Neighbour trimmed the tree that hangs over in to her garden......but

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She chucked all the bits she trimmed over in to my garden

Is this normal?

I don't mind her trimming it - trees grow - but I'm pissed off that she threw it all over in to my garden

It's a dick move. Someone did this to me once - he cut some branches and threw them onto my washing line, breaking it and tearing some of my clothes.

Absolutely the right thing to do legally but they should have asked/ told you that they were doing so.

It's allowed, and it means she is pissed off that you didn't trim it first. For the sake of good neighbourly relations I'd apologise and trim it myself in future.

It's not allowed. Please read the thread

Argh!

YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CHUCK TREE BRANCHES INTO YOUR NEIGHBOUR’S GARDEN WITHOUT THEIR PRIOR CONSENT

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Well I've learnt something today, I thought you were supposed to chuck them back. Personally I just dispose of them if I trimmed an overhanging neighbours folliage.
The suggestion of "offering" them back makes me imagine a medieval page at the door with trimmings on a cushion.

Petty and stupid behaviour. Not normal. The energy used to do that could have been used to just put it in a green bin.

This.

Perhaps you should stop your garden encroaching on to theirs.

Regardless, the OP has a choice. She can either dispose of the clippings and trim the tree herself next time, which is likely to lead to better relations with her neighbour.

Or she can get arsey about the clippings being thrown over the fence and either throw them back or have it out with the neighbour. Which will lead to a shitty relationship with her neighbour and is likely to cause an ongoing passive-agressive game of tit-for-tat.

I know which I'd prefer, regardless of whether the neighbour has done the right thing in throwing the clippings over.

The tree is right on the boundary and was there b fire r house was built - trees grow

Also, some people just don't like trees so it doesn't mean op has done anything wrong.

E.g. if a tree drops leaves on fake grass and the neighbour is fed up of hoovering. Or the tree has living things in it which annoy the neighbour.

My neighbour whatsapped me to say she was trimming (mutilating) her bay tree including the bits that hung over into mine, and did i want some. Cue a new jar of bay leaves once I'd dried them out. But we get on. Luckily nothing overhangs her fence from our side, but I'd be fine if she chucked bits over.

We did say to the other side that our rosebush is out of control and if he wanted to clip and chuck over that was fine, he said he didn't care, and I guess he gets free roses as he's done nothing about it.

It's all communication really.

I disagree @TarantinoIsAMisogynist . In my experience if you give CFs like this an inch they take a mile.

I’d be making the neighbour dispose of them.

If a neighbour complained to me about a tree I’d sort it but petty behaviour like this is not going to make me cooperative.

Trees do grow. And it is the responsibility of the landowner to maintain/trim them as necessary.

Your neighbour is obviously pissed off about the lack of trimming, the question is whether you want a war with your neighbour about this.

She is legally allowed to trim anything overhanging her garden but must return all cuttings to you.

But it would have been polite for her to let you know rather than just chucking it over.

She shouldn't be throwing them back, but I can appreciate her point of view. It'd be great if people kept their foliage trimmed, so that it doesn't encroach onto their neighbours side, blocking light, etc.

My ndn has just done this, I think it's petty but not worth a fallout.

My neighbour had someone (or did it himself) cutting his plants/bushes and as they were cutting, they didn't try to control where the cutting fell and it was going over the fence into my garden and landing on my rose bushes. I tried to go round and tell them, but no one answered the door and the gate was locked, so I chucked them back over the fence, whilst he was still cutting. I didn't have anymore fall inmy garden after that. I think he was in the wrong there.

There seems to be a common misconception (on MN at least) that trimmings must be returned to the plant's owner, so she may have thought she was doing the right thing (though tossing them over feels like an awkward way to go about it).

I think I'd just dispose of them myself. I'd rather do that than have a discussion, tbh, and it's unlikely to become a frequent problem. It might be worth discussing if there's some reason that disposing of them yourself is difficult.

I will mention she's never once spoken to me about the tree. I just got home and found the chopped branches chucked into my garden

I do trim it but obviously she wanted lots more off it. It doesn't stop any sunlight etc - her garden is n the sun most of the day

She offered them you. You don’t want them - throw them back.

It’s not only normal, it’s a legal requirement.

@BucketBouquet from what I've read here it's not legally right

This thread is a good example of how very confidently wrong people are happy to be

RTFT ffs she can get them but if they're not wanted then must dispose of them herself, chucking them back without permission is fly tipping.