Neighbour butchered our tree

xxmrksxx

Thats fine we thought there was not much we could do, however the curtisy to speak to us beforehand would of been polite.

Oh and to the poster asking why we cut alot back ia because we wanted to what we had and are going to atart again with the garden but keep one or two trees.

Retro_Bunny

Best not to fall out with the neighbours anyway.

Trees are replaceable (ish), neighbours you are stuck with.

And sorry to offer an opinion, but I'd take the tree down anyway for the reasons stated above. And can vouch for bamboo - we've got it. It grows flipping quickly, and requires a good cull every year, but it's lovely and bright, nicer than dark conifers.

Mojisola

xxmrksxx wrote: »

The plan was to trim them down by about five feet and right back, however to keep them as they offer a little privacy and make garden look nice.

That conifer wouldn't have regrown if you'd cut it down to and trimmed it back. You'd have been left with a brown trunk to look at. Take the whole thing out and plant some new screening there.

Ash_McCloud

xxmrksxx wrote: »

Thats fine we thought there was not much we could do, however the curtisy to speak to us beforehand would of been polite.

Oh and to the poster asking why we cut alot back ia because we wanted to what we had and are going to atart again with the garden but keep one or two trees.

It would have been courteous and polite for you to have made anything that was causing a problem for your neighbours a priority, rather than hanging about to see what you wanted your garden to look like.

Good on em I say.

pleasedelete

Mojisola wrote: »

That conifer wouldn't have regrown if you'd cut it down to and trimmed it back. You'd have been left with a brown trunk to look at. Take the whole thing out and plant some new screening there.

Agree. Assuming the fence is 6ft then 5ft off the tree would have little impact On improving the light except to have a big green tree with a flat brown top.

macman

It's far too big for the site. Taking just 5 feet off it would not remotely have addressed that issue-it would have grown back in a season.

southcoastrgi

I'm afraid i did the same at my ex's house apart from the tree being at the back, the neighbour who's tree it was was not impressed, but totally legal, except if it makes the tree unsafe

Leif

They have butchered it, and they have clearly cut beyond the boundary and into the OP's garden, so it is not legal. How you react depends on how much it means to you, and how much you want your neighbours to like you.

Why have they only now taken a saw to it? I would be quite angry. My neighbour's are very respectful of my property.

Regarding bamboo, be careful, I know someone who has bamboo, and it is a nightmare, and he cannot control it. There are supposed to be non invasive varieties/species.

ERICS_MUM

xxmrksxx wrote: »

Thats fine we thought there was not much we could do, however the curtisy to speak to us beforehand would of been polite.

I agree, especially as you had already spoken to them and they appeared satisfied with what you were doing.

Anyway as another poster said, it's done now and not worth falling out with them. Those leylandii conifers are the devils work and once they've been left untamed you can never trim them back properly. I agree they need to go but looking at your photo is comes as a shock to see how they've butchered it ! What did they do with the trimmings ?

shammyjack

My neighbour cannot understand why his Leylandia are dead.

Long core drill plus an old 220kg tub of Sodium Chlorate did the trick !


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