Neighbours causing such a fuss about ivy! Really?

How are you supposed to remove it when there is a fence in the way though? I have thought about digging under the fence in sections at a time.

DH was given some syringes with needles when a dentist retired. The old fashioned kind. I dreamt of injecting the roots with weedkiller sometimes.

My advice wait for a storm in the dead of night and pull them down ninja saboteurs style. Our neighbours did come down in a storm, thankfully. So we have nice new fencing.

Same.

We noticed just this week that branches are not only coming between the wooden panels (which I keep cutting off/back), but the bulky 'trunk' is now expanding and pushing out two of the fence panels. It's so infuriating, especially since we know fine well they don't give a shit and won't fix it.

The ivy coming from my neighbours is totally wrecking my fence.

It's really invasive and quick growing, plus most killers won't kill it. I say this from having it in my front and back garden, it's a constant battle, so I can understand your neighbour's point of view. A neighbour further up our road has removed it from the front of his house, well, the damage on the brick work is unbelievable .

Why is that cheeky ?
They offered to help

Where was the before pic ?

ivy is awful. I said previously next doors just spouts into my garden and takes over

i paid for someone to come and cut it back when I had decking put in

bottom pic is 2w later and you can see it over the top of fence again and creeping Up to the right of the pic

I am on weekly guard now and chopping /pulling any I see

Sorry but I can't stand ivy - we used to have and I really liked it - until it detroyed our garage and we had to demolish the garage.
Also it's really toxic and that's another worry of mine because of my pets.
We have a neighbour that lives on the road behind us, and a few houses down but her ivy has invaded 5 gardens on our road (our back gardens meet) about 4 gardens on her own road (not including hers obviously) and is now starting to invade mine and is creeping onto our newly built garage.
She's ignored everyone who's asked her nicely to keep it cut back and it's a menace. It's choked neighbours plants, wrapped itself around garden features and it's hard work for the neighbours who do try to remove it because it keeps growing back and crawling under. over and through fences - not really fair when THEY didn't choose or want this ivy.

Ivy is a very invasive plant and takes root quite easily. I wd harbour a guess in that if they are in their late 70s, even if they are active, they may struggle to bend down and get onto their knees and back up again easily. I say this coz I'm in my 50s with arthritic knees and my mum now in her 80s struggled from her 70s to bend and go down into her knees without pain or fear of falling. Getting back up again is equally hard for her. It may be easier for u and hubby with nice young limbs, but it cd really be a painful chore for them. I do hope I don't sound too preachy btw ☺️ PS maybe take all ivy out along their border and plant some elsewhere in your garden

I'm getting it from 2 neighbours. One had the cheek to offer to help me cut some back on my side after they built an extra fence for their hot tub, which I now let grow high and push over back to their side 😂.

I was in a garden centre and picked up an ivy plant, I mentioned to a man next to me I was hoping it would spread to cover an ugly path. He said it’ll do more than that, turns out he was a builder and had gone into a house to do a job and there was ivy growing inside the bedroom! It had grown through the walls and was spreading!
That’s something you’d expect from Japanese knotweed I don’t know how it’s not in the same class. Op your neighbour is right to be annoyed when it’s that invasive and damaging.

Also cost a lot of money for us to trim it and tame it. Not fair.

Ivy is a pain in the arse from a neighbours side coming over! It has totally destroyed some of our garden because it is so invasive.

I think youve got it spot on. They probably started out pleasant but as OP has clearly disregarded them theyve got pissed off, its taken multiple comments saying the same thing just for her to finally realise it is a bloody issue.

I love the look of ivy but not a chance id be having it near my garden. There was gorgeous ivy in a local woodland and it took down a big brick wall which caused all sorts of bloody issues and resulted in a road being shut to rebuild it (wall was roadside) so i can see why they don't want it taking hold!

I think the neighbour would prefer it was dug out rather than cut back. It’s constantly invading their garden and they’re fed up with it. They’ve asked you politely, now they’re getting miffed as it appears it hasn’t been done to their satisfaction.
Be a considerate neighbour, they’re thin on the ground 🙂

This. I’ve had the back of my garden cleared and decking and ivy is starting to squeeze through the fence behind me

I got it cleared with the decking but it’s coming from behind and every day I cut it down I’d see a new bit

its uncontrollable

Sorry op I'm confused about the timeline, when the neighbour last complain was there ivy leaves his side of the fence (even minimal)?
If he last complained when there was still ivy his side, the neighbour might not complain again if you make sure if doesn't go through to his side any more.

