Am I being unreasonable to think that I have one of the cheekiest garden obsessed neighbours?

[InkySkink]

Our next door neighbour is a little... tense about how tidy the garden is. When we first moved in he waited until we were out for the day, to sneak around and cut our shared hedge. We came back with guests, to find leaves scattered everywhere.

Since then this has been ongoing every year.

He suddenly decides that they MUST be cut. Immediately. That day.

He just knocked on the door and asked me to MOVE MY CAR so he could do our side.

To be fair I may be a little upset that he woke the baby.

Tell him to do one, and to stop coming onto your property to cut your side of the hedge. And if he wont, then take the leaves and dump them in his garden/wheelie bin.

Or be less aggressive/passive aggressive and have a chat with him about his weird hedge obsessiveness.

I'd tell him to piss off, and why.

Wish my neighbour would come and do my garden!

On the one hand it is nice that he does your hedge for you, but a bit irritating that he leaves the mess for you to clear up. But for waking a sleeping baby he deserves the most painful of punishments.

To be honest I've generally just left him to get on with it. It seems to make him happy, but asking me to move the car is a new one.

Plus DH cut it about three weeks ago.

Maybe he thinks he's doing you a good deed and doesn't realise he's intruding?
Personally I'd give my neighbour a key, tea and biscuits if he'd come and trim my bush tidy the hedges!

I wish my neighbour would trim my hedge too.....but YADNBU.

Mwahahaha MyShoofly is it in need of a trim

He does even clear up most of the time.
Not sure what I did that's aggressive/passive aggressive though.

I'm happy to leave him to it to be honest, though now I'm hiding talking to you lot 'cause i'm shy.

I'd say he could cut the hedge providing a) he asked first each time and b) he cleared up properly afterwards.
And he could mow the lawn while he was at it.

Oh no, I wasn't sating you were being PA, I was just saying that you could be if you wanted. If that makes sense? It was more a suggestion of what I would do if I wanted to be PA.

I think I would be fine with some warning.

I have also seen him in the garden trimming his topiary with what appeared to be nail scissors.

Why not tell him that he can do it provided he clears up after himself.

My neighbour was telling me how lovely she thought our Peonies are. She lives down the road & said flowers are in the not overlooked back garden.
Wasn't sure what to say..

My neighbour does the whole cul-de-sac's hedging! He does a fantastic job, and makes us all look like we are house proud when perhaps some of us are less so (us). Frankly, he has probably improved house prices!