Neighbour trimmed my bush

[Colycola]

The next door neighbour whose drive sits to the side of my house has hacked back my lavender bush that may have draped itself on his driveway but has in no way impeded on his parking.

He has then dumped said lavender bush trimmings on the grass verge directly outside my house.

I really don’t want an argument. Do I just ignore him and put him down as being a twat. He is really overly aggressive generally.

Well he's allowed to cut back anything over hanging onto his property and he's followed the letter of the law by returning the clippings to you 🤷‍♀️

Ignore it - he's not done anything wrong

I believe he's entitled to trim it back to the boundary line so its not on his property. Dumping the trimmings instead of just binning them was a bit twatty, but not really worth causing an issue over. Keep it trimmed back to your own garden the next time.

I can't see the problem, it was on his land.

This is 100% legal move on...

Trim your own bush so he doesn’t have to

He can cut anything overhanging his property and by law he is suppose to give you the cuttings. Technically he is acting within the law.

If he has only chopped the bits that overhang his property, then that's fair enough. Although I think he's responsible for disposing of the trimmings. But don't quote me on that.

Law says to hand back/ leave trimmings he's played it to the letter of the law

I read your title and thought, well I know the beauty salons are closed but asking your neighbour to trim your bush is a bit much 😮
On a serious note, although it may not be impacting on his parking, lavender is quite woody and may have scratched his paintwork?
I would ignore it, but keep it trimmed back in future.
It's not worth souring relations with your neighbour for.

If he'd thrown away the trimmings some people in here would have complained about that too. I believe that you legal have to give them trimmings back as a PP said

Looks like I was wrong on that

He can cut back what's on the boundary, doesn't matter if it affects his parking or not.

He is technically supposed to offer you the cuttings back not just dump them for you.

He has to offer the trimming back. Just leaving them could be regarded as fly tipping

He probably thought you would have liked the lavender for something

He may be a twat generally which seems to have influenced your opinion. This example is perfectly normal. I always cut back quite far, if you are doing it you may as well go all the way!

Sounds like he stuck tightly to the recommended etiquette for trimming his neighbour’s bush.

I took a pic of the trimmings earlier. So it’s been dumped on the verge outside.

Attached pic!

They are allege dead heads anyway - I think he's done your bush a favour!

*all dead heads

They shouldn't just dump trimmings

I think him being a shouty prick has made his bush trimming feel like an act of violation.

Well, yeah he probably thought you'd want some of your own lavender that you'd grown back. Seeing as you let it grow into his property.

My only comment in the negative would be, lavender really needs to be pruned in late winter/early spring eg late Feb/March so long as it's not snowy, otherwise you risk damaging the lavender.

Tell him to cut it at the right time of year in future.

I like to trim my own lavender. It can kill it if you cut too much into the wood.

Am I the only one sniggering at the back?