I get dh to pull down next doors lelandii when the gales hit

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I know Ibu but when the gales hit this week I'm so tempted to get dh to pull down next doors horrible trees that are taking away light, water, views and nutrients from my home and garden.

They are only 4 years old so quite thin and could still be snapped. If I leave it much longer they will be too hard for us to sabotage, easily.

It costs 500 just for the council to cosider talking to them :( they have pretty much told me to get lost with the whole "its my garden I can do what I like" selfish additute.

Your right to have the tress and their right to moan.

Suck it up.

Well I've had to install 2 CCTV cameras in case one of the fuckwhit neighbours do poison my trees. If they do I will sue.

So they haven't actually tried to poison your tree, you've just told yourself they might? Okay then.

They have threatened to.

What kind of idiot would use copper nails? That's very detectable!

I came here 13 years ago and planted a lot of native trees - some slow growing, some not. The idiotic tenant-before-me was the clueless twonk who planted a hundred foot long row of the Trees Of Death.

About 2 or 3 years after I moved in, I got a knackered (supposedly) silver birch sapling in Woolworths they were selling off for a quid because they forgot to water it. I took a punt, planted it and... a decade on it is BIGGER than the disgusting leylandii. So it is erroneous to think native trees don't grow so fast. I also once had a spectacular cherry tree from a cherry stone shat out by a bird in my border. The bark was so pretty I kept it, and I only lived there another 8 years but in that time, that tree got to about 12 foot or so...

The problem with leylandii is that they are not a habitat for anything. Only thing that has ever nested in them in my garden are pigeons. Nothing grows in their shade (plenty grow under a wild rose, or a hawthorn, or a silver birch). They also stink. (Whereas a spruce smells nice). And they are rubbish to burn - I've been burning these bastards the past two years now, and they are not even decent firewood even after two years' seasoning.

A good vigorous climber is honeysuckle. Rowan grows well and is pretty too - and copper beech. And all with give you a sizeable young tree within the same time frame a leylandii will grow to the point it blocks out all light. A dwarf apple will be fruiting within a year or two and after half a dozen years giving you more apples and apple blossom than you know what to do with. I'm just waiting for the council to come and remove the stumps. Then when they put a new fence up, I'm going to plant mixed native trees all along it.

The only reason to get a leylandii would be that it is evergreen and even then a holly, yew, small spruce tree, almost anything else would give you something prettier. If slower growing, mix in something that will shoot up like a cherry or silver birch.

Shocked at mn. Much as i hate lelandill this is someone elses tree on their property. Op how would you like you ndn poison your trees or break your trees. You could be in serious trouble!

In my case they were planted in my garden by a previous tenant, and I was stuck with them on my property. So I haven't (and never would) destroy a neighbour's trees but spent the last decade trying to find a way to destroy my own! (I simply couldn't afford a tree surgeon).

If I was OP, I'd be tempted to plant some more attractive trees my own side of the same boundary - at least she won't have to look at these ugly things, then.

The ones in my garden blocked out all light for me and my neighbour. My old neighbour knew the man who had planted them, and knew it wasn't me - and was OK about it but they ruin not only the neighbours' garden but your own, too if you have them - they block out the light for the idiot who has planted them. I always think a leylandii hedge is a sign of someone who is no gardener.

Exactly rach, criminal damage is not the answer

Some people in here are so clueless. In fact Leylandii are evil, spawn of the devil and you do not have the right to privacy to the extent of planting Satan's trees - there are in fact laws to get the evil fuckers chopped down, because only a cunt would knowingly plant them and then not keep them under control. It's covered under the ASBO legislation. www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/38/part/8

Fuck Leylandii.

Poison them, plus hack brutally at any bits overhanging your garden.

If you want to kill the trees then dig down your side of the fence and find a nice big, thick root or two.
Cut a wedge shape lengthways along the roots - like a 'V' shape and fill it with salt. I mean a few kilograms of salt! Water with a watering can so it's moist but not so much as to wash the salt away and leave for a while. Come back a few days later and repeat.

Give it a week or two and the tree will be looking decidedly ill and may even come down in the next gale of it's own accord.

You can't poisen roots on your own side legally, if you do and it falls down you could be liable for hundreds of thousands of pounds

hundreds of thousands of pounds my arse.

I have a leylandii hedge at the top of my garden. I have it cut back and the height reduced once a year. Not all leylandii owners are irresponsible shits.

I think many people here are ignorant to the plant, all of mine are golden and look quite beautiful, and I keep them all at 2.5 m to be legal

You need to be really careful you don't spill SPK brush killer (diluted according to the instructions) on the bark or near the root systems of those trees. Diesel also is highly toxic to tree roots but costlier and smellier if spilt. SPK will kill them within 12 months so you take care out there OP!

I have leylandii hedge. Planted because it was fast growing. It's a lovely hedge trimmed once a year up to the neighbours 6ft fence, not a bit over it. That would just be rude.

70ft worth of hedging right enough.

Yes, SPK, do one at a time so you can look innocent. There are lots of diseases affecting trees on the go at the minute. Do one a year.

We had Leylandii (planted by previous owner) at one house, we had to have them pulled out by a digger after the house suffered subsidence.

In the next house but one the leylandii hedge caused huge rows between prev owner and neighbor. The neighbor got engineer in to prove that the lelandii were interfering with his drains, The prev owner got an engineer in to prove that the leylandii were not interfering with his drains. This argument lasted a couple of years. The neighbor then died of a heart attack - no doubt the stress of legal battle didn't help.

Very, very salty water. At the roots.
'Nuff said.

I hope your neighbour damages your car if you park it somewhere that annoys him.It's the same principle as you killing his tree

But Leyland are so pretty, aren't they?

"I hope your neighbour damages your car if you park it somewhere that annoys him.It's same principle as you killing his tree"

But it's not, is it? Cars don't grow and block out light.

Or even leylandi, rather than Leyland bloody cars, which imo are pretty unattractive. ( Much like predictive text on my kindle.)

It is the same principle. It's a case of somebody finding something annoying and criminally damaging it.