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Renting house with invasive bamboo

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Adviceneeeeded · 01/07/2024 18:39

Hello

I'm looking for a bit of advice please!

We rent a house. The house had a wooden pergola structure in the garden. This collapsed begining of this year in a storm. The landlord had it cut down and left in the garden on a grassy area this obstructs some of the flowerbeds and I can't get to them to maintain them.

I have been patient and reminded the estate agents a few times asking them to remove it.

Now we have has spring and moving into summer. Foliage is trying to claim it and there's only so much cutting back I can do!!

It's taking a lot of my time.

The house has climbing plants which never seem to be tamed. The house also has bamboo and this is popping up everywhere!! Especially now the pergola fell down. Its literally taking over my life!

I have spent days haxking things down and back and paying for foliage to be removed and the landlord will not help. I have accepted this as maintaining the garden

So I'm asking really. Aibu in asking the landlord to remove his broken pergola. Plus the foliage trying to climb on and through it? Or just the wooden structure.

And what do I do about this fucking bamboo.

I'm co sodering breaking my lease early and living because I am really struggling and hw keeps suggesting I employ a Gardner to deal with it! It needs to be dug out. I am now at the point where I chuck weed killer down. I'm avoiding chopping it, as the more I chop, the more it spreads!! It's directly in the ground.

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Daleksatemyshed · 01/07/2024 18:50

Sorry Op but bamboo is an absolute pain once it take hold, it spreads underground and springs up everywhere. You need to get the roots out but you'll need some decent gardening tools to get them out. If your LL doesn't want to do anything about it I'd consider moving

Adviceneeeeded · 01/07/2024 18:52

I'm sold @Daleksatemyshed we where looking anyway and potentially found somewhere. But there's a 3 month wait. So I'm hoping by then the foliage will have died down a bit and I will hack it down and bugger off.

I hate this garden. When we moved in it was winter and it was down to its bones. So we didn't realise how much there was to do. I have cried over this garden so many times.

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Daleksatemyshed · 01/07/2024 19:23

Don't worry about hacking it down @Adviceneeeeded , if your landlord can't be bothered to keep the garden decent then that's his problem. If you cut too much down he might be a cheeky git and suggest you've damaged his property!
I hope you're next place has a lovely garden you can be happy in.

Adviceneeeeded · 01/07/2024 19:31

Thank you but it has to be left how we received it. Even though its an opposite season!!

Onwards and upwards hopefully

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