My neighbour’s eucalyptus trees

[Jungfraujoch]

There are 2 right on the boundary, one is actually touching the fence (it’s hers). They are getting very tall and overhanging a section of my flowerbed and path. She is not a gardener and I know will just let them grow and grow plus she probably doesn’t want the expense of trimming them! I’m going to have to ask her if I can pay to get them pruned with aren’t I?

With a normal sized eucalyptus (as opposed to a dwarf), I cut them down to the ground each year. Do you think she'd be willing? The nice young foliage for flower arranging/drying grows back again and again to a good size. Once they get really big they are difficult to keep in check.

Failing that, pollarding could work.

The nice young foliage for flower arranging/drying grows back again and again to a good size.

I've got an accidental eucalyptus which seeded into a pot before the monster trees over the lane were felled (we would get lots of debris in our garden after high winds!). I cut that as and when needed to stop it getting too tall, and brought some in a few weeks ago. Last weekend I picked up a bunch of pink roses reduced to £2.50 - I'm no flower arranger but they look really good together imo,

UPDATE. Tree surgeon cut off all overhanging branches on my side. He suggested to her would be a good idea to reduce the height and pointed out they need regular trimming but she wasn’t having any of it! Hey ho!