whats wrong with a nice front garden?

Strapped

PS I don't know whether you realise, that people can click through to the rest of your album and nosy people like me will do so so you may prefer to set up an "MSE-only" account or at least a separate album. Esp if you are an eBay seller which I suspect you may be...:D

brogusblue

I have nothing to hide .. ..lol

I don't mind people looking at my photo's .. Its my way of remembering whats happening .. brain like a sieve .. :eek:

aliasojo

Strapped wrote: »

I wonder what it is about your garden that the neighbours don't like. Perhaps the pergola as it's quite large - does it block light into the neighbours windows? Just a thought.

Tbh that was my first thought too. I did think that maybe the neighbours felt it was too much for a frontage, but even if that was the case...tough, they still have no right doing what they did.

I used to have a job that involved me travelling to people in various local towns and so I saw numerous gardens over time. One was very similar to the OP's and I know the neighbours felt it was too much for such a small space. They didn't do anything to the gardener in question thankfully (at least that I know of anyway!) , but they did biatch behind closed doors.

They'd complain more if the OP left the garden to rot and ruin.

brogusblue

The gate, arch and pergola only went up last week.. as my orginal arch broke last sept in a very stormy day.. The height of the arch at its highest is 2.4m the upstairs neighbours are fine with it..

all the plants i brought 99% came off ebay as bulbs or plug plants for a £1 or £2 except the roses they came from a rose grower bare root .. some come off freecycle .. the dearest spent to date is the arch and pergola for just under the £100 mark.. all the lillies are from that was nursery closing down i brought a bag of 250 bulbs for nothing ..

lostinrates

To answer the OP I can't imagine what could be wrong with a nice frot garden and yours is lovely. I love the pergola, one would think if anything it gives neighbours privacy fro guests approaching your door.

How did you know about the round up? Was the packaging left there? I would have thought notes and packaging etc have evidence on them...I would not touch them in the future and make a big noise. Local paper idea is perfect....get all the nice neighbours on your side.

As a rose lover too, the only thing I can think people would have against a rose hedge is being prickled. I've damaged clothes etc on roses in my own garden and make sure now to plant them well back from paths etc. Pavement side I can imagine some taking umbrage. OTOH, I'd like them for the security of prickle, but make sure they NEVER grew out beyond the boundary but rather stayed at least a couple of inches my side of it if they front a pavement.

brogusblue

The bottle was left in my garden .. I didn't think i threw the bottle away, it wasn't untill about 2 weeks later i noticed that my rosa rugosa hedge started to die all of a sudden .. i was confused what was goimg wrong.. so i left it and it just got worse so i took a sample to my local rose grower who said its weedkiller .. .. so i ended up digging out the hedge and over 2ft deep trench almost 35ft long and 2ft wide and then replace the soil with new and dispose of the other soil

Yes the hedge was abit messy and over hanging but i did warn my neighbours that it takes about 3 years to make a hedge .. i did tie all the over hanging bits back but it wasn't that bad..

here's some pics of the hedge in 2009

cootambear

some people are sick in the head

ceebeeby

Personal opinion only - but looks over the top to me when you take into consideration the patch of grass that is both your neighbours gardens. Don't take this as an insult though because I'm not particularly into gardens (probably because I'm too lazy to care for the rather large one I own!) and is just a view.

Just thinking aloud more than anything, but it looks quite attention grabbing - and that's what you've got - albeit the unwelcome variety.

Notwithstanding, damaging someone elses' hard-work is not cool, so totally supportive of any action to get them to stop it!

mrbadexample

raphanius wrote: »

the woman on the other side just seems to hate anything living, she has a shingle garden and has even pulled out our lovely plants claiming them to be weeds and shes helping us keep our garden tidy :mad: i lost all my daffodil bulbs that way

Haven't you got a fence to keep her out?

But if that happened to me I'd be growing a titan arum.

Davesnave

It looks to me as if the rosa rugosa was planted very close to the edge of a pavement others had to use to reach their properties. The pavement is one slab wide, so 3' at most.

Rosa rugosa is not what I'd call a child-friendly, or even person-friendly plant. It is used in security contexts. It's just about the most unfriendly thing you could plant next to a narrow public walkway. Whether OP realises or not, it gives out sub-conscious messages of the wrong kind.

None of the above in any way excuses the behavior of those who have damaged OP's property, but it may go some way to explaining why they did. We also cannot know what else has gone on at a personal level, so I'm restricting my comments to this alone.