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.

Cars don't take light, water, views and nutrients from the land around them.

Doesn't matter.

Annoyance is annoyance.

Criminal damage is criminal damage.

There is NO excuse

I thought the OP was tongue-in-cheek ...

Our neighbour(moved in three months after us) took down a beautiful old apple tree and planted leylandi, about three years after they moved in . . They grew to over 20 ft . His wife has (genuine and severe) mental health issues and 'didn't want to be overlooked' - irrelevant that, if I really wanted to ,I could still see into their garden from an upstairs room .. Bear in mind that at the time I had a ft job and two young children and really had no time to watch her, even if I were interested (you can tell it still rankles..) They are no gardeners (a few shrubs, no colour-my garden is lovely, even if I say it myself)and she never gardens or appears to sit in the garden ,as far as I know . We never complained as I did not want them to know it 'got' to me (a bit) .However after there had been a lot of fuss in the press about neighbour disputes involving leylandi hedges , about ten years ago, and recommendations they should be more than 6ft high, he had them taken down to 6ft . Bit of a shame as if he'd trimmed them to that height initially they would have been a better shape. I suspect they'd started to take light from their house as well as one side of our garden . Or maybe he thought we'd involve the council-he's also a bit of a worrier .
He has two more huge ones blocking the view of his shed from their lounge (they don't affect us) He has told my DH that he is going to have them trimmed-it will likely cost him a fortune as they are very high .
Sit it out for a bit is my advice . And if they do get above 6 ft try and talk to them and involve Council as per website posted above

One of our NDNs has them round 3 sides of garden. Never met them but we do speculate about what they get up to that needs that level of privacy.....

Leylandii are ugly horrible light sapping trees if they are planted in the wrong spot - they needs loads and loads of space so unless you have a huge garden it's the wrong spot.

The only way leylandii can be ok in normal gardens are if they are used as hedges and are well maintained. I've no idea why anyone would choose leylandii other than cost though. They are so many other nicer plants that are more attractive, more interesting and that provide more food and shelter to animals.

Leylandii are used because they are cheap to buy but if you factor in the cost of maintaining them i don't think they are a wise choice.

OP, how about offering the £500 to your nieghbour in return for him taking down the trees himself?

We had a similar problem, thankfully 69mph winds and a couple of foot plus of snow solved it nicely.

Front cover of the mail is pensioners getting an asbo for trimming a clematis on their side causing the whole thing to fall over. You could get a criminal record and be fined for this.

That seems very unfair feckless. A clematis is technically a weed.

Please send him around here after.

The ones behind us block a lot of light into our sitting room. They were 'trimmed' about 3 years ago and it was lovely, but they're enormous again. Fine for them as they're at the end of their long garden, but right on our house :(

Unfortunately they have a very high fence around their garden with no gaps to get saltwater or anything else through. I don't actually mind them being there and wouldn't really want to kill them, I d just like them trimmed regularly.

We've offered to 'go halves' with the cost of regular trimming or pay to have them removed, but they won't do either.

Your neighbour can do as he pleases in his garden. You can do as you please in yours.

Perhaps a ha-ha along your boundary? A nice deep one to deal with pesky roots? Or what about a little area of garden dedicated to salt-specialist plants?

Our neighbour planted several leylandii in his garden. Unfortunately they all became quickly infected with the fungal pathogen that is killing leylandii all over the place. He left the largest dead one standing for a while, then the wind blew it over onto his garden shed. Shame.

Oh my mistake. Aphid attack, not fungal. Still very easily spread.

Depends how you feel about criminal damage. And yes it is criminal damage.

That sounds like a very great shame Barbarian. So sad.....

I have a very big garden (half an acre) and live in the middle of nowhere and have loads of these trees along our border. They are there for a purpose which is to soak up excess water that was causing flooding and have worked brilliantly. No more lakes at the bottom of the garden/field.
However if I lived in a built up area and someone had them and they got too tall and my right of light was affected then I would be concerned.

I think its a great idea, no way could they link you to them falling over if it had been a windy night.

Don't know about hacking them down in the storm, but certainly when the roots and branches start coming onto your land I would certainly be spraying them with weed killer! My parents had a dispute with their neighbour over leylandi, as the neighbour had planted them right up against the back fence, and that fence ended up coming down with the damage they caused. Don't blame you for wanting rid!