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Neighbours growing plants on fence

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Whateveritsallmadnow · 27/04/2025 21:40

It's their fence, its broken and rotten so they are trying to hide it. Looks awful our side, we would just replace it and pay if they can't afford to but there plants are just going to wreck that too. Anything we can do we have spoken with them.

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Whateveritsallmadnow · 01/05/2025 12:51

mossymud · 01/05/2025 07:07

Hardly. Oil and rubbish are g a natural feature of gardens, plants..are?

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It's the effort to clear rather than the item itself

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Magnastorm · 01/05/2025 11:43

Have you actually spoken to your neighbours about it?

Lavender14 · 01/05/2025 11:41

Whateveritsallmadnow · 30/04/2025 22:27

It's their fence broken they are trying to hide from their side ! We are the ones looking at the broken fence and overground weeds

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Perhaps I've missed it but have you suggested you go halves with them on a new fence?

mossymud · 01/05/2025 07:07

Whateveritsallmadnow · 27/04/2025 22:24

Is there a reason I should maintain my neighbours choice of overgrown plants, I'm wanting to do the correct thing, just curious. You could put it on par with me throwing oil and rubbish over their wall and expecting them to deal with it and tidy it.

Hardly. Oil and rubbish are g a natural feature of gardens, plants..are?

StormCloud52 · 01/05/2025 01:23

Why is the OP getting such a hard time? Brambles can take over a garden.

Gogo509 · 01/05/2025 00:21

Jabberwok · 30/04/2025 22:24

So you expect them to look at your ugly broken fence? Fuck that and fuck you.. Even if it was a great fence, they are dull and I would plant the fuck out of the fence

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Whateveritsallmadnow · 30/04/2025 22:57

Nope fully established lovely garden lots of plants trees shrubs, birds lawn and many wildlife, all very nice apart from rotten fence.

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EveInEden · 30/04/2025 22:50

Is battling weeds part of owning a garden? We battle brambles, ground elder, bindweed, sticky weed, nettles, dandelions, moss because we plated a garden with soil and flora and fauna does it thing, and these thing appear. Ground elder is the worst. Blink and the bed is full of it.

I guess if you have a few random plants, fake grass and hard core this may be undesirable but it's nature trying to find a home.

Just sort it, with minimum use of pesticides and weedkiller, unless you really don't care.

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Whateveritsallmadnow · 30/04/2025 22:39

Yes it is just a matter of time before it falls, just also know law about not having to have fence so would probably just end up open with more growing through. Really does annoy me, let's just all think of others.

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ShodAndShadySenators · 30/04/2025 22:39

You really need to construct your own fence on the inside of the existing one. It's expensive but it's the only way to get a secure structure that's the height and style you want. You'll still have to trim back their lousy weeds every now and again but it should be less cutting to do and you don't have to see their tatty rotten one.

It's not nice when neighbours don't care what effect their decisions have on others, no. But t'was ever thus. My NDN have brambles, nettles and bindweed which spread underground so appear under our fence regularly. I spray them with weedkiller when I see them so it doesn't get too bad. It's annoying because it creates work for me, but it's just the way it is.

mathanxiety · 30/04/2025 22:35

And next time there's a big storm, you could help the fence across the rainbow bridge, if it really is in ramshackle condition...

mathanxiety · 30/04/2025 22:33

Brambles are a pita and they will spread into your garden.

I suggest surreptitiously identifying where the main stems are, marking the spots on your side of the fence, and going out one night with a few kettles of boiling water for the roots. Pour it as close to the fence as you can get it, or if the roots are not close to the fence, you can bore small holes under the fence toward the roots to get the water as close as possible. Fill in the holes and put a little sod or potted plants at the places you dug. Boiling water itself doesn't leave a trace.

