To put weedkiller in a water pistol and nuke neighbours lillies?

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Obviously I won't. I just want to vent.

Next door neighbour is a gifted gardener. He grows monster lillies. Each plant is 7-8 feet high (it's above the fence). The plant nearest my house is right next to the fence and about 2 metres from my back door.

I can count over 20 budding flowers already in the bit above the fence. There are at least 6 of these plants..maybe more. So I would estimate that each plant must have up to 80 flower heads. That's 480 liliies.

Its hot and I need windows open but I'm sat wheezing and I've got a headache. I never have to take my inhaler apart from now.

My house stinks of them.

Can I nuke them? Please 🙏 😁

How long do they stay flowering? Many plants only flower a couple of months a year so it might be a case of waiting for a bit.

Please talk to your neighbour first. I love gardening, but would be upset if anything I grew affected the health of my neighbours, and would take steps to rectify it.

I have found this year particularly bad for hayfever though. DD is really struggling, and even I have been affected.

Stinky aggressively cheerful bastards. YANBU

🤣 I happen to love lilies but this made me laugh

I assure you I'm not. Yes, tree lillies. As I say, the man is an expert. Most people's won't be like his!

Our gardens are split level so he would only be able to move them to the opposite side next to the other neighbours fence as the rest of his isn't for flowers. But he already has several in pots in that side too. As I say, I can't see any request going down well. I will see how I cope.

It's only been the last couple of years. Last year i just put up with it but perhaps knowing it got to me last year is stressing me more this year.

I'll wait until the nearest evil triffid blooms and then try and talk to him. 😬

Please talk to your neighbour. He may remove the pollen if you explain the situation. And I would definitely ask if he can move them for next year.

@GrandmasCat they seem to go on and on. Perhaps he staggered his planting. I dunno. I'm no gardener.

How beautiful.

@JassyRadlett

I'll just have to suffer and try not to choke when he ask me if I've seen his beautiful displays

Ooh that’s your opener OP!
‘Sadly I haven’t, John, I’m terribly allergic to the lilies and they’re so close to the door that unfortunately I have to give my garden a wide berth when there out, such a pity as I’m sure they look lovely.’

Ha! Yes that's one approach. I'll give it some thought

@ChardonnaysPetDragon

They're seriously poisonus to cats too so y'know. I wouldn't be against this.

While I sympathise with OP about the smell, and lilies do smell strongly, I fail to see why someone shouldn't be planting something in their garden because it's poisonous for cats which they might not even have.

If you’re living in a residential area where people may have cats, and you plant something known to be deadly to them on the grounds that it’s not your cat and therefore you don’t care if you kill them, that makes you an arsehole in my book.

Those things stink.

I think YABU, it's his garden and he's clearly spent time cultivating them. You can do things to prevent them affecting you, it's his garden to do with as he pleases!

I plant them to keep away cats. But not tree Lilly's on the boundary of another garden.

If you’re living in a residential area where people may have cats, and you plant something known to be deadly to them on the grounds that it’s not your cat and therefore you don’t care if you kill them, that makes you an arsehole in my book.

I shall be planting whatever I bloody well will. If someone complains about smells that carry or hayfever that's exacerbated, then I will take that into consideration.

I will not avoid plants I like because they might be poisonous to cats, sorry. I don't have cats, if you want your cat to be safe keep it home. Letting your cat come to my garden to harass the birds and my dogs and to shit makes you an arsehole in my book.

Cats don't tend to eat plants. They will chew grass to make them bring up a fur ball, but leave plants, except for cat mint, alone.

These are normal lillies, grown by me a green assassin.
They are at least fifteen years old and have been brutally replanted several times.
I can imagine someone good at gardening could easy do triffids.
(I only have them as they were dear to my deceased Mum)

Cat for scale ofc.

Tree Lillies can
Nonsense. Each plant in that photo has about 10 flowers at most. Certainly not 80.

I will not avoid plants I like because they might be poisonous to cats, sorry. I don't have cats, if you want your cat to be safe keep it home.
I’m afraid I agree. There are many things in my garden that would be dangerous to a trespassing cat. Such as lilies, mousetraps, chemicals that I feed the plants with, and my dogs. Other people need to keep their animals off my property.

@ChardonnaysPetDragon

If you’re living in a residential area where people may have cats, and you plant something known to be deadly to them on the grounds that it’s not your cat and therefore you don’t care if you kill them, that makes you an arsehole in my book.

I shall be planting whatever I bloody well will. If someone complains about smells that carry or hayfever that's exacerbated, then I will take that into consideration.

I will not avoid plants I like because they might be poisonous to cats, sorry. I don't have cats, if you want your cat to be safe keep it home. Letting your cat come to my garden to harass the birds and my dogs and to shit makes you an arsehole in my book.

Do your dogs not chase the cat? That must be one badass cat if it can harass a group of dogs

@ChardonnaysPetDragon totally agree.

Have a word with him op he is unlikely to plant more out of spite

@ChardonnaysPetDragon

They're seriously poisonus to cats too so y'know. I wouldn't be against this.

While I sympathise with OP about the smell, and lilies do smell strongly, I fail to see why someone shouldn't be planting something in their garden because it's poisonous for cats which they might not even have.

Well, it is useful information that other people might not know about.

@TheQueef

These are normal lillies, grown by me a green assassin. They are at least fifteen years old and have been brutally replanted several times. I can imagine someone good at gardening could easy do triffids. (I only have them as they were dear to my deceased Mum)

Look lovely but please move them away from the catio, they are really toxic to cats.

If he asks if you've seen them maybe that is the point to gently say what is happening. He may be able to move them for next year, hopefully he offers

Are they too close @Whatamesssss?
I've put them all high in pots and cut the pollen out so ranging cats can't brush against, is it still dangerous?

@Pbbananabagel

I hate lillies. Stinky aggressively cheerful bastards. YANBU

Yep. Horrid things.

Lilies really do stink. And they spread like mad. It is probably less that he is a gifted gardener, and more that he has lost control of the bloody things.

Unless you are good friends I wouldn't say anything. But if you see him gardening in the autumn, ask if there's any chance he might be relocating the lilies as you're allergic to them? If he's a nice guy he will be chagrined and happy to move them. It is impossible to do it in summer, as the ground is too hard.