To be so sad neighbours cut down a Pear Tree

[danny735]

Just that really.

There was a beautiful pear tree right on the border of our garden. I returned from a trip and the neighbours had chopped it down.

It was on neighbours side of the fence but half of the foliage was in our garden. I love nature and adore tree silhouette.

We've only lived in this house for 2 years and the pears were blooming when we moved in. There are usually beautiful blossoms in spring time. I'm so devastated that it's gone - I can't work out if I'm being silly I not 🥺

Have you spoken to the neighbours? It’s a bit suspicious that they did this while you were away, however it could have been diseased? I’ve come to realise that you can’t rely on others to give you what you want. Why don’t you just plant another pear tree on your side?

I feel your pain OP.

My neighbours, who are lovely I might add, have systematically cut down every tree in their garden since moving in 2 years ago.

They had three huge conifers that were monster and needed to come down, but it means we are now partially overlooked by the house behind us.

It's worse for my neighbours who are now completely overlooked!

This would really upset me too. I hate trees being cut down

Of course you’re not being silly. My neighbours 2 doors down also chopped down a mature pear tree when they moved in, that produced masses of fruit every year, to put a hot tub deck with pergola in its place. They’re perfectly nice people but I can’t help but judge them, I’m afraid. But it was their tree, after all.

Plant a new tree in your garden!

That’s a disgrace and you’re not being silly. They’re philistines. You can’t easily replace mature trees like that. They take decades.

I know someone who chopped down a mature cherry blossom. Heartbreaking.

It could be diseased or they are fed up picking up windfalls, we have an apple tree we really dont want but am loathe to cut it down, the neighbours hate it.

YANBU. Even if the removal was 100% understandable for example disease or another danger.

If he sad at it removal.

Yanbu I have a pear tree in my garden and wouldn’t cut it down, it’s their garden but I think I would feel sad as well.

Very sad.

Growing up I'd spend many an hour playing or sitting under a lovely old pear tree in my childhood garden. Loved collecting up the fallen fruit which my mam would use in chutneys or pies and give bags of pears to friends and neighbours.

Aww I would feel sad too, but on the other hand it is their garden. I second the idea of planting your own tree 🌲

It's such a shame isn't it? We've had to chop down a few lovely mature trees as they were in places they shouldn't have been and were likely to damage foundations. Trying to salvage the last couple for now! Could it have been similar?

I appreciate your feelings 100%. Last weekend, our neighbours cut down their cherry blossom tree, which I loved watching throughout the year. For me, it was a special reminder of my sister, who is buried near a cherry blossom tree, and I remember seeing it in full bloom when we went to choose her burial plot. I felt quite emotional about it last weekend (also had Covid, which didn’t help).

I would feel exactly the same. Replanting is a good idea.

I'd feel sad too but that's what some people do.

I know someone who bought a lovely old house with the most AMAZING mature garden. Beautiful trees, gorgeous flowers etc . Had the whole lot ripped out to put in a 'modern' garden, astro turf grass etc.

I think it should be a crime! They also ripped out old original doors and put in modern ones. Some people just have money but no taste sadly.

Plant your own tree to replace it though.

@Lagarthatheviking

Have you spoken to the neighbours? It’s a bit suspicious that they did this while you were away, however it could have been diseased? I’ve come to realise that you can’t rely on others to give you what you want. Why don’t you just plant another pear tree on your side?

Why is it suspicious? It’s the neighbour’s tree in the neighbour’s garden and they can do what they want with it. It’s a pity, of course, but not really any of OPs business.

OP plant your own tree!

I’d be sad, but I’d also appreciate that it’s their tree and therefore none of my business. I’d definitely plant something lovely on my side, though!

We planted a half dozen pear trees ten years ago, they grow fast and produce a lot of fruit pretty quickly. Ours were dwarf specimens but some are 8 ft tall now (we are a bit neglectful and don’t prune them etc). They don’t need decades to look good. They’ve done much much better than our apple trees planted at the same time. Plant your own.

Yanbu, pear trees are beautiful, I would be very sad too.

Suggest you plant one in your side (away from fence so they don’t chop its branches in future).

I know it’s their tree and they can do as they please, but I massively judge people who do things like this. It’s such a shame.

I had friends who cut down a stunning healthy cherry tree because they were petrified the poo from the garden birds sitting in the branches would poison their children. Unreal.

You are being ridiculous. It could have been causing problems to their property? A tree near my house had to be removed because it was causing us problems.

I helped a relative look for a new house, they've moved in now and decimated the garden, including removing a lovely mature plum tree and all the borders.

I struggled to speak to him for months...

Plant your own, preferably not near the fence so they can't moan or hack at it. Dwarf bush pears are lovely. R.V Roger post them out!

I think you should ask them why, and if it was not for reasons of disease express your view.

Growing up we had two mature pear trees in the garden which were lovely but over time they did get diseased and have to be felled - one of them rotted from the inside out and was a real hazard by the time it was discovered. So YADNBU - it's always sad when trees are taken down - but it may have been because of something you didn't know about.

Totally get this. Nothing you can do but you have every right to feel sad. As PP suggested, perhaps you could plant something specific, a pear tree or something else.

@balalake

I think you should ask them why, and if it was not for reasons of disease express your view.

The tree is gone while I'd be sad souring neighbourly relations may not help anyone.