Neighbour planted 3 new bushes/trees in my garden!

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Came home to find 3 newly planted trees in what is quite clearly my garden as it is my side of the fence!
Am I in my right to pull them out? I don't really want them where they are. Beside the fact that they could've at least asked for permission!!!

@Willow2017 that photo totally looks like 💩

I hope op comes back. I am longing to know what possible justification the neighbour could give for planting stuff in someone else’s garden.

I would be having very firm words with the gardener to let them know their actions were wrong, then instructing them to remove the plants and make good the area.

I really hate conflict too and avoid it a lot - but seriously this is outrageous. It cannot be tolerated. I would have to confront the neighbours about it.

They are out! Gardener removed them yesterday afternoon.
I believe it was his suggestion to put them on our side due to the root issue on theirs.

I am non the wiser as to why neither him or our neighbours felt it was acceptable to do this without asking us first.

Need to know, please update!!!

OP Because they all know they have gone about this the wrong way around.

Good to know the gardener has removed them. Shouldn't have been your worry to do so.

I believe it was his suggestion to put them on our side due to the root issue on theirs

I hope you sacked him.

I hope you got rid- the whole world is not his personal planting playground! Trees returned to neighbours?

Sack your gardener he shouldn't have done that

That's weird. Why are the roots an issue on their side but not a problem on yours? I would tell the gardener to ask in future before he plants anything. His job is mainly to maintain what is already there. I wonder if the neighbours have mentioned the lack of privacy due to the gap and this was his way of pleasing them.

I'd definitely sack him. Not only have PPs provided he knows very little about gardening (planting them too close together), he's planted them without permission.

I’m gobsmacked by this whole episode. You need a sincere apology from both of them.

The gardener suggested this, then went ahead and did it without your permission but you still dont know why?

Obviously you've spoken to the gardener to know that it was his suggestion, so why the fuck did you not question why he thought this was acceptable? And then sack him???

This is either not real or you're the biggest pushover....

I had CF neighbours once who put up a new fence. But instead of using proper support like gravel boards or concrete posts they just waited while I went to work and nailed their fence posts with some struts to my tree's. Then left all their rubbish on my side too!!

The struts were ripped off and all the rubbish thrown back over their shit fence back into their garden, strategically launched so it all landed right outside their back door!

The gardener's idea? I definitely wouldn't have him back.

What a cheek!

All those clamouring to sack the gardener clearly have no idea how hard it is to find even a vaguely reliable one.

I love threads like this.

Not because I enjoy the misery and hassle caused to people by CF and their gardeners but the responses are always hilarious

All those clamouring to sack the gardener clearly have no idea how hard it is to find even a vaguely reliable one.

A gardener who plants bushes in someone else's garden can hardly be called 'reliable'.

Meh. Just overenthusiastic. He dug them up again.

A half way decent gardener would know you do not plant extremely prickly plants at the front of the bed.

These plants are the type of plant you grow along a border to stop people climbing into your garden using them as a natural 'barb wire' due to their thorns.

Oh god get rid of the gardener. I couldn’t trust them on my property.

"Just overenthusiastic"
What??

Any gardener who suggests to my neighbours that he plants prickly bushes in my garden, in a spot they shouldn't even be planted in, because said neighbours dont want to see through the trellis, doesn't ask permission and deliberately waits until I left the house so he could jump over and quickly plant them without my knowledge is not over-enthusiastic. He's sneaky an underhand. He's prioritised the neighbours request over my right to be consulted about the work in MY garden that I OWN and to either permit or refuse to it. He see's me as a mug and a pushover. So yes, he'd be absolutely sacked. And words wpuld be had with my neighbours for agreeing to allow the gardener to do it.

"I believe it was his suggestion to put them on our side due to the root issue on theirs"

What????

Does the root issue affect their whole garden then?

What a crock of shit that sounds.

So did he trespass on your property or have permission as he's your gardener? If he did have permission he still didn't have your say so to plant trees!