Brambles need simple pruning and redirecting, ha, we have them growing about 100 feet in length from our neighbours, so thick they have actually smashed through the fence, which is falling to bits, they are young fit healthy, (well, the neighbours AND the weeds!) conifers huge, Hubby had to rmove branches hanging over our garden a good 6 feet, I do actually have a wild life area, and cultivated blackberries, next to raspberries etc, they are just gradually letting the garden go to rack and ruin with a serious knock effect to us. Pointless, getting together with other neighbours, they have a new neighbour the other side who also does nothing, but doesnt have the brambles, just the dandilions and grasses. Dont buy a property with a big garden if you arent interested in gardening!
The neighbour in question has been in the house over 30 years and had most of it set up as a veg garden. He just seemed to lose interest once he retired. It's not a health problem, he prefers his golf now.
The neighbour in question has been in the house over 30 years and had most of it set up as a veg garden. He just seemed to lose interest once he retired. It's not a health problem, he prefers his golf now.
"The only thing duller than the game of golf, is the overwhelming majority of those who play it" There's no hope.
Oh, I like that one Pai Jo, I have started trying to bend them back over, am fed up with spending MY time and money removing and disposing of their weeds, and have ruined 2 t shirts, cut a bramble and the blasted thing has fallen and made a hole, one last year one this year not happy!!
NannyB - how about getting hold of some leaflets/cards with garden care businesses and shoving them through their letterbox..... It's disgraceful how many people allow that when they live in a residential area. I don't care how often folk say it's 'great to have a wildlife garden' and not be too tidy, but if you live among other people in an urban/semi urban location, you have a certain responsibility. It's also very offputting if you're trying to sell your house.
I have an elderly neighbour [across the road] who actually contacted the council about her neighbour, because of the state of his front garden. These aren't rented properties - all privately owned. I forgot to ask her if she got anywhere with it, but he now appears in June completely kitted out as though he's going on a jungle sortie, and strims it. Perhaps once more in August/September. Still looks like a heap of sh*te most of the time, but at least she doesn't have all his weeds in her front garden now.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It is frustrating, annoying and infuriating but there is nothing you can do. I am in a similar situation, except next door's land extends to fields not garden surrounding my garden. Him next door is young, fit and strong, but not interested in gardening.
He is always going to do "something" with his "estate". A very large wooden climbing frame appeared which he and his brother in law had more fun using than the kids, now there is a scaffolding frame the size of a large workshop erected for the kids who have never really used it, he was going to put a poly tunnel up to grow veg., he was going to have an allotment, he was going to keep chickens, which lay blue eggs, to sell the eggs. He tried keeping a couple of unwanted lambs to grow on for the larder but that only happened a couple of times.All that has happened is brambles several feet high climb over the bank into my garden and the weed seeds blow into my garden, some of which are a few feet tall. Rape, hog weed etc. They can barely gain access to the fields at the moment the grass is so high. He bought a tractor which now doesn't work, he managed to get it to the centre of one of the fields early in the year, it was abandoned there for several weeks before it disappeared. He has built a deck area just in front of my kitchen window and put a 6ft close board fence around it and has barbeques by their front door which means the smell wafts straight into my front door and windows.
I know the answer probably is to move as he has just given up working for himself and is working away from home, only being around every2nd weekend so things are not going to improve.
I suppose it could be much worse for us. Maybe have something with a noxious smell going on, or ear splitting noise from machinery all day. Perhaps we are not so badly off after all! At least where I am is quiet most of the time. Until the kids come home. Do not get me started on that one.
Whew!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have had my rant, now I am going to have a cuppa.
I agree fairygirl, as for the leaflets we get loads through the doors all the time, he says he hasnt got the time or money to do the garden, yeah right nights out, fancy car, holidays! (well why buy the place then, plenty of places with smaller plots) its getting worse and worse every year, as for the selling thing, our last place, all nice and tidy, new drive, etc etc, it was a semi, lots of people came round said they loved our place, but sorry, no wanting to be joined to the other half of the semi, (weeds a foot high in the gutters for Gods sake, not including the rest!) Other side, pretty awful, as well, all people with profesional jobs, well paid, they didnt have as much garden as us because they both had big extensions, we didnt, just the original house and and a conservatory. The house was up for £250.000, we had done everything to it, over 12 years, had to drop it to £210.000, that was going to be our pension fund. The last 2 houses we owned, we had to fork out for the fence both sides, as nothing was being done, last but one was quarter of an acre, a blooming LOT of fence!
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It's disgraceful how many people allow that when they live in a residential area. I don't care how often folk say it's 'great to have a wildlife garden' and not be too tidy, but if you live among other people in an urban/semi urban location, you have a certain responsibility. It's also very offputting if you're trying to sell your house.
I have an elderly neighbour [across the road] who actually contacted the council about her neighbour, because of the state of his front garden. These aren't rented properties - all privately owned. I forgot to ask her if she got anywhere with it, but he now appears in June completely kitted out as though he's going on a jungle sortie, and strims it. Perhaps once more in August/September.
Still looks like a heap of sh*te most of the time, but at least she doesn't have all his weeds in her front garden now.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It is frustrating, annoying and infuriating but there is nothing you can do. I am in a similar situation, except next door's land extends to fields not garden surrounding my garden. Him next door is young, fit and strong, but not interested in gardening.
He is always going to do "something" with his "estate". A very large wooden climbing frame appeared which he and his brother in law had more fun using than the kids, now there is a scaffolding frame the size of a large workshop erected for the kids who have never really used it, he was going to put a poly tunnel up to grow veg., he was going to have an allotment, he was going to keep chickens, which lay blue eggs, to sell the eggs. He tried keeping a couple of unwanted lambs to grow on for the larder but that only happened a couple of times.All that has happened is brambles several feet high climb over the bank into my garden and the weed seeds blow into my garden, some of which are a few feet tall. Rape, hog weed etc. They can barely gain access to the fields at the moment the grass is so high. He bought a tractor which now doesn't work, he managed to get it to the centre of one of the fields early in the year, it was abandoned there for several weeks before it disappeared. He has built a deck area just in front of my kitchen window and put a 6ft close board fence around it and has barbeques by their front door which means the smell wafts straight into my front door and windows.
I know the answer probably is to move as he has just given up working for himself and is working away from home, only being around every2nd weekend so things are not going to improve.
I suppose it could be much worse for us. Maybe have something with a noxious smell going on, or ear splitting noise from machinery all day. Perhaps we are not so badly off after all! At least where I am is quiet most of the time. Until the kids come home. Do not get me started on that one.
Whew!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have had my rant, now I am going to have a cuppa.