Neighbour constantly parks close to the boundary and her kids constantly walk all over my plants

[gardenfever]

So basically my neighbour closes practically on the boundary that separates our homes just so her garden area at the front isn’t blocked by her car.

Every single time her kids will walk all over my plants.
Its one of those bay parking drives so a fence would stick out like a sore thumb.
Any suggestions on how to stop this as I am sick of her kids standing all over my plants.

I don’t know what a bay parking area is

Be sure to keep the soil/manure watered to encourage the plants to grow.

@BangersAndGnashthe drive is basically 2 car parking spaces.

I am loving the suggestions 😁, I am just looking for the box planters and then at weekend go to the garden centre for some shrubs.

Sea holly (Eryngium) can be v v spiky and a perennial border plant - so it won’t look too obvious.

Horse manure fertiliser all around your new pyracanthas

Railway sleepers painted in black anti vandal/climb paint that never dries.

legal as long as you have a sign warning that the paint is wet.

This type of thing. These aren't to bad a price or maybe someone on a local FB group might make them a bit cheaper.

@Shatteredallthetimelately thank you that’s a lovely planter, not to expansive either 😀.

@GeorgianaM- thank you, another good suggestion.

@AFrankExchangeofViews- I will have to purchase this as horse manure has been suggested a lot on this thread.

@Exitpursuedbygeese- thank you, I love Hollys and plus it’s good for the wildlife.

If the drive is 2 parking spaces where are the plants.
Where I live drives that are 2 parking spaces don't have space for plants in the middle, occasionally at either side.

A few big stones so you can’t open the car door wide enough without damaging it.

Just find your nearest riding stables, there’ll be plenty of horse poo on the lanes around it that you can collect for free! I think it smells lovely though, we can buy lion poo from our local zoo, that really smells and will keep the cats away (can probably buy it online).

Plant stinging nettle in between your other plants

Plant nettles in your borders, that'll soon sort out the problem.

What about railings if don’t want a fence? You could also grow things up them so they blend in.

I'd personally develop a passion for rockery gardening. Some good sized lumps of rock, strategically placed along the edge of the boarder with give your neighbour the incentive to park further from the boundary once her children have twatted the car door against them a few times.
A diagram would both be lovely and necessary.

Pyrocanthus is your saviour... it is a spikey bastard and a thug... but just what you need in this situation.

Admit it- you just want a diagram!
I know I do, especially as I’m not sure what a parking bay is either 🤔

Fox poo stinks on a whole other level. Not where to source it though……..

So it’s one wide drive for two cars? Or two drives side by side with a flower bed down the middle?

Good fences make good neighbours OP,
for proper advice we need a diagram showing where the property boundary is, where the parking areas are and where shouldn’t parks

I can't understand why we can't have a diagram?
Please please please.?

You must be new here…

Definitely pyracanthas. The previous owners of our house loved them. They’re vicious little bastards!
or as others have said large rocks that’ll damage her case if they bash her doors against them.

Heavy stone planters to move your flowers to.

tmTall enough that her car door would hit them if she didn't leave enough space.
Heavy enough it takes 2 to move them.

Bonus points if you can grow a shrub then prune it into the shape of a hand with raised middle finger. 😁

Hi thanks everyone
I am still looking for planters that are tall enough.

It had been awful today with the neighbours kids playing on my driveway and the parents watching saying absolutely nothing.

I have asked the parents politely to tell the kids to not keep playing on my drive to no avail.

Big planters with pyracanthas in going all the way across it is.

After seeing today how the mother says nothing I won’t be helping her out again either when she expects to get her parcels delivered to my house when she is at work.

We had similar set up and actually it was my kids and more often other neighbours friends that were short cutting across my next door neighbours front lawn to get to our front door, and while our neighbours never complained I was super worried the kids would be a bother or bump their car. I was constantly telling the kids to go round but they’d forget. Like you a fence wasn’t really an option. We planted a row of lavender bushes with some bulbs in amongst, pretty quickly it became a lovely looking low barrier, enough that the children stopped their short cutting. Easy and inexpensive solution.