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 🥺

Lots of defensive and/or proud tree murderers here.

@milkyaqua

Lots of defensive and/or proud tree murderers here.

I’ve never cut down a tree. My neighbours can cut down trees that belong to them if they like.

If op is so so invested in nature and trees she can balance things by throwing all her time and energy into making her own garden a miniature national park. Then she’ll be able to enjoy trees even closer to the thing. And her neighbours will also benefit because they can do what they like with their own garden and enjoy the view of someone else’s tree without any of the maintenance efforts.

I’ve never cut down a tree.

Then I wasn't talking about you.

So who are the defensive ‘tree murderers?’

It’s just ridiculous to assume you can judge people as defensive because someone says op has no right to storm over and demand an explanation from the neighbours and give them her ‘views’ if the reason isn’t good enough.

It’s insane. Honestly if you have this much time to worry about what other people are doing with their own garden you need to make yourself a bit busier.

If you have this much time to angrily chastise a poster for making a observation, then you also have time to read the thread...

The OP is sad. Not once has she suggested she's about to storm over. She said she is sad. "Just that really."

I was referring to another poster, who suggests that op should go over to question the neighbours, and ‘give her views’ if their reasoning isn’t good enough.

So possibly it is you that needs to reread the thread. Goodness me.

“Lots of defensive and/or proud tree murderers here.”

I think this perfectly encapsulates a previous poster that referenced hyperbolic nonsense.

@SockFluffInTheBath

Good grief, some of the hyperbolic nonsense on this thread 🙄 did we know trees are good for wildlife, some of us want to concrete everything, nature needs a home… my garden is in many ways a wildlife haven but I had the brass neck to take down a massive cherry at the end of last year- so I suppose that renders it all null and void. Some of you really need to stop looking so hard at what other people do on their patch and green up your own.

Lol we're allowed to talk on a chat forum you know. If your garden is as nice as you say, why do you care what others think?

It’s insane. Honestly if you have this much time to worry about what other people are doing with their own garden you need to make yourself a bit busier.

So much cooler and busier than Op, you don't even have time to look out your front window in the morning, sounds fun

I sympathise.

The landlord next door has ripped out the ten foot privet hedge on the far side boundary. So many birds nested there and I loved the scent of the blossom.

But more practically, another few houses down there's a busyish road and it was a great sound and view buffer. Now our house and garden feel a lot less private.

Trees in gardens, whilst looking lovely, can be a bloody nuisance and are not aways suitable for the space. They can wreak havoc with fences etc. and as they become more mature and their roots spread out.

I agree, it's sad, but there might be a good reason behind it.

Their tree, their choice!

Plant your own tree in your own garden if you miss it OP. Bit rich IMO, asking someone why they chopped a tree down in their own garden!!

I had an orchard in a previous house. When I downsized I planted two fruit trees that I am training on a wall, but, they get aphids every year, then there's the wasps. I often wish I hadn't planted them when I am dealing with the bugs and the wasps in the height of summer.

We've got a mature apple and mature pear tree in our garden. They're lovely and I love harvesting from them but the reality I need to face up to is both of them are becoming a massive liability. They're rotten in part and whilst we've got the apple propped up they're near our fence and the last thing I want is them going down and causing damage to our and our neighbors garden so at some point they will have to come down. I'm just delaying the inevitable.
We also had to take out an immature cherry recently because we are redesigning the garden and it was in the middle of my vegetable garden. For some that wouldn't be a good enough reason, but we have lots of trees, lots of bee friendly flowers etc - we can sacrifice a tree for growing more vegetables.

On the other side we had an elderly neighbour who loved trees and refused to have anything cut down. As a result we've got a big ash growing right on the boundary, causing problems with our foundations. We were about to make a compliant when she sadly died. So now we are waiting for the house to be sold etc and just hope they are reasonable people.

I love nature, care deeply for my garden and protect wildlife etc where I can but the reality is sometimes trees are just no longer suited to the environment they're in. I can't say if that's why your pear came down but it's often a decision that has to be made on a multitude of factors.

