niegbours house and garden

thebullsback

Hi everyone I have the perfect niegbour ecept for the state of there overgrown garden and badly maintained property.
we live in pre war terraced houses and both own our properties this been the case I reckon there is very little I can do to make my niegbour tidy his overgrown garden and maintain his property.OR is there???

tired_dad

Yes; you can offer to do it for them!

I suppose if there was vermin or a H&S issue you might get some authority interested. Outside of that you need to watcg Gardeners World and learn to love unkempt wild gardens and the wonderful biodiversity they support.....:)

thebullsback

by far the main problem is a large apple tree that is getting bigger every year .I worry about its roots and it does obstruct a lot of light on one side of my bay window

tired_dad

Do a search on this forum. Loads of posts about v similar issues.

You will learn that your perceived right to light is not what it seems esp when up against a tree in a neighbours land.

thebullsback

like I said in the op I think im goosed as in England an English mans home is his castle but I thought id try.

glasgowdan

Just ignore it. Everyone has different priorities.

martinthebandit

Offer to show him how to prune his apple tree so that he gets a better crop next year?

tired_dad

Yup, I agree. Offer a good free winter prune.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

get a bucket of apples from him and make a chutney with onions, sultanas and cinnamon.

tiggerkid

One of my neighbours has an overgrown hedge and several overgrown trees. We've only been in our house for just over 2.5 years but my neighbours haven't been able to do anything about that for over 40 years now. One of them hired someone to trim the hedge hoping the guy would at least offer to split the cost but he did no such thing. We also keep just keep trimming what we can on our side. I am not too sure what else can be done about this.

no1catman

We have a neighbour one side, who will mo the lawn, but the cable only goes so far - so the final eight feet is abandoned, with no thought of getting an extension lead.
Likewise, when we moved in, they privet hedge on the back boundary was about six feet high, now it's at least fifteen feet high. In the front they had a new drive laid, which also covered most of the front lawn, at least now they don't have two feet weeds in the (old) drive, they do have weeds grow up in the bit of front garden left.
Some people, just couldn't give a 'monkey's'!