AIBU? Garden boundary and Twatty NDN.

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Not sure if I'm actually BU or not so thought I'd check before confronting NDN.

I've planted a hedge between my neighbors front garden and mine. We rent the houses from the HA and when I moved in there were no boundaries just one long front garden. The housing officer told us it was up to us to put in fences/hedges.
There was a fence put there by last occupiers but it fell down just before NDN moved in.

I've planted some heding. At least twice now twatty NDN has done his twice yearly strimming of his dandelion patch and taken out the saplings. I can't afford to keep replacing them and I'm cross. I have planted some from cuttings that I took too but he strimmed them too.

The hedging is right on the boundary though. Is that unreasonable? It's a little more towards me so the stems are in "my" bit. I know he can cut it once it's mature but for now it's not in his garden.

Essentially, AIBU to but a hedge on a boundary?

this is how the nastiest of neighbour disputes nearly always starts. with something quite simple and straightforward where both sides have taken up a position and neither is prepared to discuss or compromise.

go and talk to your neighbour. nicely. explain why you would like a little hedge and that if he doesn't want one perhaps you could discuss alternatives and a way forward.

please do it now. before this escalates into something else - they always do, trust me, 20+ years experience as an EHO dealing with neighbour disputes.

No, I was offering (helpful?) input about boundary lines.

(Because you asked.)

"The hedge is shy of the boundary. I could still put a fence in but I can't afford one."

Your "hedge" is (by your own admission) currently "saplings". Mere "stems".

So "shy of the boundary" means that when it grows (even by a little) it will have encroached upon your neighbours garden, and when 'hedge height/depth' by feet.

Given that in your planting of the hedge you have not taken that into account and have shown no consideration for your neighbour, in his position (given that it is currently just saplings) I would be removing every inch of overgrowth as and when it occurred!

If the hedge survived that, it would be a very weird looking beast indeed, but he would be within his rights to do that.

Far better that you move your hedge now so that it is within your side of the boundary by a few feet (but at least 18 inches). If that means you have to get rid of your raised bed, so be it.

You are the one who is being unreasonable here.

Is it Leylandii, OP?