CUTTING OFF A ROSE BRANCH IN NEXT DOOR'S GARDEN

Strategic bump for t***l avoidance.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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?

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.

No Oreo - you are obliged to offer them back.

It is illegal to hust throw them over.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.😄

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)

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.