Neighbour butchered our tree

neas

Always two sides to a story. Basically you've not been considerate o the neighbour, chopping down other trees that affect you but ignoring a tree that is affecting them.

If you going to get bamboo, make a concrete base under the soil for it to sit in... as it develops it spreads sideways and shoots up through the lawn... with brittle hard stalks... ruins a lawn.

Can get bamboo sprouts 5 foot away from main cluster.... which btw includes your neighbours garden again!

I dug up a small ish (5 ft heigh by 5 foot diameter) bamboo 'shrub'... and its core root cluster was a right pain to remove (highly dense with spikey roots to penetrate soil/rubble)... Its one step down from knotweed if you ask me...

Davesnave

Regarding bamboo, there are various species, just as there are with trees. Not every tree is a Leyland cypress.

If all of them were as rampant as some posters describe, they wouldn't be £40+ per pot.

As usual, DYOR.

I_have_spoken

Bit cheeky to slice the overhanging branches like that, but TBH that tree should have been chopped down and ground out ASAP.

Totally out of scale, too near the house, blocking light, ruining garden. Horrid, get rid.

xxmrksxx

Some people on here seem to get the impression we have been unreasonable and inconsiderate of neighbours by having the tree. As noted we've been here just over three months and did a lot work neat ending up the garden and as out first home didn't want to tack a 30ft conifer without experienced help which my uncle was going to help,what he advised to do was told to the neighbours and we would of done a much better job then hacking at it like they have.

Yes the tree will now come down to fence height, however morally we feel it was wrong.

On another note we went through all the branches and found two crushed birds eggs... Shame for the birds...

As the saying going no point crying over spilled milk it's done and well carry on.

However some of the comments from Internet warriors are quite amusing on this thread.

poppellerant

Davesnave wrote: »

It helps if you read the thread first before commenting.

Which part of the thread do you feel excuses the OP for not promptly attending to their garden, such that it doesn't interfere with other neigbours properties?

theoretica

xxmrksxx wrote: »

On another note we went through all the branches and found two crushed birds eggs...

Now that is illegal if they knew birds were nesting there.

Leif

neas wrote: »

Always two sides to a story. Basically you've not been considerate o the neighbour, chopping down other trees that affect you but ignoring a tree that is affecting them.

My neighbours have some decking, and when they sit on it, they overlook my garden. And yet they look after the rest of their garden. That is inconsiderate to me, so I will go round and chop it up. It's their fault.

For you and other internet warriors, a couple of thin trees is not an issue. The sun moves, there is some shade, and some sun, and some people welcome trees. I commented to my neighbour that I had planted near the boundary a Quince on the smaller root stock, and she was disappointed, she wants more wind breaks. On the other side my neighbour has planted a maple, which will give me some shade. It is their right on their land.

olly300

Leif wrote: »

My neighbours have some decking, and when they sit on it, they overlook my garden. And yet they look after the rest of their garden. That is inconsiderate to me, so I will go round and chop it up. It's their fault.

1. Get a trampoline and some kids.
2. Put near the fence but not so near the kids can lean on or touch the fence.
3. When neighbours are in garden sitting on decking the kids come out to play on trampoline.

Kids playing isn't a noise nuisance so neighbour cannot do anything.

Alternatively you can just wave and be annoying neighbour every time you see neighbours relaxing on decking.

Either way neighbours will not like their decking.

Leif

olly300 wrote: »

1. Get a trampoline and some kids.

To get the kids, do I stand outside a local school with a bag of sweets? There might be problems with that. The other approach requires 5 minutes of exertion followed by 16+ years of significant expenditure and hassle, and it will take about 5 years before they are big enough to use a trampoline.

olly300 wrote: »

2. Put near the fence but not so near the kids can lean on or touch the fence.
3. When neighbours are in garden sitting on decking the kids come out to play on trampoline.

They already have a trampoline and kinds. But kids do not bother me.

olly300 wrote: »

Kids playing isn't a noise nuisance so neighbour cannot do anything.

Alternatively you can just wave and be annoying neighbour every time you see neighbours relaxing on decking.

Either way neighbours will not like their decking.

I think you missed the point of my post, which is that what we can do is dictated by law. The idea that the OP was being inconsiderate was silly. It wasn't a long screening conifer hedge, which can be inconsiderate if shading. It was just two conifers. Far worse would be a full size oak tree.

gravitytolls

poppellerant wrote: »

Which part of the thread do you feel excuses the OP for not promptly attending to their garden, such that it doesn't interfere with other neigbours properties?

Three months they've been there, three months! Had it been three years you may have a valid point.