Trees growing in neighbour's garden spreading into ours...

Emily_Joy

I had a chat with the neighbours saying that I will be tidying up this small part of the garden which has been long neglected, and that I ultimately would like to replace the fence panels, but probably not right now, since I have time for the garden only during the weekends and don't like to be outside when the rain is pouring. After a couple of green bins of Ivy have come down, it is starting to look like if I chop some 30cm of a tree growing on my side of the border, some 3 meters of Ivy (or whatever it is) will probably fall on the roof of their outbuilding (or right in front of it...)

I am very concerned about causing damage   On one hand, the tree probably has to come down - sooner than later, the situation is not going to resolve itself. On the other hand, I am the last person who will be telling someone else what they should do with their garden.... what are the options? How does one usually deal with the trees that grow too close to the border?...

Emily_Joy

subjecttocontract said:

I'm not sure what you are asking for from this forum. Surely before you bought the property you looked at it, including the garden with a view to its size and any work that might be needed ? If it's overgrown cut it back.....nobody is going to do it for you unless you get a gardener in to do the work. 

Frankly, the answer is no - I didn't look very carefully at the garden, nor this particular issues were visible when we viewed it in the end of April. My attention was primary on the house itself - and even then I missed carefully hidden signs of DPC injected - and I nearly pulled out because of it later. (The OH talked me out of it).