To keep a plant pot under my hedge?

[VivaLeBeaver]

Last summer I must have been doing some gardening and somehow a plant pot got placed upside down under the conifer hedge at the end of the garden. The woman who lives at the back of us came round and complained....I'm talking about a 30cm pot. There's no back story with the neighbour at all. I thought it was a bit odd to get het up about but said I'd move it. I moved what I thought she was referring to and she was round the next day complaining it was still there....so I searched and found and removed another one. All was well.

The dog has spent the day today driving me demented escaping from the garden. There has always been a small wire fence at the base of the conifer hedge but there must be holes in it and he's been in and out the garden all afternoon.

He's getting out behind the shed which I can't squeeze behind. I made two little fences out of garden canes and chicken wire either end of the shed. He managed to push through it. I've now blocked it off with a massive plant pot and some bricks.

She's complained already. Do I just tell her tough?

[MarianneEnjolras]

One plant pot?

Send her round to look at my garden. That'll give her something to complain about.

It looks like a cross between a garden centre and a scrap yard thanks to dh and his "hobbies".

[Catsmamma]

does she want to look at your makeshift fence or viva puppy crapping on her lawn??

...she sounds cuckoo, at best!! :D

[DarlingGrace]

Tell her its a bug/snail/hedgehog house

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Is it an egregiously ugly pot, spoiling her visual amenity? If not, and it's on your land, I'd smile sweetly at her and then ignore. In other words

YANBU

[Binkyridesagain]

Its not in her garden is it? If not then she can whistle. If it was me, everytime she came round to complain I would add another pot.

[starfishmummy]

Is it in your garden or encroaching on hers?

If it is in yours then yanbu but if in hers then yabu!!

[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtle]

What's her grounds for complaint?? It looks messy?

I'd just say "thanks for letting me know, but I put it there in purpose".

She has no right to complain about what you do with a 30cm plant pot!

Could you put it the right way up and plant so etching in it????

[FunkyBoldRibena]

It's a toad habitat.

Put whatever pots you want in your garden, wherever you want them.

[struggling100]

I don't think you're being unreasonable, but it might be wise to avoid an argument with a neighbour if it's relatively easy to do so. You could go to the garden centre and buy an inexpensive shrub that will fill the hole, and stop the dog escaping. Wouldn't that be better than starting a fight? You never know the full story in these cases- maybe she's terrified of toads... or pots! (One of my friends hates buttons! BUTTONS for godssake!)

[JonSnowsPout]

Id put out a line of gnomes on plant pots facing her garden.

Put what you want in the garden

[VivaLeBeaver]

It's completely on my land. She said she doesn't like looking at it. Mmmm her sofa has its back to the window so she doesn't even sit looking out the bloody window.

I could try and plant a shrub but I need it really shoved right in at the bottom of the conifer hedge and I'm not sure anything would grow there.

Apart from that one pot the garden is tidy. Not that she can see into it anyway because of the thick conifer hedge.

This is the same neighbour btw who last year asked me to cut the hedge on her side which for the sake of neighbourly relations we did. The hedge is our boundary but don't people normally cut their own side? She's going to want it doing again this year I bet. Last year she was a bit of a pita about it. Asked, I said we'd do it and the next week asked me why it hadn't been done. Mmmm, cos dh works and we had plans at the weekend.

[Floggingmolly]

If it spoils her view (as if!) it's up to her to place something more visually appealing in front of it; on her side of the hedge.
Some people really have too much time on their hands.

[StarGazeyPond]

Marianne said - It looks like a cross between a garden centre and a scrap yard thanks to dh and his "hobbies"

Snap, snap, snap. I am ashamed of our garden every time I walk through the gate.

[AuroraRoared]

Oh, she sounds like hard work. A breezy, "sorry, we need it there so it's staying" is more explanation than she needs or deserves.

I don't understand this urge to police other people's gardens.

[ilovepowerhoop]

I think you should collect hundreds of plant pots and use them to block all the escape routes so your dog cant get out

get one of these

[VivaLeBeaver]

That giant pot is fab but sadly it wouldn't fit under the hedge.

Right plant pot is staying!

[Ohwhatfuckeryisthis]

Get a few of these facing her garden.