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Garden eyesore.. photo attached (when it uploads)

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Whitelotus5 · 03/05/2025 16:23

Relatively lighthearted as I probably won’t say anything but… sitting here with a cup of tea staring at it.

YABU - it’s fine
YANBU - annoying

Garden eyesore.. photo attached (when it uploads)
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VivIsBlonde · 03/05/2025 20:02

ThirdStorm · 03/05/2025 16:38

They’ll definitely fill out, hiding the frame and be beautiful your side. I think it’s a Red Robin and they are glorious. I look out on these behind my fence.

I would absolutely hate to have to look at that every day!
I don’t like trees they just make a mess in our garden when they drop leaves and as for blossom or anything else that flowers!!!

Sortofdontwantto · 03/05/2025 20:01

Surely you’d rather look at some plants rather than a vista of identikit box houses as you currently have. It’s depressing right now

Frostynoman · 03/05/2025 20:00

I would agree that the lack of straight lines and uniformity is somewhat irritating. Nothing a gin wouldn’t sort out

Essydubz · 03/05/2025 20:00

Honestly, and as respectfully as I can as a keen gardener, I would be more worried about staining your dry parched looking fence and tending to your lawn. Maybe add a flower bed and reduce some of that patchy grass. At least your neighbour is trying. And again, I don't mean any malice. Hugs S

Seamond · 03/05/2025 19:56

What, your fence or patch of dead grass

UnstableCow · 03/05/2025 19:53

Toootss · 03/05/2025 19:46

I penned this to inspire you OP:-

The Fence and the Trees
A fence once stood in a quiet field,
Of weathered wood and iron sealed,
It marked a line both firm and plain,
Yet bore no malice, bore no chain.
On either side, the tall trees grew,
With leaves of green and bark of hue,
They whispered low in morning breeze,
And danced in dusk with graceful ease.
The fence would watch through seasons’ span,
The laughter of the leaves began,
And though it split the earth below,
The roots ignored the line they know.
The oaks would lean with gentle grace,
And shade both sides in their embrace,
Their branches reached across the line—
A quiet pact, a soft design.
The fence would creak, the trees would sing,
Of boundary and blossoming,
One held the space, the other grew,
Each faithful to what they must do.
So here they stand—both wood and will—
In meadow wide and evening still,
A fence, some trees, a sky above,
A lesson drawn in quiet love

Edited

Ask AI to do a poem short but sweet’

Darkambergingerlily · 03/05/2025 19:53

Think you should do some gardening in your garden then you’ll have something to look at on your side of the fence

Horses7 · 03/05/2025 19:52

Buy your own red robins and hide that fence!

Toootss · 03/05/2025 19:51

I wonder what kind of trees they are -can we have a close up of the leaves OP?
They might grow into full size trees which would be quite nice.
If yours is the sunny side of the fence and they are flowering trees you will get most of the flowers on your side which would be nice

Moveoverdarlin · 03/05/2025 19:50

I’m LOLing at the amount of people that think the OP is referring to her own fence as the eyesore when in fact she is referring to the pleached trees which probably cost at least £300 each as the eyesore.

RipleyJones · 03/05/2025 19:48

I love MN

AMurderofMurderingCrows · 03/05/2025 19:48

I thought it was gonna be a trampoline or a hideous children's pink play frame or the likes, not trees, in a garden. The horror!

Toootss · 03/05/2025 19:46

I penned this to inspire you OP:-

The Fence and the Trees
A fence once stood in a quiet field,
Of weathered wood and iron sealed,
It marked a line both firm and plain,
Yet bore no malice, bore no chain.
On either side, the tall trees grew,
With leaves of green and bark of hue,
They whispered low in morning breeze,
And danced in dusk with graceful ease.
The fence would watch through seasons’ span,
The laughter of the leaves began,
And though it split the earth below,
The roots ignored the line they know.
The oaks would lean with gentle grace,
And shade both sides in their embrace,
Their branches reached across the line—
A quiet pact, a soft design.
The fence would creak, the trees would sing,
Of boundary and blossoming,
One held the space, the other grew,
Each faithful to what they must do.
So here they stand—both wood and will—
In meadow wide and evening still,
A fence, some trees, a sky above,
A lesson drawn in quiet love

Annielou67 · 03/05/2025 19:44

No offence intended but you are obviously not a gardener, or you are into gardening minimalism! Tbh if I had put up espaliered trees on the border, or any tree on the border I would have discussed it with my neighbour. I can’t tell what the trees are. Red Robin maybe, maybe laurel?….but you are probably going to have to prune and tidy your side, that’s what makes you not unreasonable. You also need some reassurance as to the height of the hedging. Seriously, unless you are the neighbours from hell who they are desperate to block out, I think they should have mentioned it and discussed maintenance of it.

WednesdaysChild25 · 03/05/2025 19:40

I’d be just happy to have a garden to be honest

Anjo2011 · 03/05/2025 19:38

They will be lovely when they have grown. You will have decent screening so you won’t see into each others gardens, what’s not to like.

TiggyTomCat · 03/05/2025 19:38

Seriously? It's the only thing making your own garden (from the photo at least!) look pretty!

DisapprovingSpaniel · 03/05/2025 19:31

I would genuinely bloody love my neighbours to suddenly erect these "eyesores".

Instead they seem insistent on tearing down anything providing even a modicum of privacy so that I can stare, unencumbered, into their house.

charabang · 03/05/2025 19:29

I'd be thankful for the free privacy. They'll soon fill out and you won't see the frames.

EasternStandard · 03/05/2025 19:25

I think you should plant something nice in front of the fence

I didn’t know what you were referring to

itcouldhavebeenme · 03/05/2025 19:21

I've had a glass of wine and got stuck down the rabbit hole that is MN and there have been some 'interesting' threads today.

I genuinely thought the eye sore referred to your bare fench and that you were looking for advice on what to do with it (planting something - pleached trees perhaps?).

Until I read the responses and realise you were referring to your neighbours' pleached trees. Sorry but they look better than your fence already and will look fantastic when they mature.

Shadowsunray · 03/05/2025 19:08

Yotoyoto · 03/05/2025 18:16

Out of interest everyone saying it’s an ugly fence - it’s just a fence ?! What are they supposed to look like?

They usually have plants growing up them / in front of them.

Shadowsunray · 03/05/2025 19:02

LittleGreenDragons · 03/05/2025 16:51

Yes OP, your garden is an eyesore. Don't you like flowering shrubs or pretty flowers at all?

Agreed!

RipleyJones · 03/05/2025 18:55

Whitelotus5 · 03/05/2025 16:32

And yeah I was referring to the 4 giant trellis’s that popped up today - genuinely lighthearted, I realise they will look better when they’ve grown in.

They’ll look great in future. I’m thinking maybe they should have put 5 up.

Unpaidviewer · 03/05/2025 18:49

New build gardens are horrid. Get some plants in there OP and it will look loads better.