Neighbours brambles coming into my garden

Its_not_paranoia

Agree with spraying them with glyphosate - I'd recommend the mega concentrated stuff off ebay which you dilute yourself, and a basic sprayer from your local DIY shop.

Obviously spraying anything on your land is totally legitimate. Glyphosate is absorbed through the leaves, but then goes down into the roots and kills the whole plant. Whilst spraying just a few overhanging leaves will push it back, it wou't dispatch the whole of a bramble bush as they are quite resistant to Glyphosate. You might also 'inadvertently' spray a little over the fence onto the main plant too. I can't see the neighb noticing/caring.  

pollypenny

Finding the source is the problem for me. 

twopenny

I had brambles well established in a part of my garden when I moved in.
I chopped as close to the ground as possible and painted with SBK. No regrowth but use with care.
You can either do that on your side and that part of the plant won't regrow or do it at the base ann kill the lot.
To pdotect wildlife just tape up treated cut with masking or duct tape.
The resulting dead brown stump is the only thing to be cautious of should someone trip over it. So a second job to remove or plant a shrub to hide it.

Ganga

I am sure as others have said ,ask the elderly neighbours if they would like it cut right back or even cut down /out ,i am sure they will appreciate the offer .

Eldi_Dos

Some shocking advice on here even if it is tongue in cheek, to advocate unilaterally using weedkiller to kill the brambles without a by or leave or informed consent is just shocking. In answer to the op's question you could strike up another conversation with your neighbour and steer the conversation towards garden upkeep and try and judge if they would like their garden worked on but its to much for them and then make decision about approaching council,they will be used to dealing with these situations.I suppose a lot will depend on the age and ability of your neighbour

Eldi_Dos

GDB2222 said:

FreeBear said:

Browntoa said: Just offer to go next door and cut it all off at the ground 

Brambles will shoot up again pretty quick from the stump and any roots left in the ground. You need to dig it out and get rid of the roots. Not an easy task if it is well established.

If you keep chopping them down, does that exhaust the roots eventually? Or, do you have to use a systemic weedkiller?

If you only have one or two rogue brambles you can cut them back as far as you can with secateurs and then place an upturned plant pot on top and weigh down and block any light getting through any drainage holes.Then in a month or two take pot off and cut back any regrowth,it will look a bit like Day of the Triffids,put pot back on and repeat. You can usually stop them in one season if you start early in the year.

adonis

When they fruit why not make blackberry pies and give one to the neighbour?

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the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

Eldi_Dos said:

Some shocking advice on here even if it is tongue in cheek, to advocate unilaterally using weedkiller to kill the brambles

Well it’s not great to let your garden overgrow in to your neighbour’s and these are brambles rather than prized plants. 

I wouldn’t have time to sort out my neighbours garden and wouldn’t want a garden with brambles in it, cut them and they’ll grow back. Spray them and they’ll die, from what OP has said the neighbour will still have plenty of brambles to admire if a few around the edge of one side of their garden die off. 

Emerion

FreeBear said:

Browntoa said: Just offer to go next door and cut it all off at the ground 

Brambles will shoot up again pretty quick from the stump and any roots left in the ground. You need to dig it out and get rid of the roots. Not an easy task if it is well established.

If you keep cutting them back ( a strimmer would deal with the regrowth in minutes), they will die. I did it successfully with a massive monster of bramble. 

Phil4432

Penguin_ said:

Morning all

I own my mid terrace home & have a council tenant on one side of the terrace & their garden is horrifically overgrown, they cut the grass once a year & they have a massive bramble bush that is greater than 50% of the size of their rear garden. I've put fencing up as the walls that separate the garden are only about 4ft high but the brambles are coming up through the fence & behind my shed. I have mentioned to the occupier about it but they are a bit older than me & to be fair it is a massive job to cut it back.

Am I allowed to contact the local authority & ask them, as it is a council house, if they can do something about it?

No, don't ever offer to help people with mental issues.  If something goes wrong, even if its not related to you they'll then blame you.

You can complain to the council ANONYMOUSLY, but bear in mind that councils try their hardest to do as little as possible.  And make sure that the complaint can't be traced back to you by the council tenants.  Its highly doubtful that the council tenants will suddenly start maintaining their garden, so as not to impact their neighbors.   

Cut the brambles on your side back to your boundary, forget about them.