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?

People who get upset about cherry blossom must have very little else to get upset about.
I'd be happy with cherry blossom, it's very pretty.

I'd love cherry blossom and i also love to make cherry pie

Cherry trees blossom for only about 5 days a year and look beautiful - after that they produce cherries which land all over the lawn and paths and and rot and make squidgy marks all over the floor, they attract pigeons and other large bits which eat the cherries and then they get the shits and shit them out all over your washing and car, and then the cherry pips sprout all over the garden producing miniature cherry trees which are impossible to kill. They also have a very shallow root system which comes up in the lawn and they produce underground suckers. Get a lilac tree instead!.

I adore cherry blossom & don't mind the petals falling from my tree.

My neighbour has one as well, but he is completely & utterly obsessed with the mess the petals make, they drive him mad & he's forever sweeping up. It amuses me more than it should because I can't abide the man.

We lived in a house where the neighbour had planted one at the bottom of their garden which backed on to us and another neighbour. It was really really annoying. It got big quickly and both our gardens were coated in it so it was a daily job of clearing it if we wanted to be able to go out and use our own gardens. The other neighbour was even more irate than us and started threatening all sorts when they refused to cut it down. It doesn't sound as though yours will be quite so inconsiderately planted and will be kept at bay, but still just letting you know people do find it annoying! Might not be the best way to make friends with your neighbours.

How big do they grow? Just estimate it’s eventual size and plant it where it’ll remain inside your own boundary.
Planting bloody great trees right up again the fence so that next door gets half of it is selfish and rude.
Cherry blossom petals blowing in the wind are perfectly fine, whether they’ll like it or not.

The cherry bird poo damages the paintwork on cars

They look lovely for a week but really boring for the remaining 51 weeks!. I get better visual value from my Rowan tree.

Check out the (recently) late, great Les Murray's poem 'Flowering Eucalypt in Autumn' for his thoughts on what might be grown in compost from Japanese plum blossom petals. I do not even need to reference Housman! Anyone who objects to cherry blossom needs to have their immediate vicinity concreted, preferably with their remains underneath. 😉

The world needs more trees, more leaf piles and less pristine gardens.

I wouldn't object to anything that's wildlife friendly.

However i have rabbits and cherry blossom are poisonous to them.

If there are wild rabbits in the area, there are better choices. Or if your neighbours have rabbits.

IceniSky
"The world needs more trees, more leaf piles and less pristine gardens."

But choose trees to suit the wildlife/environment that you live amongst.

Anyone who gets annoyed with falling cherry blossom petals needs their head examined.

This planet needs all the trees it can get.

my garden needs a LOT less of my neighbours bloody bamboo leaves

If 1mm of my cherry blossom tree encroaches on the airspace above my neighbour’s side of the fence it is snapped off immediately, so I presume they don’t like the blossom

I struggle to give a shit tbh, it’s on my property. You can’t please everyone.

In our previous house someone had planted a cherry blossom that had grown to be huge, it was getting into the house structure and we had it removed. The may be different varieties that grow at different rates.

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

Crikey if that were the case I'd have the resuscitation unit handy for when they cope with Autumn

@EllesBells123

both our gardens were coated in it so it was a daily job of clearing it if we wanted to be able to go out and use our own gardens

Why on earth would some fallen cherry blossom stop you using your garden?! Was it knee deep or something?!

Our neighbours have objected to ours, because their garden is fully decked and apparently the blossom stains it. But as the tree has been in our garden since long before they moved in (and indeed long before we moved in), then that's just tough.

Cherry trees are the worst for root ingress and they sucker every-bloody-where. Next door's tree roots shifted our patio slabs, which didn't surprise me as every insurance claim involving tree roots (that our company dealt with) were ALWAYS cherries (although other members of the Prunus family are bad for suckering roots, damn their eyes).

Second pp's suggestion of making sure cherry trees are well within your boundary and not right next to it. (And YY to avoiding sycamores, rotten weed trees that they are.)

I love cherry blossom, it's like nature's confetti!

Sycamores and ash.

There are 2 enormous ash trees next door and I am forever removing small ash trees. Pretty sure they weren't planted but were weeds themselves originally. They both have TPOs and I understand that but they drive me nuts. There is also a magnolia next door which is beautiful in bloom but the petal are huge and kill the grass if they settle and rot so they are a nuisance.

My neighbours on the other side complain about a beech tree in my garden. I do want to take it down but it doesn't make half the mess the ash and magnolia do.

They also have a very shallow root system which comes up in the lawn and they produce underground suckers

I have a cherry blossom, and it does desperately send up suckers for most of the growing season. In my case they're all right around the tree so we just keep cutting them back, but do choose your tree carefully.

We also have poplar suckers everywhere and they drive me insane. Don't ever plant poplars.

Crikey if that were the case I'd have the resuscitation unit handy for when they cope with Autumn C8 you made me choke on my tea !

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.

Same here!

We don't have cherry trees but are surrounded by them, and I consider them a delight. DOn't mind the blossom, and don't even mind that the birds sit in the trees and poo all over our car!

Ohh I love cherry blossom. My primary school was at the top of a long road lined by these beautiful trees and I adored walking under the falling blossom. I wish our garden was big enough for one. :)