To think that cherry blossom is not offensive?

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We're moving soon and the house has a blank garden- just grass.

In addition to several other things, I'm planning on putting in two, dwarf cherry trees. They will be at the bottom, well away from other houses and won't grow big enough for their roots to be a problem for any buildings or block light to any windows.

I mentioned this to a friend and she thinks that falling cherry blossom will antagonise the neighbours.

Do people really get offended by a few flower petals on their lawns? Really?

As your neighbour, I would be delighted, but people are weird!

There will be people who agree with your friend but I personally think they would be lovely.

I think it looks lovely, and it never lasts long.

I think they are lovely and I like the falling blossom, but that's just me. We had one at our last house and it used to drive the neighbour insane when he had just mowed the lawn etc. and then the merest hint of a breeze would cover his garden in petals.

Tbh would far rather cherry blossom petals than apples!

I love it too! If it's well away from peoples houses I don't see it being a problem.

Anything that encroaches on someone else’s space has the ability to piss people off.

Someone planting a tree that made my garden a mess would be a pain in the arse. I wouldn’t say anything (because as you say, it’s just a few flower petals) but it’d make me grumble that it was making my garden look untidy.

I love cherry blossom, they're beautiful.

But... i remember this little gem from a few months ago. Some people get pretty passionate about it (note the big 'no parking' written on their parking area 😂)

Our garden is surrounded by cherry trees, but none in our garden. I love watching the blossom blow around like snow. We get loads of the blossom in our garden, but then it just disappears, I can't see how anyone could be bothered by cherry blossom.

I'd love it. My neighbour has a summer oak near our boundary. At the moment walking close by comes with the risk of acorns falling on our heads. Acorns hurt! Blossem doesn't and is beautiful.

I live cherry blossom. I'd be delighted if my neighbours planted them in their gardens

It's not a matter of being offensive. But rather a nuisance.

In any case, I can't see it being a bigger problem than petals or fluff from other trees. At some point, there would be no trees, because petals or leaves.

Just plant what you like, just as long as the roots won't cause problems, and branches won't encroach on the neighbour's garden.

I planted a cherry tree in my garden after I lost our second baby. Our neighbours love it, it hangs over their fence a little but we said they can have all the cherries that hang over and they were happy with that.

I was confused.

A bit of blossom really isn't a big deal for most people. I'd be fine with it.

My neighbour has a tree which sheds blossom into our garden in spring, hundreds of little crab-apples in the late summer, and then leaves in the winter. It would never in a million years occur to me to complain! I mean, that's just what trees do?!

Cherry blossom doesn't last for long, anyway. It falls for a few days and then it's all washed/rotted away in a few days more. I don't think it's a nuisance at all and it looks beautiful when it's on the tree.

I love cherry blossom, there’s a huge one near us, makes a right mess but still love it !

It’s not the blossom that’s an issue around here, it’s the pink birdshit on the cars and garden furniture from the massive flicks of birds attracted by the ripe cherries. But only for a couple of days as the birds descend like locusts and strip the entire harvest in a matter of minutes.

That would be flocks of birds, of course, not flicks....

Cherry Blossoms yes. Sycamore NO.

Beautiful idea, plant away. Your friend sounds a little on the picky side, who on earth minds blossom petals?!

I was confused.

Well, I thought it was a new insult. Like "snowflake".

Disclaimer: I didn't mean that cherry blossom leaves were a nuisance. Just that rather than being offensive, if anything they could be considered a nuisance by the neighbours, if they were really precious about their garden.

Op where are you getting yours from please? I'd like to do the same but I have no gardening prowess whatsoever.

I love cherry blossom! I'm sure there are plenty of people who hate it, but really, the petals are only there for a very short while before they all disappear. I'd find it hard to get too worked up about it. I have one in my garden. My next door neighbour has an artificial lawn and is always out hoovering up the petals on his lawn. Can tell he's not impressed with it but he's never directly said anything about it.

Cherry blossoms are beautiful-short lived, usually (flowering time I mean) but so beautiful. As a PP said, sycamores are a real pest, and send their seeds EVERYWHERE! They should be on a banned list(and we have two of them on our boundary-not planted by us, and in no danger of falling, worse luck!)