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 tree, not her bush 😂

It's really annoying that posters keep repeating the same wrong information, when the rules have been clarified earlier in the thread.

You must be new here. The really key thing is HAS THE OP CANCELLED THE CHEQUE YET ?!

I must be the only person with reasonable neighbours. They have love big shrubs on their side of the fence that they prune regularly. And every time they ring our bell and ask if we want them to come and tidy everything up that's fallen on our side. Personally I'm just happy that they let me know stuff may have dropped on to some of our plants. Our garden is a mess compared to theirs but I'd get cranky if they dropped stuff on one of my rose bushes.

Obviously not the same situation as the OP.

No. She has to offer them to the owner. The owner can decline.

I think it is tidy - she obviously disagrees

I think the law should be amended to say that clippings should be put in the tree owner's bin, not take up room in the poor neighbour's bin.

the next thread to appear will be.... my neighbour cut the overhanging branches of a tree.. and they disposed of the cuttings... is this theft!!

the mind boggles... the OP is simply pissed cos they have to clean up the mess! but if the tree has been kept tidy in the first place non of this would have happened

Deary me. If it’s their tree, yes you can

Me neither, I don't understand it. Mature plants are a massive plus.

Some people don't want nature coming onto their garden I guess 🙊

Gah. So many people getting this wrong. She must offer the cuttings to the OP but the OP can decline.

Then the neighbour is responsible for discarding them

I liked it as it was. It's a nice tree - I think it looks weird now. The way the sun goes it does shade her garden

It doesn't matter if it's legal or not and there's no need for 50 people to keep saying the same bloody thing. If it's your tree that's hanging over your neighbours garden the least you can do is get rid of the trimmings.

Give me strength.

Who would not be pissed if some entitled arse dumped a load of spiky branches into your boundary without asking you to take it? She didn't even ask op if she'd but the tree?!

@DaughterNo2 - according to this thread you're wrong

I have the same relationship with my neighbours too, but this is quite a passive aggressive (maybe just aggressive) move from the neighbour. I think the most I’d do is say ‘no need to give me the clippings back in future. As you know we trim professionally whenever we have council approval’ and see how that goes. I suspect they’ll continue though as it’s not really a good start from their perspective.

@User20056 lol... its the OP's rubbish. the OP should deal with it

I've had neighbours that used to do this when we used to have a tree in the back garden and it felt so passive aggressive (especially as they used to literally lob them over my fence and mess my garden up and we'd offered to go round and cut the tree regularly and they refused).
Now that same house has a tree that's very scruffy and overgrown and growing into our front garden - not doing anything about it right now as there are birds nesting in it (it's a 10ft magnolia) but we'll ensure we ask first before we cut our side and we're just going to dispose of the cuttings in our own bin.
Just seems a bit arsey to throw it back over.

I think it depends on whether they already have a garden waste bin? If not then I can understand their logic of why should they have to pay/dispose of garden waste that isn’t even there’s…if they already have a bin then it seems petty and a bit odd.

They neighbour is a prick, she never spoke to op. If she did, it would be a completely different scenario. You don't take it upon yourself to do this, however.

It doesn't matter if it's legal or not

An interesting point of view. I'll remember that next time I smack someone in the face.

I'd throw them back over the fence. She cut them, she can dispose of them.

Don't be so silly. The neighbour didn't dash the spikey branches at the OPs head.

@User20056 i get the impression from the OP's post and comments that a conversation about said tree was never going to happen, mybe the neighbour has mentioned on several occasions that the tree is taking away light, creating shade, or is downrigh ugly.

everyone getting their knickers in a twist over something which is generally what you are supposed to do.. its hilarious

No worse than having to put up with trees/hedges encroaching on your property from lazy neighbours who can't be arsed to keep them trimmed on on their own land!