Neighbour’s invasive plant cut back, who should dispose of the trimmings?

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My neighbour has a climbing plant which has become invasive on our side of the fence. It had climbed up/through our trees, and was reaching towards our garden furniture. We cut it back to the boundary and caught them to ask if we could put it in their green bin, but they said it was full and that was the end of the conversation.
For context, we have to pay for green bins where we live. We do not have one for our house, as we don't have enough cuttings etc to warrant a subscription, nor do we want the extra household cost.
Our nearest tip to dispose of cuttings is 30 minutes away, which is why we don't have plants that create lots of cutting ourselves.
Anyway, DH folded the cuttings up neatly/chopped them up small, and placed them next to NDN green bin. We then received a text accusing us of flytipping and that we should have asked their permission.

I don't know what we could have done differently? What are the rules here? I don't want it to be awkward with neighbours which is why we asked them. Yes we could dispose of the trimmings ourselves, but we would have to go incredibly out of our way (an hours drive then time queueing to get in to the tip which can take ages, plus the time spent cutting it all back anyway). My experience with neighbours in the past has always been that the neighbours dispose of cuttings created by their plants overgrowing boundaries? Is this incorrect?

You have to ask them if they want the trimmings. If not you need to dispose of them, but not by tossing them into their garden.

Can you contact the council and see if you can buy one or two large bags to put them in for a one off collection - this is what we can do in our area if we don't subscribe to a garden waste bin.

I don't think OP did anything wrong, and neighbour shouldn't have been aggressive, but I do agree best course of action now for OP is to organise the disposal.

Neighbour has a huge spirea bush that encroaches on our garden, I’ve put bamboo barrier in to try and stop it….and cut it back once a year that fills our green bin…which is always full anyway. But I like the neighbour so I just deal with it in the interests of good relations.

It's from their plants.....op didn't plant them or invite them into her garden. The law is unfair in that respect. Should my neighbour be responsible for my kids if I throw them over the fence?

Spray weed killer on the plant on your side regularly so it doesn’t grow your side anymore

Reading the replies I'm surprised not to have seen anyone pointing out that the garden waste originates from YOUR garden. YOU also created the waste in order to improve your garden for your enjoyment. While the neighbours apparently have the right to the cuttings from their plant, they are under no obligation to accept responsibility for disposing of what has become your rubbish.

They refused to allow you to use their bin and you then left your rubbish on their property, not in their bin. It would have been nice for them to have allowed it, and that would have been the end of it. But it's your problem and I wouldn't let this taint your relationship with them - they have not been unreasonable.

No, you absolutely must not!

Just go and buy the brown garden sacks from a local shop, pop them in there and put them out with your next rubbish collection. Not really sure why this has turned into such a drama, seems completely unnecessary if I’m honest

While the law allows you to manage plants encroaching onto your property, using chemical weed killers is illegal.

This is a classic Judge Judy case scenario.
The person whose plant it is, is always responsible for maintaining it. They should pay to have it trimmed and disposed of.
Can't imagine that it would not be the case in other countries too?

@BBelissimo the law in England is crystal clear, as many on this thread have already said. Once the plant comes over the boundaries, it’s the responsibility of the landowner (the land that the plant is growing on/over) to deal with it. Legally you have to offer the clippings back to the original owner of the plant but they have no legal obligation to take them.

But that's gardening! Half the work is getting rid of things you didn't plant or invite into your garden - or keeping them if you like them.

I've got a lovely hawthorn and a little yew hedge that the birds planted for me. They're not quite where I would have planned them but that's where they've decided to live and they're very welcome. Next door's clematis is glorious in spring and I'm happy for it to trail over our fence although it takes a lot of cutting back. DD is not on speaking terms with her NDN but likes their climber (we're not sure what it is) so much she's put some trellis her side for it and taken some cuttings in case they get rid of it. We used to have staghorn trees in our front garden which were lovely but they got big and unwieldy and nothing grows under them so we got rid. But they then sent suckers under both sets of front steps and popped up next door. We offered to dig them out because they really can be a PITA but the neighbours love them so they kept them. Their kids think it's hilarious - the trees that moved house!

I don't get this attitude that plants must not set as much as a leaf over human boundaries. Is it people whose gardens are all straight lines and hard landscaping in tasteful shades of grey? I prefer an unruly riot of disobedient plants that wander in uninvited any day.

Now, if I could sue the foxes for trespass ...

That is a common misunderstanding. You are supposed to ask them if they want anything you have cut off, especially if it is something with some obvious value eg apples but you are not allowed to just dump it in your neighbour’s garden.

Cant agree strongly enough with this.

If you have a garden, then you must do gardening.

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I just leave all my cutting in a heap to dry out, then I burn them in my bin.

You are petty and you neighbours are going to think you are ar*e’s

If neighbour doesn’t want the cuttings it’s your responsibility to dispose of them.

If I cut back my neighbour's plants on my side, I dispose of it. Sometimes her garden clippings fly over the fence when she is chopping back. I get rid of those too. It's called having a garden and neighbours. Why cause trouble over something so minor.