Peekaboooooo · Yesterday 20:13
So now we've given the ivy a good cut back on our side and I've checked it's all OK on their side, what do we do now if they say anything more or are rude to us again? C

Peekaboooooo · Yesterday 20:26
Our neighbour saying again about the ivy yesterday morning really got to me. Especially as we'd already cut it back.
@hididdlyho

From the first comment yesterday they are saying they've now cut it back further and it's now okay on the neighbours side (on the first post the ivy was popping through- day before yesterday) so it sounds like they hacked it back but not enough that it wasn't going through the fence, then hacked it back further yesterday, so there was no more ivy popping through the fence as of yesterday and the neighbour had complained about it the day before yesterday (before the second hack back) and op is worried they complain again
Well if they're complaining when it's not on their side, then they are being unreasonable like your neighbour but if they stop complaining when op keeps it cut back and it's no longer going through the fence, then problem solved. Op just needs to prevent it going through which is easier than the neighbours trying to cut it back behind shrubs

Our neighbour saying again about the ivy yesterday morning really got to me. Especially as we'd already cut it back

Just going by what the OP says here. Obviously I've no way of knowing what it looked like before and after. Presumably the neighbour was aware they'd been working at cutting the ivy back, so mentioning it again just makes him sound like a controlling dick. Also suggests won't be happy with them maintaining it so he's going to try to harass them to dig it up. Hopefully I'm wrong, it's awful living next to someone who insists on bumping into you leaving your house just to have a go at you.

It may be me reading it wrong but when I've read the last 2 posts by op it sounds like she cut the ivy down yesterday and they complained at her the day before that (so when the ivy was still poking through the fence) if the neighbours carry on complaining if op ensures it no longer goes into their garden where it effects them, then yes they are unreasonable.
It also sounds like they've been okay neighbours for the last few years, so it this is the hill the op is willing to die on then so be it. But personally if be either stopping it from growing through the fence or growing an invasive plant away from the border and growing it up something else where it doesn't impact on anyone else.
Your neighbour seems to just b complaining about other people's standards that wouldn't impact on her if she wasn't being nosey and looking over hedges or fences, she can reasonably be told to mind her own business as it isn't inconveniencing her if someone hasn't cut back their lavender for a few years etc
Personally I have a neighbour who has a few bushes and trees I try to trim back from my side a couple times a year, but it doesn't take over my garden so it doesn't bother me, I will need a tree surgeon over the next year to cut back some of the taller overhanging branches and will probably pop a message to him to check it he would like any trimming down his side while I've got the tree surgeon in. But if he started growing bamboo or ivy I wouldn't be overly happy if it was coming through my side because that is a constant maintenance issue and I don't fancy it popping up everywhere or attacking my shed and I don't want to be out every few weeks hacking it down

Reread the OP's last post, neighbour was still having a go at her after they'd cut the ivy. In other words, having a strop because she refused to pull it all up to suit him. He's sounds like an ass who'll always find something to complain about. He's probably also frustrated about having to deal with weeds growing from the other neighbour, but that isn't the OP's problem. My neighbour is the same and has always bitched to me about other gardens which back on to her's and how they don't maintain them to her liking. She can't pop her head over the hedge to have a moan at them because it's too high, so I get it in the neck, despite the fact I'm out working in my garden every week. Even her son who lives with her won't help her out unless she pays him, because she's equally shitty towards him! Some people are never happy.

We love our neighbours and live in harmony but their plants coming over my fence drive me mad. Ivy comes over but it’s only on my fence and I cut it back myself, that is fine. They have really thorny plants that when land on my grass we tread on it (yes sometimes we are in bare feet but should be able to do that if we want) and their plants in front garden have grown so far out it’s actually hindered us getting out of the door and I don’t think it’s my job to cut it back. So whilst I think they are over reacting to a bit of Ivy I can see why it’s annoying if they have to deal with your foliage.