Hopefully the plants will grow back quickly @ElizaRose Cheer up, they are just plants and if needed you can always plant similar ones on your side. As to buddleia - aren’t they supposed to be cut down completely every autumn so the come back stronger next year? That shed of yours is really pretty - I’m thinking of painting mine like this come spring. 👍
My neighbours idea of gardening gives me no end of laughs to be honest. His lawn has no grass but is covered in weeds which he strims down (with a hedge cutter lol) every three months. Everything in a pot dies due to incorrect siting, lack of care etc. They bought a very large and pretty salmon pink oleander, can't have been cheap, never once watered it. Same with a large rhododendron, placed in full sun, multipurpose soil and never watered. I just feel sorry for the plants. But.. Its their 'garden'. I imagine them indoors wondering why it all dies. They are the sort that know it all so I just keep to 'good morning, hello etc' Thats it.
@Bijdezee- we have a neighbour across the road who's similar. About once a year [maybe twice] he dons the full gear to strim the front grass. It's the size of nothing - it would take five minutes to mow, and that would include getting the mower out and putting it away! He now has a wisteria on the front wall.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Our farmer neighbours don't garden as such? She has huge pots of the simplest, commonest red peargoniums along the front of the house and keeps them very well. The rear garden is potager and they grow amazing caulis abd sprouts and so on. Nothing ornamental and no grass except in the cow pastures.
The other way is a gendarme who loves his trees. His wife loves flowers and planted a load in a teeny new bed she made under and between 2 trees after seeing what I did with a bed in ours. It failed so I gently explained about shade and dryness. He then spent weeks cutting down trees to get more light nearer the house and trundling round with his rotavator to make her a new shrub and tomato bed - but they didn't water them...........
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Our farmer neigbours now offer us veg from their potager and get fruit and cut flowers in return and she's given me some tips on growing better cauliflowers. The gendarme's wife asked me why her flowers under the conifers had failed, hence the sunshine beds project this year. We swap her quinces and cherries for our globe artichokes, garlic and new potatoes so no doubt the question of watering will arise and they'll do better next year.
It's all about how you communicate and share info and experience.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
It is difficult with close neighbours. The garden on our right is just grass, homeowner. The garden on our left is jungle, tenants. We throw our cuttings into the jungle, and it now has an abundance of lillies, nasturtiums, fuschia, and all kinds of flowering weeds that the bees love. You do have a right to prune anything that overhangs your property, but beyond that, I'm afraid it's live and let live.maybe you could offer your advice?
It is difficult with close neighbours. The garden on our right is just grass, homeowner. The garden on our left is jungle, tenants. We throw our cuttings into the jungle, and it now has an abundance of lillies, nasturtiums, fuschia, and all kinds of flowering weeds that the bees love. You do have a right to prune anything that overhangs your property, but beyond that, I'm afraid it's live and let live.maybe you could offer your advice?
Not sure you are the best of neighbours even if the results are good🤔😮
I'm slightly astonished at that comment too @K67 Throwing stuff over the fence into a neighbouring garden really isn't the right thing to do, even if you think you're doing some sort of favour. Bit at odds with the phrase 'live and let live' too.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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As to buddleia - aren’t they supposed to be cut down completely every autumn so the come back stronger next year?
That shed of yours is really pretty - I’m thinking of painting mine like this come spring. 👍
But.. Its their 'garden'. I imagine them indoors wondering why it all dies. They are the sort that know it all so I just keep to 'good morning, hello etc'
Thats it.
He now has a wisteria on the front wall.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The other way is a gendarme who loves his trees. His wife loves flowers and planted a load in a teeny new bed she made under and between 2 trees after seeing what I did with a bed in ours. It failed so I gently explained about shade and dryness. He then spent weeks cutting down trees to get more light nearer the house and trundling round with his rotavator to make her a new shrub and tomato bed - but they didn't water them...........
It's all about how you communicate and share info and experience.
Throwing stuff over the fence into a neighbouring garden really isn't the right thing to do, even if you think you're doing some sort of favour. Bit at odds with the phrase 'live and let live' too.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...