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Whateveritsallmadnow · 30/04/2025 22:27

It's their fence broken they are trying to hide from their side ! We are the ones looking at the broken fence and overground weeds

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Jabberwok · 30/04/2025 22:24

So you expect them to look at your ugly broken fence? Fuck that and fuck you.. Even if it was a great fence, they are dull and I would plant the fuck out of the fence

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Whateveritsallmadnow · 30/04/2025 22:09

Missing the point really. It's just rude to expect others to be put out through their personal choices. I am aware of the law just wanted suggestions to try to keep neighbourly when they aren't really bothered

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Lavender14 · 30/04/2025 22:05

I mean, I just cut back any branches that come through my fence on my neighbours side... we did keep any bushes or hedging trimmed that grew on our side but it's harder to trim when it's backed to a fence unless you enter your neighbours property to do so. We also would have grown ivy etc over our fence which looked nice and added privacy to the fence but kept it well clipped.

Comparison to throwing rubbish into someone's garden is a big stretch... this to me is part of living in a terrace. Would you be happy for them to come into your garden regularly to trim it on your side?

Ultimately you have zero right to control what they grow on their side whether you deem it an eye sore or not. You can control whatever creeps onto your property.

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Whateveritsallmadnow · 30/04/2025 21:58

So final vote in I'm being unreasonable by 72% apparently. Just curious out of those how many have their garden ruined by a neighbours choice rather than those that just like plants and have either nice neighbours or massive plots of land. More than love a nice plant just not when it wrecks a fence that makes my garden look dire

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Nannyfannybanny · 29/04/2025 07:41

You can't put salt or anything else on someone's plants to kill them, tempting as it is..every time our neighbours fence fell, because it was so rotten,it fell on our garden, ruined our plants. The fence posts were rotten at ground level. We're retired, they're younger wages coming in. They never offered to pay or helped physically, not even a thank you. Technically,we aren't allowed to grow plants up it. I had hoped that because we paid for the fence,it belonged to us. I had an elderly friend who was a gardener,he told me it unfortunately didn't. I paid for an hour's consult with a solicitor, she confirmed this, said we should keep the old panels, give them back to the neighbours, can you imagine doing this, sadly, they can do what they like and they have caused a lot of damage to them. We're not talking a small amount of work or money here, the fence is over 150 foot long. A lot of friends said we were mad, but we paid a lot of money for our plants, some have moved with us and are over 25 years old. I cannot for the life of me understand why people who don't like gardening buy property with a big garden

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Whateveritsallmadnow · 28/04/2025 21:37

Now read your other posts @Sofiewoo not entertaining you any further.

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Whateveritsallmadnow · 28/04/2025 21:23

And having to cut a plant back is maintaining

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Whateveritsallmadnow · 28/04/2025 21:20

Additionallly making the entire fence look like a complete eyesore, but yes I must be mental wanting a nice garden, I wouldn't dream of throwing rubbish or weeds their way cause I'm nice and respect others

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Whateveritsallmadnow · 28/04/2025 21:16

Probably because I don't want their weeds in my garden, like they wouldn't want my rubbish

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Sofiewoo · 28/04/2025 19:03

Whateveritsallmadnow · 27/04/2025 22:24

Is there a reason I should maintain my neighbours choice of overgrown plants, I'm wanting to do the correct thing, just curious. You could put it on par with me throwing oil and rubbish over their wall and expecting them to deal with it and tidy it.

You aren’t maintaining their plant, you can cut what grows into your garden, you don’t have to.
No it’s nothing like you throwing rubbish and oil on their way. This makes you sound mental that you can’t understand the difference between them growing plants on their own fence.

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Whateveritsallmadnow · 28/04/2025 19:01

Thanks all sounds like can only hope neighbours are reasonable but suspect they know the rules so will do as they please, they seem that way inclined. Some good tips about potential options 😀

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BakelikeBertha · 28/04/2025 17:13

You could try buying some bags of table salt and pouring them around the area of the roots OP, my sister managed to kill a tree by doing this, so it may work.