Last autumn, our neighbour asked if he could move our climbing plant off the shared boundary wall so they could paint the fence top bit (it's a brick wall with some spiky bits on top if that makes sense).
It's technically our boundary. I’d said I wasn’t bothered about painting the fence bits as the plant covered the spikes anyway but he insisted as they’d built the wall, that he wanted to paint them all (he was doing the other sides around his property.
The was full of huge gorgeous flowers. So I asked him to wait till they had bloomed and to not kill the plant. He agreed.
After it finished flowering, I gently lifted the plant tendrils off, and asked them to pop them back on when they were done.
We had a lot of building work going on ourselves (scaffolding up) at the time, and then winter and a family bereavement, so can't really remember, but I'm sure I put the plant back on the fence.
Last week I noticed there was hardly any of the plant left (and nothing on the fence). I presumed it had died back over winter. it was starting to sprout new leaves. I noticed they never painted the fence either but I lifted the tendrils back onto the fence, carefully threading the few strands that were regrowing round the fence.
I’ve just come home to find they’ve cut them all off!!! They’ve virtually killed it which must’ve meant they came onto our property to do so, without our knowledge or consent.
I’m pretty annoyed (f*cking furious) but don’t know how best to handle this.
I don't think I'm being unreasonable btw to be upset about this but didn't know what other heading to put this under,