Our garden backs on to theirs so the bottom of both gardens share a back wall/ fence. At the bottom of theirs is lots of very mature shrubs and suchlike with a bit of ivy. We have spent a lot of time (4 years)and money and effort transforming our garden from the swamp that it was when we moved in (complete with reeds flooding bad smells and frogs) to a nice little place our ds (2) can play in. As a result most of the plants in our garden are not at all mature having grown them from seeds and cuttings or buying them young because we can't afford the big well established ones. Anyway they have sheared their hedges onto our flower beds without letting us know and crushed about £60 and two years worth of work with heavy branches. It's been teeming down here for the last few days so today is the first chance I've had to get out and do a bit out there and it looks like they've been sat on the plants for about two days so not only are they crushed but there are bits that have started to rot and turn yellow and a small army of slugs and snails have turned up. I'm gutted. It's not a small bed and it's taken us so long and so much effort to get it looking nice and get it safe and it's been destroyed. They could have given us a heads up that they were going to cut all their stuff down so we could have put something up to protect our delicate young plants as we are in touch with them but they haven't and now a big chunk of our garden is in tatters