Does anyone else have next door neighbours who neglect their gardens??

sillyvixen

my mums next door nieghbours dont touch their gardens!! the nieghbour the other side offered to lend his lawnmower!! they declined!! the other nieghbour now does the frount lawn and has put up a high fence in the back!

snails's_pace

shawtj2 wrote: »

I have one neighbour to the left who leaves his small front garden to grow into 5ft high grass (he hates gardening, so I have to fight off the seedlings from his grass) and to my right this owner is not in all week, leaves his curtains closed all the time, has a small lawn with ill looking small conifers and he told me he hates gardening. Yet I keep mine tidy and look after it, why is it then that these people buy houses with gardens if they hate it so much???

phewww, as soon as I read "his small front garden" i realised your not my neighbour :o

angelavdavis

I once lived next to a house who had fenced off half their garden and left the previous owners veg and fruit garden to go wild ( why?? )

Anyway, when I moved in, I walked down the end of the garden and nearly fell flat on my face when I tripped over the 20 foot strawberry runners from next door!

Once I got over the shock, I potted them up and stocked my garden with them!:D

Some bad gardening neighbours have their blessings :rotfl:

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

When we moved here my new next door neighbour told me all about the other people in the street,saying about one that had a particularly beautiful garden that "she's a bit snobby but she keeps her garden tidy so I can't complain"I nearly choked her own garden was covered in weeds and although we have only tiny gardens hers was full of old broken plant pots with dead plants in them and a big bag of rubble that looked like it had been there for years.To top it all off there were leaves piled high from the oak trees over the road that fell in the autumn.This was early August and they still had'nt been removed.We did get our hopes up when we got up one morning and they had tidied up the garden,it was spotless.Turned out they were having the house valued so wanted it looking spotless.Anyway our hopes were dashed when after the valuer had been the pots and bags of rubbish returned,put back exactly where they were.The garden has overgrown again,and last autumn brought the leaves again,which with every wind are blown into my garden for me to sweep up.On the bright side living in a terraced house,my neighbours are the quietest,most pleasant people you will ever meet so I won't complain.People are strange though.

Butterfliesarepretty

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Yeah but come on, not 5 feet, grass doesn't get that tall, unless its elephant grass.

I was guessing the height, its just couch grass (the worst for seeding).:mad:

culpepper

My neighbour is very elderly and just cant manage hers. I do all of ours which is huge (veg garden and large lawns).My OH probably touches the mower about 3 times a year for the little lawn in the front .
Our neighbours on the other side sometimes go over and hack the brambles down for elderly neighbour 1. Her daughter is always promising to but never does. The guy who strims the grass on the verges also strims her little front lawn for her for free. She is a lovely lady though ,would rather have her and the brambles than a horror with a landscaped extravaganza.

Patches41048

Are you on speaking terms with her?

If so why not offer to take over that bit as perhaps a veg plot for you, and I'm sure a handful of beans etc would please her as well

Time & energy permitting of course

Farway

We're not really on speaking terms but there is no animosity either, she had no problem when i had to go into her garden to secure my fence. Thats when i realised just how bad it was. I was tempted to offer to put weedkiller over the area (purely out of self interest) but she has little kids and pets ... besides i spend too much on my own garden .. :rotfl:

A nice idea though, my ex left me with a large pond in the garden which is nice but I would have prefered a larger area for plants, so along with all the other stuff I've inherited my growing space is limited ... prob for the best though, I love gardening but my enthusiasm often overtakes the time available.

simonts

I hate mowing..however I get on well with my neighbour...He mows I take him down the pub

borntobefree

One of our neighbours (3 doors down Thankfully) has a 100 foot garden filled with......trees:eek:....park sized trees:eek:. The neighbours on both sides are being held up from doing extensions as the neighbours with the tress is worried about the extensions blocking.........their light:rotfl::rotfl::D

Kaz2904

I'm afraid I'm the neighbour with the mucky front garden. Istarted digging up all the concrete out the front of ours last year but the weather was so awful I wasn't able to finish it.
We've a lot of DIY to do in the house and the gardens but I hope for it to be lovely one day.
The trouble is with working full time DH and I are never together long enough to do all the jobs we have. I did get some builders in to give me a quote to finish it off but they never got back to me.
Time and money are often what stops people from being able to do these things.