CUTTING OFF A ROSE BRANCH IN NEXT DOOR'S GARDEN

I'm just amazed at a 50 year old who can stand back and watch an 81 year old lift a fence and cut off a piece of shrub which grew through to her side!

Where I used to live. Some branches of my tree over hung next door . He cut them off which was ok but he threw them back into my garden instead of putting them into his green bin. I had hell of a game cutting them up to put in my green bin. When some of his plants grew through the fence I put weed killer on them because he wouldn't cut them back or let me cut them . But he never said a word about me killing his plant. We had been neighbours for over 20 years when my husband died . He did not say sorry to hear he had died . My husband lent him tools and even helped him put up the fence as it was his. So when his dad died I made a point of going round with a card. No one in the road like him or his wife. But everyone else in the road sent condolence cards to me even our new neighbours.

When I moved here I didn't know what the neighbours would be like but I have never had such kind neighbours intact the whole road. And on my travels not found anyone who wasn't nice. I live in the north west.

Glad you resolved your problem with neighbours in a amicable way OP, always best if you can.

If you cut a neighbours branches Whiff you are obliged to throw them or give them in some way, back into their garden as it’s their property.

No Oreo - you are obliged to offer them back.

It is illegal to hust throw them over.

Really?
Mum’s neighbour cuts things off and throws them onto her lawn, tho she doesn’t mind, just stuffs them in the garden bin.
So many disputes with neighbours begin and end with fences and overgrown plants and trees.

I recently had a fence replaced between our garden and next door. There was a Virginia creeper growing right along their side and poking through the original fence in several places and forcing the panels apart. It originated on their side. I asked if, having removed the old fence, they had any objections if I cut it down to the ground and, if possible, removed it. They had no objections at all. If that had been the neighbour in our last house she would have objected out of spite. It is why we moved. The difference in folks, eh?

I'm just amazed at a 50 year old who can stand back and watch an 81 year old lift a fence and cut off a piece of shrub which grew through to her side

Pretty cheeky. I dont do my own garden. Thats what gardeners are for.

My neighbour once asked me to send my gardener around to give them a quote, which I did. They only wanted to pay about 50% of the going rate. Being a native scouser he had some dusty things to say about their meanness. But thats another story.

When he was digging the foundations for a new patio the nosy NDN put her ugly snoot over the fence and asked what he was doing. He told her "Digging a grave for nosy neighbours. We put them under the patio where I come from."

Typical Liverpudlian humour. We take no prisoners.

How ridiculous, they should have cut it themselves! In their 50s - they should be ashamed!

When I saw the title of this post (in capitals) I thought it was another of the spam posts about death spells! Maybe cutting off a rose branch was a kind of voodoo to harm the neighbour!

Whiff the neighbours behind our house did this with some enormous Sycamore branches. They would have taken some effort to throw them over too.

It has totally messed up our young plants and seedlings in two big deep beds.
Even more annoyingly, it isn't even our tree - it's next-doors!
We have spent hours chopping and moving and reseeding etc.

For anyone interested here is a link to info re trees and the law:

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/types/trees/the-law

Strategic bump for t***l avoidance.