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Forsythia - help
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Posted by suggi (My Page) on Thu, Jul 31, 08 at 10:17
| I have 2 forsythia bushes in my yard that I have trimmed (not really pruned) just so it is not so tall and unruly. My neighbor of 2 years has forsythia all along the property line and it is out of control. It is very high and unruly and looks terrible. They are not friendly but I did approach them and was told they are not going to trim like the previous owners and are just going to let everything grow like nature intended. They also have a couple of oak trees in the middle of there lilac bush on the property line that they don't care about that are starting to tower above the high lilac bush. They said they never go on that side of the house anyway so whatever is there doesn't bother them. The property line is quite near my house.
On the other side the neighbor has bushes along his property line that are something like Queen Annes lace or something and are pretty high also plus he has a million oak trees sticking out of the middle of them. I meekly approached him and he did a 2 foot sweep of the oaks and then gave up and came over on my side to get to a couple of the trees and just left them on my lawn -- he did clean up his side. He has not been back out there. He did say a while ago that I could cut out the trees if I wanted to...lol and I don't know how tall the bushes themselves get but are looking very straggly. Do you think it would be OK to clip the oak trees in the other neighbors lilac bush on the bottom and if I can't get them out just leave them to die out.
Being elderly with severe osteoporosis and had a mastectomy I eventually need a house on one floor (in a multilevel-no bathroom, bedroom, kitchen on same floor) and with a mess on both sides wouldn't this turn prospective buyers off? The birds used to fly over the open space over the bushes but now seem to not want to fly that high and are flying really low - right in front of my slider (ground level) and windows around the house where it is open and I can't even let the younger grandkids play out on the ground level patio any more as I am always cleaning up bird feces and they fly right over you when you are out there with no fear. In the spring it is crows and now it is robins, sparrows and I think millions of catbirds that are nesting in the forsythia. I just want to be able to go out without feeling I need an umbrella to avoid getting plopped on -- it happened once already. Now that they have established that path and the neighbors are not going to help by letting everything grow sky high I am really upset.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
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RE: Forsythia - help
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- Posted by bboy z8 WA USA (My Page) on
Thu, Jul 31, 08 at 19:05
| Since older varieties of forsythia are all tall-growing and arching in habit the ones there would probably have to be removed to abate your concerns. If they are planted in a straight line as though to form a hedge it might be possible to turn them into a shorter, sheared hedge but one can only bring them down so far below their unsheared height before it is too far. And if the neighbor doesn't want a rectilinear sheared appearance, including the time, labor and disposal involved then that is not likely to happen. |
Don't Do Anything Without Permission
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- Posted by bboy z8 WA USA (My Page) on
Thu, Jul 31, 08 at 19:11
| I've got neighbors behind who have taken it upon themselves to reach over our fence and cut my shrubs, without prior discussion. After finally saying something to them it appears the result I have gotten is that they are still doing it. In my state cutting of vegetation on land belonging to others is defined as criminal trespass. A stem of my black bamboo was cut in half at fence height and thrown onto my side of the fence. When I pointed this out I was asked what were they supposed to do about the bamboo being on their side. Turns out it wasn't sprouting on their side, it was merely dropping some leaves onto their bark mulch. I'm thinking about adding to the height of the fence in some way so that it is physically impossible for them to reach over the top and snip and saw at my shrubs. |
RE: Forsythia - help
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| Guess you are saying I am stuck. All I can do is try to keep them from crowding out my side....they already have taken over some of my lawn...this bad winter broke some of them patially also and they are moatly on my side -- don't know what to do about that. |
RE: Forsythia - help
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Anything that hangs over your property you have the right to cut off.
Anything.
You do not have the right to ever go on another person's property and cut or trim any of their greenery, no matter what it is.
The property line has an "invisible" line that goes up to the sky.
You must stay with in your own property line.
You can hire young men to come and cut the shrubs that are bothering you that are Legally on your property, OR
you can move.
Complaining to your neighbors will get you no where.
They will purposely let the stupid little trees grow just to spite you.
You already want to move to a home all on one floor.
What is stopping you?
GOod Luck! |
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