to plant WTF I like in MY garden

[OnlyWantsOne]

I live in a semi - no fence between next door and mine as we live on the pavement as it were, there is a small flower bed out the front - my 1/2 is lavender, the whole lot, established lovely lavender

boring, low maintenance, perfect

my neighbours who have recently moved in have pulled up all their plants and put grey slate (fine)

then comes a knock at the door, was I thinking of "matching" their front bed,

well, no I say.... I like my lavender

Oh, she says... they are dissapointed apparently, as slate is so much "fresher and modern"

WTF?

I silently screamed in my head and wanted to tell her to piss off... AIBU to keep my lavender??

YANBU, you had the lavender there when they bought the house.

I could do real poo and vomit

that'd fuck em up

I completely agree with MadamDeathstare.

I will also add that Lavender bushes and similar are vital for bees. You may even be helping the economy, should you live near any professional bee-keeping facilities.

Get some leaflets about bees being endangered, and the precise ways that could affect us. And shove them through the morons' door!

Please tell her that what one plants in a garden should not be dictated by empty-headed fashion. "Modern"... Pshaw.

There are plenty of circumstances in which I might consider grey slate- "it's modern" is not one of them

I wonder if they're going to start splashing their slate with glade to make it even 'fresher'!

I used to live in a cul de sac which had entered Ilfracombe in Bloom (HUGELY competitive, you wouldn't believe) and recieved commendations for the floral displays.

When I moved in they demanded asked that I join in, and put up hangings baskets and artful displays of lobelia and busy lizzies. I refused (I had grown up with a gran who made hanging baskets, I used to have to help plant and water, as soon as I left home I vowed never to plant anything again).

Anyway I came home from work one day to find the whole of my front of the house covered in pots full of geraniums and other assorted flowers, with two wellington boots full of trailing flowers on my front step.

I kicked it all next door, next day it was pushed back. They had found out it was judging day and decorated the front of my house for me.

I loathed it. My neighbours hated me and I hated them. Bastard flowers.

Thank god I now live in a city where nobody forces garden flowers on me.

A pity you didn't get straight back with 'oh, I thought slate was a bit Ground Force and passe ... its all about green gardening with native plants now, you know'

Hopefully they will realise the error of their ways when your lavender is fragrant this summer.

I assumed you were a shotgun-weilding farmer, GetOrf - does you name just refer back to a spat over a front garden?

Sorry but I nearly pissed myself reading this! I thought mine were bad for moaning that I have herbs and weeds rather than flowers in my window box!

lol - no I couldn't be firthr from being a farmer! I am just called that because I am from Devon and it seemed an appropriate name for a yokel.

Is it slate tiles....you can look forward to watching them all going arse over tit every time there is frost or rain...

If its the gravel type.. the foxes will love using it as a litter tray

Lavender sounds much nicer to me.

some more bad gnomes

Coyld you paint the slate one dark night.
A nice lavender shade maybe?

this sounds exactly like my house. my Ex neighbours put a border of bamboo round their half of the bed and asked me to pay for half the bamboo because they were going to do my side aswell to make it look complete. i refused.

i shall photo tomorrow when theyre out...

Oh keep the lavendar, it is so much nicer than slate.

Getorfmoiland-I would love it if neighbours gave me free plants, how thoughtful!!! Sounds like a British type of desperate housewives scene.

my mum has just had the same (although it was gravel not slate) the thing is the neighbour has been there for 20 odd years my mum 40 now and she must realise my mum adores her garden it's the only thing she spends time on since my dad died. Whatever made her think mum would agree with her ??

getoefmyland - omg the cheek!!!

So they are building stonehenge in slate in front of their house and it stays there? Jeez, anything in front of our house that doesn't weigh several tonnes or isn't tied down with nails driven into the living concrete isn't there the morning after you put it in!
I vote gnome..... and seed bombs

Tell them it's a garden not a quarry.

Then get a beehive and a worm composter for the front garden.

Offer them some pots of herbs
just make sure its Rue
(smells like many of the unmentionables above but looks pretty }-'0

Slate has been done by everybody. Boring! They should have used a mulch of Mini-Babybels.

Not as boring as all lavender though.

you have to admire her "chutzpah" though for coming to your door and asking.... silly moo. Keep the lavender. I lost the lavender bushes i had so carefully nurtured from seedlings last year to the frost and was heartbroken cos they were gorgeous and the smell was amazing....