Help - Resolva

[Glitchymn1]

I know, I know…. I sprayed it on our garden patio, just wanted something quick and effective to get rid of the weeds.

Unfortunately the mist appears to have carried to a few leaves belonging to the neighbour’s lilac tree. It’s a tall tree, but has lower branches that sprout further down the tree if that makes sense.
About 20 leaves now have speckled brown dots on them. He has seen them and isn’t happy at all (understandably). Says I’ve used poison and it’s illegal to buy and use.

If I had removed the leaves by hand, he would never have known. It’s affecting one or two branches which overhang, shall I just cut them off or will that make it worse?

Don’t understand how it’s happened, as I have shrubs in that area too and they’re not affected.

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It's not illegal to buy weedkiller, or you wouldn't be able to get it in B&Q! How high up were you spraying from that it got on the leaves of his tree, that genuinely seems a bit unlikely if your own shrubs are unaffected.

He thinks it is- I’m not arguing with him as he won’t accept it.

My shrubs are in tubs - I can only think the wind took the spray? it’s just two branches affected/he’s counted the leaves affected. There are 20 leaves, with brown spots. The branches lean out to the side rather than up in the air.
Trust me, @PenCreed I wouldn’t purposely target his leaves or antagonise him in any way.

He sounds nuts, and I wouldn’t engage with him tbh. You aren’t going to kill a whole tree with a bit of weed killer drift.

Do your shrubs have very small leaves OP? Because weedkiller works more effectively on large-leafed plants, which might be why only the lilac tree was affected.
However, I'd expect the entire leaf to turn brown if it had been hit by weedkiller, is it possible the lilac tree was already diseased with something that hasn't spread throughout the entire tree yet, and he saw you out with weedkiller one day, then noticed the diseased lilac and put two and two together and made five?

It is probably a leaf blight or something rather than your spray.

Resolva is useless in my experience, so I very much doubt a few drops would kill a tree. NnDN is potty if he thinks it’s illegal as stated above.

Probably lilac blight ( which won’t kill it either, he should cut the leaves off and burn them, though)

weedkiller damage doesn’t look like this, the leaves wilt and then go yellow at the edges

@LemondrizzleShark he isn’t a nice man at all.
I’ve apologised, offered to purchase another tree. He called me a lunatic, said it’s poison and it travels and I could kill him. I’ve walked away, but I know it won’t be the last of it.

I’ve never heard of lilac blight. I’m not a gardener but neither is he. I sprayed it probably around 4 weeks ago. It’s definitely spits and not dead leaves. There are still green bits on the leaves.

Hi, I work as a gardener and have sprayed glysophate (the active ingredient in Resolva) using products not available to the general public as they are higher strength. It sounds extremely unlikely the spots on his lilac were caused by your weedkiller. Not sure what you can do though as he sounds like an awful man! I'd just avoid him.

Thank you all - and @Oatsamazing that’s good to know thank you.