Neighbours
New neighbours at the end of the garden came round over the weekend, no hello or anything, they said, "You need to get rid of all those trees, we can't be clearing up all those leaves all the time".
Now I'm incredibly easy going but what! I said you have moved into an area that is heavily wooded that used to be a wood, you are surrounded by ancient majestic trees, at least 20 of them. Why on earth did you move here when there are plenty of characterless bungalows in roads not bothered by any trees all over Seaford? Be off with you, or words to that effect.
I can't believe anyone would expect me to cut all our majestic ash trees down on their orders. I cut them in half every 3 years and that's it.
Bonkers.
They tried it again yesterday and I just went back inside and shut the door. Speechless. Some people won't be happy until every tree in the world is dead.
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If they don't already have them, get a Tree Preservation Order on every damn one of them!!! Pronto!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Verdun, Lou said the are Ash.
we had a similar problem with new neighbour where we used to live, we moved here, no neighbours and all the boundary hedges are ours.
We have two mature ash trees at the end of the garden - although the seeds can be a bit of a pain the seedlings are easily identified and pulled up/hoed out/mowed off. The leaves are very little trouble and the crowns are light and airy and don't shade the garden as much as an oak or a beech would do. They do dry the soil out a bit - but that can be an advantage in some areas. One of ours is poorly and will be felled later this year - we're really sad about it. They're a wonderful wildlife resource, birds, insects and woodmice love them.
Ash trees also figure large in Viking/Saxon folklore and therefore in the history of a large part of the UK - your neighbours have no soul ............ but you know that already.
By the way, property owners are being asked not to fell healthy ash trees as they may be resistant to the Ash Dieback disease and could help the scientists at the John Innes Institute to develop a resistant strain of the native British ash - ash trees are the third most numerous tree in the UK, and if we lose them the whole nature and appearance of the countryside will change
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If mine did that to me I'd be down the bottom of the garden blowing the leaves in their direction
tree preservation order... Now!
They're one of the few trees I'd not be keen on having on my boundary Verdun - but even if they were the most awful trees, there's absolutely no excuse for such appalling rudeness
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I wouldn't care what type of tree they are....we moved into the bungalow that we have been in for 25 years now because of the huge sycamore at the bottom of the garden that I fell in love with. Western Power came at the beginning of the year, wanting to cut it down, so that they didn't have to keep trimming it...my husband told the surveyor that came that if they cut the tree down, his wife would cut their b*lls off!! He was pretty much correct... and they came and trimmed it instead!
I know sycamore are thugs in the garden, but no-one should be insisting on cutting down any mature trees in my opinion, unless they are sick or falling over due to damage .Lou12-stand your ground, and as Runny says, keep your eye on them
Hi Lou,
If you can stand the publicity, get your local paper and TV station in on the act, there is nothing like bad publicity to put bullies off!
And the papers and TV stations love stories like this!
Best of luck!