by surprise I said it’s a summer job and went back into the house. I should have said I don’t appreciate my privacy being invaded. But I intend to say it if he does that again I am getting to a stage in life where I can’t be doing with neighbours.

But we don’t know any back story perhaps they cut a branch at another house and got a problem Perhaps they are just very precise people who follow the law to the enth degree

If you don’t feel you are able enough to do it in your garden just say Sorry I can’t manage it but I give you full permission to cut the offending branch and I ll put it in writing if you so wish ….and that’s putting the ball totally in their court to do what they want with it

You should not have offered to go into her garden to do it, she could blame you for anything, Say arthritis is too bad but carry on doing your own.

Last night my neighbour asked me to go round this morning to cut the offending rose shoot off. I rang her this morning at 9 am and she met me and watched while I lifted up the fence a bit so I could cut off the actual rose stem where the shoot was growing from.

It is all done now. I told her that if another grows through, then she has my permission to cut off any offending rose shoots as they are very soft and not prickly at all. If my rose bushes can stand to be lopped down with hedge trimmers and shears then they can withstand being cut off with scissors or secateurs. I thought she would have loved to have beautiful roses peaking through her fence as she has nothing at all in her garden but a lawn and a small bush in the corner of the garden which is nearly dead. She could have picked them for her vase.

Hopefully, the matter is now closed for another year.

Well done RunaroundSue.
It’s was equally as likely to see a post on here ‘neighbour cutting my rose bush without my permission’
Such are the the vagaries of life.