Would this tree in my neighbour’s garden put you off viewing my house?

[FamilyOfAliens]

It’s in the garden of the neighbour at the back, not in my garden, but because it’s so huge it does cast shade in my garden for 1-2 hours a day.

I’ve estimated it’s about 50ft high.

I’ve spoken to the neighbour who is lovely, but not in a position to have it reduced. It’s been there since we moved here 15 years ago, but obviously it’s got way taller and it just keeps growing. It doesn't affect anything although nothing much grows at that end of the garden. It does gives us some privacy as the neighbour’s children have a tree house which would otherwise overlook our garden.

You’re a braver man than me @SistersOfPercy . That’s about the size of hedge that we had between us and our neighbours and it was a huge job. I can only assume that you are farmers or Australian .

What did you do with all waste? Did you hire an industrial sized shredder and a stump grinder ?

We have burned the wood in our stove and used the chips on the paths but there was a LOT of waste, enough to fill a pick up truck.

We had a massive tree like that just on the other side of the fence. It had a TPO and bats living in it.

Our house sold within 4 days... So perhaps it has something to do with location and the market where you are? Our house was nothing special, just an ex-council 3 bed terrace.

I've just come out into the garden to enjoy a cup of tea in the shade cast by one of our neighbour's leylandii. They are big, ugly beasts but I do enjoy having some shade in one part of the garden. I also like the fact that it blocks their upstairs windows from looking completely into our sitting room.
I don't like pigeons either but I still enjoy watching the two pigeons who have nested in there flying in & out.

Neither Aussie or Farmers haha

Consisted of a rather brave batshit neighbour with an affinity for chainsaws. We had a long ladder and just systematically took the branches slowly lowering it. Only slight panic was when one didn't come the way we were pulling with the rope and missed the old guy on the other sides greenhouse by about a foot. That was a moment.

Neighbour has a wood burner so a very large portion was chopped and put into his store. Took a few logs ourselves for a stumpery in our wildlife garden (currently full of newts so it went down well) and the rest shredded.

A fun weekend was had by all. Probably not the health and safety way of achieving this though 😂

Yup defo batshit

Next time you need to make a pulley system with the rope and loop it over the branch above the one you are cutting. So you don’t pull it when it’s cut almost through, you cut it completely then lower it to the ground.

Was a case of cut small and throw M0RVEN, definitely won't be a next time though, our other trees are nice and normal and will remain so.

That said, I seem to spend half my gardening time pulling up bloody ash trees.

Funnily enough, we just bought a property which is otherwise beautiful except for the very bare, open and overlooked garden. Apparently, the owners have chopped down all the lovely oaks that provided shade and shelter. God knows what went through their minds. If the trees were still there, we would have been overjoyed. We are now thinking of planting some fast growing trees/hedges to provide privacy again.

YY to the ash seedlings. Sadly our big ash trees all have ash dieback but we still have seedlings EVERYWHERE.

Ironfloor, please don't plant leylandii unless you can cut them once or twice a year like a privet hedge. Hornbeam is pretty fast growing, nice to look at but not evergreen.

@longwayoff - thanks for the suggestion. Will consider hornbeam. We are actually complete novices to gardening so don't know what's good and what's not so good. Also added mixed wildlife hedge to the list as advised by someone up thread.

It'd put me off too, I love trees but that one is just ugly and it's not as if it's giving any privacy as you can still see the houses behind.

When we last moved we had to decide between two houses and chose this one because the other had a row of conifers that were already very big

Mixed wildlife hedge sounds perfect. Enjoy.

Yes.

I would pay the £1000 myself if I was trying to sell.

Hornbeam and beech look very similar. Beech needs good draining, hornbeam can cope with wet soil.

Although they are not evergreen, the brown leaves stay on the hedge until the new green leaves come in the spring. So they don’t look bare all winter.