Neighbour's HUGE Tree!

Birdy12

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Obviously, Birdy, you must be a ground nester. Your tree nesting cousins must hate you.

Believe it or not, I do like animals. I like trees.

But I also like a sunny garden.:)

Birdy.

Edit: Oh, how dim am I? I've just got it . I blame the early hour...

mustang121

When my parents has a row of conifers along the border of the front garden that was next to the pavement. They had to ensure that the conifers were always trimmed back to allow people to walk on the pavement.

I like those conifers, they brough lots of nesting birds to the garden....and evil cats that sat at the bottom of the tree.

oldskoo1

Just cut what is overhanding in your garden.

I remember at our old house, the neighbour behind us did this to his next door garden trees. He was very interested in getting as much sun coverage as possible. He even cut down a massive conifer that took away our coverage so we could see into his garden.

Obviously i dont know if he fell out with his next door neighbour but thats what he did.

Perhaps easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

flora48

OP,this tree is bugging you now and it will continue to do so. Why should you move in and start pestering the neighbour to alter his garden. Walk away and find a house and garden that you really like.

LE3

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

DH and I love trees - and fortunately we have many in our new garden so were happy to sacrifice that one - but it seems very few people share that love

I love trees too, and if I had a garden the size of the one I grew up with, I would have loads of trees. Unfortunately I live in a fairly modern house on a fairly modern estate and my garden is small. It simply cannot support a tree

note_2

our neighbour has a *massive* (very ugly) tree which they will not take down. if she decides to sell the house (she tried a while back but no buyers) any buyers will knock money off to deal with it - their garden is completely in shade and doesnt have grass.

it overhangs quite badly into our garden and leaves a large part of it in complete shade - you would have thought it courteous to offer to trim back to the boundary - we would offer to do so if our was overhanging - but no.

in fact before we moved in there was a dispute with a neighbour - the people who occupied before us planted several trees (since taken down by us) to block the sunlight of a neighbouring property to spite them them......some people can be pricks!

blossomhill_2

Ask the current owners of your proposed house if they have ever had any discussions (dispute or otherwise) about the tree ~ they could already have fallen out with the neighbour over it

loracan1

Not really anything to add to your predicament but my next door neighbour had a laburnum tree planted in their postage stamp size front garden (terraced house). Became apparent over the years that it was a little(!) bit too big...

Hence opening my front door one morning to be confronted by nothing but tree. And having to crawl underneath it to get out. (she was mortified)

geoffky

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Native trees are fine but when you go planting eucalyptus trees just be aware of the size they can grow to

That was the one request from our neighbours at the back of us, that we did not chop the eucalyptus tree down...It is very tall but the oak tree at the side of me dwarfs it..I am sat here in my lounge and can count 30 massive trees and that is after i have cut 25 trees down for some sunlight....Some people have commented that they did not know the house existed..