To leave a stroppy note on this car?

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

People keep parking on the grass verge outside my house. It forms part of my garden but there is no kerb. Earlier this year I filled the craters left on it and re-seeded. I put large white rocks along the edge, about 10 inches from the road, so they can clearly be seen.

I've now got great big holes again where 2 visiting 4 x 4 vehicles have RUN OVER the rocks and mashed them into the ground.

Yesterday I left a note asking this person not to park there. Cue much shouting, swearing and grumbling to the neighbour they were visiting.

If you see white rocks on a grass verge, do you think, oh I'll just park on it anyway? What else can I do? It's just so fucking RUDE

Something like this?

www.amazon.co.uk/GreenaTM-Stone-Effect-Lawn-Edging/dp/B00PW7N5XU/ref=sr_1_24?s=outdoors&ie=UTF8&qid=1417264656&sr=1-24&keywords=stones

Wickes also has different stones, usually people should avoid if you make a border. Of not I suggest, Holly, poison Ivy and brambles. Or just some bricks lines up neatly maybe with a shrub or plant pot at each end. Makes it clear it's a garden not a verge.

Plant a border of flowers and shrubs: it doesn't need to be a hedge boundary as such, just more obviously garden than footpath.

The Kenyan system of stopping traffic would be ideal - lump of metal with nails sticking up - but sadly I don't think you'd get away with it

Maybe this to add the effect (sure you can find cheaper)

www.amazon.co.uk/Solid-Brass-Large-Garden-Spikes/dp/B006SZ4F98/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1417264856&sr=8-4&keywords=no+parking+garden

Oh yes! A border of winter pansies. Very cheap, bright and people do tend not to park on flowers.

Garden centres are full of them at the moment. A nice long line of them may well do the trick for about a tenner

A small tree at either corner? Would make it fairly difficult to ignore the fact that it's your garden.

It's a shame you're not allowed to clamp them anymore. Perhaps a large boulder from somewhere?

If this person parks on rocks, I'm willing to bet flowers won't be an issue.

A large sin which says 'PRIVATE land - NO PARKING' should do the job.

That's so rude. I'd be cross too.

I don't think flowers are a good idea as they wouldn't be seen easily in the dark and then you'd have crushed flowers too.

A hedge or bushes I s a good idea though. I have a few enormous hebes in my garden to discourage people.

Yes some good ideas here, thanks all. I've posted on Freecycle and been offered broken slabs, but I don't think that's quite the thing. Maybe a combination of rocks and plants? I think I need very hard rock. The ones I put out have just been crushed.

The ground is actually your?

Where I live some houses have their front garden, then pavement, then a grass verge. Now the verge actually belongs to the council but many people have taken it upon themselves to plant tress and flowers to stop the verge being ruined.

Either that or penguin bollards.

What about something like this?

Big plant pots interspersed with rocks might work. Big heavy plant pots can be expensive though, maybe freecycle, local ads or auctions, or maybe a garden centre may have some with slight damage that you could get cheaper?

OP, I wouldn't park on a well-kept verge either - but legally speaking, those vehicles are probably entitled to be there, which is why the council won't do anything: if it wasn't fenced when you moved in, it's almost certainly not yours. You'd need to look at your deeds and at the council's maps to be sure. Roads ('the highway') are split (iirc) into carriageway, footway and verge.

I'd bung in a couple of shrubs and hope, in your shoes.

That is rude wtf is wrong with some people

but legally speaking, those vehicles are probably entitled to be there

I don't think so - to quote the OP It forms part of my garden but there is no kerb. It sounds like it is the OP's private property. Therefore anyone wanting to park on it can fuck the fuck off.

I live fairly rurally and lots of house have the same kind of garden/no kerb you describe. Many people seem to use the solution suggested by a pp, use buckets as a mould for concrete then paint the concrete blocks white and arrange them along the edge of your property.

I would smash up some wine bottles and cans and see if they'd like to park all over that......but then I'm a bit hormonal.

I would also probably be lying in wait for the buggers

Plant some rosemary or lavender bushes - they grown relatively fast and easy to maintain.

Put out a load of gnomes, scare them away

Erm... If I saw a car parked there I would go and plant broken bottles around it. Not criminal damage as the car would only be hurt when the driver drove off the garden? Maybe not though....

Ha ha loving the pics fair and knackered

I've been out rock-hunting, come back and the white stones I carefully replaced yesterday have been run over again. Fuckers

How about pretty planters made of patio slabs

www.bystephanielynn.com/2013/04/how-to-make-patio-paver-planters.html