Neighbour attaches trellis to my side of fence?

Upsy_Daisy1

This is a new fence replacing an old one and put up by my neighbour last year and yes it is her fence. I have not been down the garden recently as I have been unwell. But today I wandered down and found she has erected a trellis (not a problem) but attached it to our side of the fence is she allowed to do this.
She has the nice side facing her and the posts are in our garden, she has attached the trellis to the posts in our garden?

sgun

...so if the trellis is on your side how will she grow anything up it? Confused...

Upsy_Daisy1

I know its confusing, I am sorry but being such a new user I can't post pics or links. So yes the trellis is my side as the posts are my side. The upright posts to the fence, sunken into the garden ( my garden)on the boundary have the uprights to the trellis attached to them, so strictly speaking the trellis is my side of the face of the fence. I hope that explains it better.

tanith

If its her fence she can do what she likes with it, I'm surmising she attached the trellis without trespassing on your garden?

Upsy_Daisy1

yes she leant over the fence and screwed it to my side, but strictly speaking her trellis is now in my garden!

tanith

Well I guess it depends on how much you value good relations with your neighbour, you might be able to protest that she is encroaching on your 'space' but is it worth it in the grand scheme of things.

zaax

With a fence like this the border runs down front of the fence (nice side) so the posts are in your garden and she has given you a fence.

If you are going to complain about this take lots and lots of photos including news papers with the fence in to prove the date etc.

Upsy_Daisy1

She is just a neighbour, an acquaintance, I wouldn't call her a friend. But I live in a very rural area and farmers, parish councillors and jsut about everyone go round fencing in land and claiming it as theirs, they even build without planning permission. It just annoys me that people think its 'OK' to encroach on your land!

DaftyDuck

Surely we have a regular member who has issues just like this, someone who has also moved into a rural community, who takes The Firm Correct Line on border issues? I'm sure there have been one or two posts over the past 18 months on the matter, and how well it all turned out? Now, who is it??? Just can't remember....

OP. Your neighbour has erected a nice new fence along the border. Now, trellis has been affixed to the posts from your side. Without trespass. No ugly posts cutting through nice trellis.... just trellis. For which you have not been asked to pay. It Is Free!!!

You may have lost 2cm on the border through this. Or not. Probably not. But, you have a nice new fence from your nice (new?) neighbour...

You say

The upright posts to the fence, sunken into the garden ( my garden)on the boundary

... so, on the boundary, in your garden, in both gardens... not that it really makes any difference! The boundary is a metaphysical line of 0.0mm thickness, somewhere between the two properties. It's rarely accurately defined, rarely as clear as people think. Even a professional will struggle to position it correctly.

I really can't remember who that member was who raised a border dispute back in May 2014... Anyone? I'm sure they'll pop up. I did say to them that I'd never known a border dispute to end well, and they repeatedly asked what I meant. Well, the last post I replied to them on was their asking about CCTV, as they'd had a neighbourly barney right on their front door step. That's what I mean!

Border disputes are simply not worth raising, unless a substantial (not teeny tiny) area is involved, you need concrete proof of the incursion, a good manner in dealing with it, and a firm "Plan B" ("C" and "D") if things turn out differently. Even then, best advice is don't!

OP: drop it. It's just not worth it....

Upsy_Daisy1

I do not have a border dispute, the fence was put up on the line of the previous fence, neither of us have lost any garden. My niggle is this god, awful homemade trellis has been erected using the post which are my side of the fence, the plant instead of climbing up the fence is now climbing over the fence into my garden and up the trellis that is in my garden.
I am a gardener, she is not! I have a very unusual garden I grow hardy tropicals and have an arid bed with cactus and agaves. Honeysuckle growing up a trellis in her garden is no problem but it is in my garden as it does not give the right look!

DaftyDuck

I do not have a border dispute

... yet! Money, meet Upsy, Upsy, this is Money. I think you have a lot in common!

I envisage some extended postings in the next few months, however!

I grew Mediterranean and tropical plants in my last garden; lemons, oranges, kumquats, palms and cacti. Olives in the courtyard, Passiflora on the trellis... The background from the neighbour of a god-awful permanent barbecue and thistles wasn't really the look I wanted. My tough.

I suppose you could give her a Lesson in growing Bougainvillea instead of boring Lonicera. That might go down well. It might give her the "right look" as well... or not!

Now,

the fence was put up on the line of the previous fence .... neither of us have lost any garden

and

is now climbing over the fence into my garden and up the trellis that is in my garden

suggests to me that you might need some advice on CCTV in a few months time... I'll be happy to help with you, just as with any other irascible fellow-poster.

You could talk to your neighbour - invite her round for tea and biscuits in your lovely garden, and offer to buy some top-notch trellis to put up, and maybe each grow plants over half of it.... She may like her Lonicera, after all...

Mind you, you should pay for all of it since, strictly speaking, the trellis is all in your garden....