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!!!

Ouch, that is war.

I wouldn't be too hard on the gardener. Maybe I'm a pushover but in the gardener's position you could easily assume (or neighbours could simply have said) that you'd ok'd it.

Nobody likes confrontation but the alternative is being taken for a complete mug!

I also say sack the gardener as they didn't check with you first.

The offending items should be removed and the land restored without ANY cost to you.

Speak to the neighbours and make it clear they need to cut such crap out that you'll do with your land and property as you wish and it's none of their business!

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I agree with PPs... They do mean war. Those pyracantha are fuckers!

You NEED to ask the gardener what instruction he was given.

Then you explain it was nothing to do with you. He needs to remove them and put them back in the neighbour's garden, and he needs reminding that although you share him, YOU decide what's planted in your garden, not them.

You need to sort this pronto. They have asked for their property to be deliberately put in your garden. If they don't want to see through the trellis, they can put them on their side.

Your so passive its unreal

I think I would plant something on or climbing over the trellis as it isn't that nice. Put the pyracantha where you don't want trespassers as it's ver jaggy. But it can grow out as well as up and could take up space.
I would also not engage as fury over being able to see the neighours house or whatever usually dies down quite quick once they are used to it.

I'd have pulled them up and placed them on their doorstep.

I'd have pulled them up and thrown them over your fence into their garden. No one has the right to trespass into your own garden and start planting stuff.

Your garden, you didn't ask for these trees, you don't want them. No fuss, no questions, no tinkly laughing, no confrontation. Just pull them out and bin them.

Anyway, they're planted too close together.

There are some really strange threads on here at the moment.

If they are effing pyrocantha, no way would I be uprooting them myself. Those thorns are vicious.

Is the gardener usually good, reliable and nice to work with? I can entirely imagine a scenario where the neighbour assures them that this whole thing has been discussed with you at length and agreed on. Then the gardener goes ahead, never imagining for a minute that your neighbours are lying their arses off to him. They have put him in a very difficult position.

What I don't understand is, if they don't like looking through your trellis, why on earth are these pyrocantha not planted on their side??

If you cannot face a confrontation with the neighbours, go through the gardener (who will be very compliant, I imagine, now he realises he is in the wrong). Get him to uproot and dump back next door.

I’d have ripped them out by now and slung them in their garden too!

If they are effing pyrocantha, no way would I be uprooting them myself. Those thorns are vicious

Yes, I would rip them out, you can simply wear gloves to do so. Simples.

Gardener would be told to remove plants, return them to neighbours, and to find a new client. There is no way I could continue to employ someone who did this. He's an idiot. And I'd be having words with the neighbours and they'd be aggressive without any passive.

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They should have asked. Very odd.

I understand that they would want their garden screened off, but they can plant them on their side.

Pyracantha is not that bad, it has lovely blossom and berries for the birds later, in defence of the plant.

They should have planted it on their side though.

Apparently there is a large root on their side of the trellis which would make it hard for planting.

The gardener needs to un-plant them and charge the neighbours for this.

You need to stand firm with the neighbours. It's your garden, you choose what you plant in it. If that causes a conflict with them, that's their choice not yours.

Well they can get their gardener, who will no longer be your gardener and therefore have more time available to them, to dig up the large root so they can shove their plants where necessary.

How lovely to share a gardener!

You don't need to be aggressive as if you are conflict averse that could cause stress.

What I would suggest is to talk to the neighbour and say thank you for the plants but please could you have asked me beforehand about what variety you would like me to have?

As although pyracantha is beautiful in the autumn and provides luscious berries for the birds in the winter, they are rather thorny and I would have preferred [quince, blackcurrant insert choice here].

Hard but perhaps not impossibleZ the neighbours will need to weigh up what they want more. Trees on their side or things go back to how they were.

They are good shrubs for birds, so if you have a better place in mind ask your gardener to move them there. If not, I would ask if any friends would like them and give them away.
Last resort, tell gardener to give them back to neighbour. And when he had finished playing musical shrubs, I'd be wanting all the climbing plants in that trellis nicely pruned back. My garden, my rools innit