Neighbours never cut their grass.

[Shootingstar1115]

When I say never, I mean never. It’s a jungle out there. They are busy working people, I understand it’s hard to keep on top. We aren’t keen gardeners ourselves but manage to cut the grass and keep it looking half presentable.

They don’t maintain their garden at all. It’s causing all sorts of plants and brambles to grow through the fence into our garden which we can trim to a certain extent but both my kids have scatched themselves and recently our dog had a nipple injury - large scratch/cut after coming in from the garden. Obviously we don’t know for sure it’s that but she often jumps up to the fence if she hears other dogs/people/cats nearby (not that she can see them 🤣) and it seems likely she injured herself that way.

My kids have also accidentally chucked balls over there but you can’t see them to find them so we’ve just left them in there for now 🤣

I feel like helping them out with it but it will be a large job and myself and Oh lack the time nor are we keen gardeners ourselves.

Would you be annoyed??

I’ve had moaning neighbours and it still annoys me lol.

I’m a working single parent who struggles to fit in work, a training course, children, house and garden. I have a large garden so not easy to keep on top of at times. I’ve got a few wild patches with quite a wide variety of wild flowers now and lots of nettles which means lots of butterflies but I try to keep on top of the grass as much as possible.

@oldraver I’m incredibly jealous of your poppies! Don’t cut them for anyone!

We get some amazing (I think wild) ones growing round here, I was just admiring some that have flowered through the cracks in a neighbours driveway. They’re just beautiful. The ones I planted just became snail and slug food

Cornetto. ..... ours are wild Orientel poppies that came free with some foil but we encourage them now each year. We get about 1.5 kg of seeds

They’re beautiful - I don’t see how anyone could have cause to moan about them!

I don't understand, are your kids and dogs hurling/rubbing themselves against the fence.

The poppies are gorgeous but your grass is clearly cut. It's also very obviously not rhe kind of thing the op is talking about.

I think it's fine to say I haven't got thr time, or I can't be arsed, or I can't. I take issue when clearly it's just an over grown mess like trixie posted and people pretend that's for rhe wildlife. It's clearly not. No one needs over grown brambles and over grown weeds for wildlife like that.

And lol storytell,,daisy watch😁

We own our home as do the people that live next door so no landlords. When I say it’s never been cut, I mean hardly ever. We’ve lived here for 6 years and then maybe 4 and I think it’s been cut once or twice and they. The top of their garden is a big mound of grass, plants, bushes all overgrown. But hey ho. Hopefully they will do it soon.

We are busy too. OH works long hours and I’m a SAHM to two little ones but we learnt that it’s best time to keep on top of it rather than leave it.

They also have 2 children so the kids can’t play in their garden it’s that bad.. I feel for them.

Haha how patronising. I am sure your NDN's would be quite capable of finding their own gardener to mow their lawn if the state of their garden bothered them OP.

Mine mow theirs to within in an inch of its life, even down to mud. It takes hours and pisses me right off. A happy balance is good.

Tho I did check in to see if the OP was my neighbour.

But it’s their garden, they own it, what am I missing as to how it’s any of your business? Trim your side and mind your own, you have no idea what their reasons are if any. They don’t even need to be too busy, maybe they don’t care, or maybe they’re too busy making millions trading online and will soon be living in a huge country house with a staff of gardeners, judging you for mowing your lawn instead of doing what they did.

OP you sound so patronising ‘we’ve learnt that it’s best to keep to keep on top of it’. Good for you. ‘We’re busy too’. You know nothing about their circumstances and it’s none of your business.

I’m pretty sure their children don’t mind a messy garden. You sound like a nightmare nosy neighbour.

Do you live next to me OP? We use 2 small ponies as lawnmowers since the actual lawnmower blew up in fairly spectacular fashion. It looks horrendous but we have some lovely little wildflowers.

Just because people keep their gardens tidy doesn't mean we don't like wildlife, I keep the grass short but the borders are filled with trees, shrubs, perennials etc and is full of wildlife.

My parents used to live next to a lazy arse who let the garden get overgrown and couldn't sell the house, they had viewers but everyone commented on the neighbour, in the end they explained and asked if he could tidy it up, luckily he did and they sold within 2 weeks.

I think mentioning that the brambles and weeds are growing through to your side of the fence and asking them politely if they can sort that is fair enough. The grass doesn't really impact you other than looking messy. Last year my neighbour asked us if we could cut the hedges more frequently. It was a couple of inches higher our side than hers, so not like it was blocking her light or anything, just wasn't squared off and aesthetically pleasing to her. DP gave her short shrift as he doesn't like being told what to do with his property and I was in a cast, so unable to cut it!

Mention about the overgrowing into your garden but beyond that it’s their garden, their business. We haven’t had a real chance to do any garden work this summer yet, and our driveway is quite weedy, but we both work and on the handful of nice days we’ve had so far we’ve had better things to do. I don’t like it but we just haven’t had time yet and I wouldn’t really appreciate someone hassling us over it.

Also some people are consciously letting their garden grow wild for their children to play in.

Blimey, she asked him to trim the hedge not told him. Is he normally so hot tempered.😱

We have thigh-high grass at the moment (we're all quite short ) and I really can't raise much of a fuck about it. As many other posters have suggested, we do indeed have other things going on in our lives. Plus the garden's full of toads and I don't want to massacre them by cutting it!

We will get around to mowing it eventually, and it'll look horrid for ages after we do it because it's so long, but honestly it's nobody's business but ours.

Are you my neighbor?

Seriously give me a break ... I am busy working. Leave me alone. Or cut it back yourself.

Not sure people get how bad this can be! I live next door to a HA with two elderly people who aren't capable of doing it, I don't blame them at all btw - it's been six years of battling with the HA about the brambles which have now torn down two fences and required another two repairs in between, at a cost to me of well over a grand. I'm constantly cutting off brambles coming through but it's just getting worse and worse, it's currently around two-three feet above the six foot dividing fence and the worst and potentially extremely costly thing is there is a wild growing mountain ash tree that has sprung up around two meters from the edge of my house. It's several meters tall already, I've had warnings about subsidence due to the crazy roots and have raised all this with the HA and nothing. This stuff can have a pretty serious effect on neighbours!

Maybe they're not too bothered about keeping it nice as whenever they sit out your dog barks at them and the kids balls come flying over 🤷🏻‍♀️

Also some people are consciously letting their garden grow wild for their children to play in.

because what child doesn't like to play in brambles...

@MorondelaFrontera 🤣🤣🤣

Why is your dog jumping the fence? It’s their garden so leave them to it but keep your dog out of their garden!

Their dog isn't jumping the fence,it's jumping up on their side ie its own garden.

I feel your pain OP. Judging by the snippy responses the British are not a nation of gardeners. Weeds and brambles are no respecter of fences, and underground roots are a real problem. First hand experience here.
Blitz any weeds that start growing in your garden and put a taller, solid fence on the boundary then you won't have to look at it.
Natural habitat my foot.

Bluntness - she's retired, we both work 60+hours a week. She's basically a lovely lady, but a little particular. She stands out and supervises (moans) when we do cut the hedge if so much as a leaf goes over her side as she's just 'swept her lawn'! It's fine when her cuttings come over our side though. To be fair our garden was a total mess when we bought it. After scything through the undergrowth, we had to skip 12 toilets and 12 washbasin planters and 500 gnomes of varying degrees of decay, anything has to be an improvement on that!