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??

Fricking cheek!
Just keep an eye out that nothing nasty happens to your lavender - we have utterly vile neighbours who pulled out plants we had put in on the verge between our house and the road because "they don't like them". Nothing to do with them and they're to shield our house from the main road - but as we haven't caught them red-handed there's nothing we can do except fume.

That is hilarious!

Weirdos.

I want some lavender :(

OMG - if it's chippings though they will turn into a massive litter tray in no time and you will have the last laugh. At Christmas get a giant blow up Santa and turn the front of your house into a really vulgar light show. Take in the catalogues so she can order the same stuff to match.

Oh please please please use the rude gnome! Absolute genius! PSML

explain that slate really isn't modern, it is so last week. As she is into the retro look she won't object to your plans of the coolest retro look for the 2011 garden - an old rusty Cortina

WTF?! Your neighbour is bonkers and has awful taste.

i hope she isnt a MNer

I think you ought to get a collection of THESE very tasteful garden ornaments

oops! wrong linky, sorry

correct link

And still got it wrong, maybe something to do with a 3 year old mithering at me that he is hungary, naughty mummy [slap wrist]

www.greenfingers.com/superstore/category.asp?dept_id=200654 HERE WE GO]]

aaaaaaaaarrrrrrghh!!!! I will get it right

And they're half price! You can afford to buy twice as many!

Maud, my mother bought the Alexander MEerkat for a dotty friend recently. It was greeted with delight and given pride of place. (Mind you she is the kind of woman who buys notepaper with badgers on it).

Ooh where the pic ?

If they have some slate left over, maybe you could sprinkle it round your lavender plants.

Lavender and grey slate complement each other really prettily, and it'd help keep your weeds down.

Might save a falling out with your neighbour.

another vote for gnomes

::snurk:: at the kind of woman who buys notepaper with badgers on it.

How about a nice bit of formica? So easy to clean.....

Go for the gnome.

(Ranty, your child is Hungary? Now, that's coooool )

Hmmmm badgers

What age are the neighbours OP?

At the end of the day, when they moved in your garden was as it was, it is like they think the world revolves around them

In their 40s? The son is about 20. lazy scroat

I am intrigued now, did you see their furniture when it went in? Did they have a bookshelf? Did they have groundforce books? Maybe they had a fantasy from the late 1990's about slate and only now have had a garden they could slate!

In the back garden (think modern housing development, newbuild townhouses etc) they've had raised beds put in (by a landscaper) and she is planning on growing organic veg this year in the clay we are on

Dozey mare.

The clay won't matter potatoes break up clay, if she is putting in raised beds as they will have hopefully improved the fertile clay soil and then put in nice organic compost on top for the organic veg!

Is she a MNer? ::prays not:: The regulars in Gardening will soon put her straight.