My large Agave Americana variegata immediately burst the 2 neighbours balls that came over the fence last summer. No more balls have come over.
I also have a large driveway (shared) that a lot of other neighbours use to turn. Very annoying, esp in winter as the headlights can blare in even from a distance.
Blairs I know what you mean, verry occasionally I got people using our drive to turn round in! Why I don't know, and it always kicks off the dogs. I wouldn't mind, we're in the middle of the lane and it's not a shared drive even. Really annoying if I'm waiting for my partner to come home too. The amount of times, I've jumped up and taken dinner out of the oven, only to have to put it back in!!!, then just as I've got it all back in, I have to take it out again!!!. I'll do sandwiches from now on!
Gardenning Granny, neighbours made it quite clear that NOTHING can touch HIS fence.
I have all 3 lots (30 plants) of Pyracantha now and a Quince tree and Quince bush.
Cant do anything till his fence goes up, then its full steam ahead
Got some wooden stakes too, I'm going to put wire connecting each stake so that the plants can grow against them, Unfortunately due to not being rich, I might have to use some old Barbed wire I found in my shed
Duncan Blackwell I feel your pain (and bubbling annoyance). It was nice for me to sit and read your thread and know we aren't alone as we have had similar and worse problems with our neighbours since they cut down our boundary hedge one day whilst we were at work.
We live in a mid terrace and both sides have had a vendetta against us since the day we moved in almost 5 years ago, the sad thing is we only bought the house for the garden but over time they have vandalised our property and threatened the OH on our own doorstep!
You are so right, the powers that be do nothing and the situation escalates if you get them involved.
Good luck with your project, I hope it gives you peace in your garden and gives them something to think about. Let us know how it goes, I for one will be watching with interest.
Blairs - now looking up agave to see if I have the right conditions and knowledge
Lisa- it breaks my heart to hear of the issues you have with neighbours. Like Duncan's thoughtless, inconsiderate and ignorant ones, it becomes so difficult to deal with because if you stand up to them it can end in retaliation. There's no support for decent people who are just trying to live their lives in peace and quiet. I'm fortunate that the ones I have issues with aren't immediate neighbours, but it makes me feel quite insecure at times.
Duncan - it's great to recycle isn't it? That wire will make a lovely support for all your lovely plants...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Jim, this is where half the argument comes from, I mentioned a couple of years back that the concrete posts were crumbling. He replied with a few choice words and blamed me for it, as I hadn't painted his fence. The panels are the lift out sort, so I told him...... your fence, you paint 'em. You don't decorate my house for me !!!
The fact that painting the fence would not have cured the concrete cancer anyway is irrelevant.
The best is yet to come though, although the back fences are lift out, the fence on the front is 8ft and all in one, on top of his garden wall which is crumbling away. The only way he can do anything to that, which is in desperate need, is from my property. He says when his back fence is done we don't have to have anything to do with each other........SWEET......I don't have to be pleasant and let him onto my property pmsl
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My large Agave Americana variegata immediately burst the 2 neighbours balls that came over the fence last summer. No more balls have come over.
I also have a large driveway (shared) that a lot of other neighbours use to turn. Very annoying, esp in winter as the headlights can blare in even from a distance.
Sorry Joe, did you say something I nodded off?
Blairs I know what you mean, verry occasionally I got people using our drive to turn round in! Why I don't know, and it always kicks off the dogs. I wouldn't mind, we're in the middle of the lane and it's not a shared drive even. Really annoying if I'm waiting for my partner to come home too. The amount of times, I've jumped up and taken dinner out of the oven, only to have to put it back in!!!, then just as I've got it all back in, I have to take it out again!!!.
I'll do sandwiches from now on! 
Gardenning Granny, neighbours made it quite clear that NOTHING can touch HIS fence.
I have all 3 lots (30 plants) of Pyracantha now and a Quince tree and Quince bush.
Cant do anything till his fence goes up, then its full steam ahead
Got some wooden stakes too, I'm going to put wire connecting each stake so that the plants can grow against them, Unfortunately due to not being rich, I might have to use some old Barbed wire I found in my shed
Duncan Blackwell I feel your pain (and bubbling annoyance). It was nice for me to sit and read your thread and know we aren't alone as we have had similar and worse problems with our neighbours since they cut down our boundary hedge one day whilst we were at work.
We live in a mid terrace and both sides have had a vendetta against us since the day we moved in almost 5 years ago, the sad thing is we only bought the house for the garden but over time they have vandalised our property and threatened the OH on our own doorstep!
You are so right, the powers that be do nothing and the situation escalates if you get them involved.
Good luck with your project, I hope it gives you peace in your garden and gives them something to think about. Let us know how it goes, I for one will be watching with interest.
Blairs - now looking up agave to see if I have the right conditions and knowledge
My response would have been, Well you shouldn't have put half of it facing my garden then!
Is he going to come around and paint it when it needs it?
Lisa- it breaks my heart to hear of the issues you have with neighbours. Like Duncan's thoughtless, inconsiderate and ignorant ones, it becomes so difficult to deal with because if you stand up to them it can end in retaliation. There's no support for decent people who are just trying to live their lives in peace and quiet. I'm fortunate that the ones I have issues with aren't immediate neighbours, but it makes me feel quite insecure at times.
Duncan - it's great to recycle isn't it? That wire will make a lovely support for all your lovely plants...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Jim, this is where half the argument comes from, I mentioned a couple of years back that the concrete posts were crumbling. He replied with a few choice words and blamed me for it, as I hadn't painted his fence. The panels are the lift out sort, so I told him...... your fence, you paint 'em. You don't decorate my house for me !!!
The fact that painting the fence would not have cured the concrete cancer anyway is irrelevant.
The best is yet to come though, although the back fences are lift out, the fence on the front is 8ft and all in one, on top of his garden wall which is crumbling away. The only way he can do anything to that, which is in desperate need, is from my property. He says when his back fence is done we don't have to have anything to do with each other........SWEET......I don't have to be pleasant and let him onto my property pmsl
Duncan, feel so bad for you. The barbed wire will pop a few balls, maybe
. I'd be putting it up high, above his fence, just for devilment
.