I've seen it happen so many times. New people move into a house with a beautiful mature garden and they rip the whole lot out to be replaced with something soulless and rubbish for wildlife. We had a beautiful garden in our last house with many trees. I'm so happy the people that bought it appreciate nature and have continued to preserve it.

This is sad, trees are beautiful. Although I know in my parents old house, they had a lovely, very old pear tree, it was all crooked and all the grandchildren had climbed it. The only problem was wasps, they loved those pears, the birds would peck them on the branches, then the wasps would move in.
Could you maybe put a tree on your side, to watch grow? Some nurseries do semi mature trees and will come and 'plant' them for you.

I’d feel the same too if it were a healthy tree. However reading some of the replies is making me paranoid that our neighbours think we’ve done this to the beautiful old cherry blossom that was in our front garden. It looked healthy and still blossomed but was completely rotten inside. The storm toppled it into the hedge so although it didn’t look like it had blown down, it was just balanced there so we had to get rid of it.

YANBU to be sad; trees are lovely things.

YABU to think you have any right to think what they do with their garden. Their garden, their tree, their right to remove it if they want.

Trees aren’t permanent, they have a life cycle. I murdered 3 trees when I moved into my house. All were unstable, 2 were rotten through the core and one was rocking badly and couldn’t be stabilised. My neighbour raged at me for destroying nature, but he would have been more pissed off if I’d left them as two would have fallen on his garage. I’ve planted new trees and have managed to save two others, but sometimes you have to get the tree surgeon in.

For all the posters who lament the loss of other people’s trees, pop along to a tree nursery and pay hundreds and hundreds for a semi mature tree and plant it in your own gardens?
Wait… you don’t have the space or money or inclination to budget to do this. Oh well…..

There’s a village near my work that’s very footballers wives territory, it features in books of prettiest villages in England etc and yes the high street is lovely but people constantly buy a mansion, demolish it, rip out the garden and put a modern glass monstrous house in with a pool and fake grass and grey decking. The amount of trees that must go is horrible. Can’t buy class!

YANBU but some people just don't like trees. We have a weeping willow tree in the corner of our back garden, it's fucking massive and spills over into three other gardens. The bloke directly behind me hates it, whinges like mad about it and has even tried to book tree surgeons to lop the entire top off when we were on holiday one year: they refused because it's not his tree and left us a note asking if we wanted it done could we get in touch. He's complained to the council about the tree, and they've asked if we will cut it back, we said no and they said fine.

If we cut that back, we are immediately overlooked and overlooking two properties, bedroom window to bedroom window. And since the bloke behind me has a pervy adult son who used to climb a ladder to try and watch me in my own garden, I'm not keen on removing the giant screen of leaves we have.

@Youcansaythatagainandagain

For all the posters who lament the loss of other people’s trees, pop along to a tree nursery and pay hundreds and hundreds for a semi mature tree and plant it in your own gardens? Wait… you don’t have the space or money or inclination to budget to do this. Oh well…..

It’s not actually that expensive. If I were @danny735 I’d be doing exactly that.

www.paramountplants.co.uk/plant/pptw/pleached-pear-tree-williams.html

A couple of weeks ago, someone came into Next Door to post about how upset they were with a neighbour who’d chopped down a magnolia tree. Cue hundreds of posts about how evil it is to remove trees and what appalling people they were to do this.

Presumably it was diseased but even if it wasn’t, it was their (small) garden that was being dominated by the tree.

YANBU to be sad about the lost of a lovely tree.

We had to have a mature cherry tree because it was very diseased. We spoke to all the neighbours to explain that the reason it was going was because it was highly likely to fall over in strong winds. They appreciated the notice and explanation.

@TheWildRumpyPumpus

Nothing riles up a MNer like a neighbour cutting down a tree.

God forbid they should actually have to plant one of their own!

I've already purchased a pear tree to replace the one that was chopped down.

Most of the leaves from the pear that was chopped down fell into my garden and were taken care of by me.

The tree was not rotten - they just preferred a bare garden. That's their right - but I'll be planting my new pear almost exactly where the old one stood - but on my side of the fence.