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Sycamore tree saplings from neighbours tree
m-chalk
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Behind our house their is an alleyway which also adjoins our neighbours back garden.
Each year our neighbours sycamore tree has thousands of saplings which fall onto our lawn which we then have to remove by hand.
We asked our neighbour is we could pay to have the tree trimmed down but he refused to give us his permission.
Is their anything we can do
thank you in advance
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Just mow them off, they don't survive in mown grass.
In the sticks near Peterborough
We tried mowing them off a few years ago but they grew back
Are you sure they will die off if we mow them as the roots are very strong
Lawns usually get cut every 5 to 7 days. It stands to reason that your baby sycamores will eventually die if you keep decapitating them.
I suspect more germinated rather than the originals regrew, yhey make thousands of them. I'm forever pulling them out of flower beds, along with ash and field maple, but there are none in the mown grass
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thank you for your advice
we also have them growing in our japanes garden which we have laid slate
forever removing too
I also get lots and lots of these sprouting up in the borders ..... but they are very easy to pull up and I just add to the compost heap. Not really a big problem.
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We have a big sycamore and at this time of year I'm forever pulling out the little seedlings as they sprout about now up here. They do mow off ok as has already been said, but in a big or busy garden it can be easy to miss them and before you know it you have a sapling in a border somewhere!
Cutting off the overhanging branches may not help much though because you're probably aware the seeds get referred to as helicopters because of their shape. It's not just the shape though, because they will fly a long way. We've had seedlings pop up well over 100 feet from the tree....
I'd say you will just have to stick with pulling up the seedlings as they appear, but on the plus sign they are easy to spot and quite distinctive so you can be certain you aren't pulling up something you want to keep!
No, don't do that. You're supposed to offer any wood/prunings back, not just dump them which is essentially flytipping. And assuming it's a large tree, as Stephanie says trimming a few branches probably wouldn't make much difference.
Sounds like a lot of work and potential legal problems and will solve the problem of around 2% of the seedlings if at all. And as the tree is on the other side of an alley there may be no overhanging branches whatsoever - not at all worth the hassle either way.
We get loads of sycamore seedlings but they're very easy to pluck out, especially before they get their first true leaves and for quite some time afterwards and as Stephanie said - very distinctive looking.
They're pretty inconsiderate are Sycamores - But sometimes you just have to accept that Mother Nature doesn't really prioritise us mere gardeners