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  • #1

    It is finally dead yipee!!!

    When we moved in some fourteen years ago the people living next door then planted a mile a minute vine at the bottom of the garden.
    Neighbours have come and gone since then and i have been doing battle with the triffid it turned into ever since!
    Had to move my greenhouse because it grew through the fence and pushed its way into my green house.
    Yesterday went down to look in my green house and present next door neighbour, nice chap, was standing looking at the triffid, he had started to cut it down.
    He looked fed up and said he didn't know where to start, offered mine and son and heirs help, we went round and i took out over ten years angst out on the bloomin thing, we had it chopped down and gone within 40 minutes.
    Now i can move my greenhouse back to where i really wanted it, got to know the neighbours even better and they are going to grow veg in the land they have reclaimed. Sorted! Jobs a good one.
    Have you got any thugs in your garden/neighbours you would be glad to see the back of?(talking plant type)
    When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. ~Author Unknown
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    Next door have a honeysuckle running through the divding hedge, it smells beautiful in the evening when I'm up there watering the greenhouse etc, they have a gardener who keeps their side under control, on our side it goes crazy and if I'm not watching it grows across the path and into the greenhouse and behind the tomatoes. It seems impossible to beat.

    There are also the brambles which grow through the larger shrubs, by the time they peep out they can be up to 30' long!
    Life is too short for drama & petty things!
    So laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly!

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    • #3
      The house next door has some sort of creeper that keeps going through the fence and into mine. Admittedly the front garden did get a bit neglected last year, but the clear up has started and I was stunned at how many little roots there were from it. Its variegated and it looks as though it forms roots wherever it touches the ground. I hate it. It looks plenty nice enough in their garden.
      Have also been taken over by buttercups, been trying to dig them all out.
      Kirsty b xx

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      • #4
        Well done,Miffy.You gained some growing space and got to know your neighbour.

        I have brambles growing with the hedge,it grows upwards so before I notice it's about 6 feet long(if not longer than that).I tried to pull it from the ground but it's very stubborn and always regrows.
        The other thing I'd like to get rid of is irish ivy-years of neglecting the garden and the stuff overgrown everything-managed to cut off most of it last year but it's still creeping here and there.Not to mention the fence badly needing replace as the ivy grew throuh it.

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        • #5
          ... bleddy conifers ...
          All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
          Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Glutton4... View Post
            ... bleddy conifers ...
            Took care of 8 of my inherited ones!

            I have morning glory plants everywhere (behave peeps!) and try as I might, I cannot seem to get rids of the beeping things!!! The smallest bit of root left turn your back and I'm sure the damn thing actually laughs at my efforts to erraticate it!
            Never test the depth of the water with both feet

            The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory....

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            • #7
              Last year I finally did for the huge clump of pampas grass that we'd inherited in the back garden and gained a lot of space for my compost bins. When we first came there was a new mile a minute vine, recently planted. That was the first thing to go in the new compost bin!
              Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

              www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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              • #8
                Yeah, conifers from previous owner and masses of ivy. Would love to get rid of both, but garden so small there is nowhere to dispose of the remains, and I refuse to pay the council £26 a year for the 3 or 4 times we would use the removal service!
                Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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                • #9
                  We're surrounded by conifers planted by previous owner, but if I got rid of them I'd lose my valuable privacy. I love them and hate them at the same time. I can't grow very much out there, so I have what I laughingly call a 'woodland garden' - the birds like it

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                  • #10
                    Yep Ivy from next door.
                    Gardening ..... begins with daybreak
                    and ends with backache

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                    • #11
                      We are lucky at home, but on lotty my neighbour's bramble, couch grass and bindweed keeps coming under the fence
                      All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                      • #12
                        Next door neighbour has a big shed, with one "wall" next to me.

                        Behind our gardens is a big tiangle of grass (cut by the council) the council over the years have stopped cutting further and further away from our fences

                        Behind the shed is an infestation of Bramble, bind weed and sticky willow I hate the lot of them. The bind weed got into the compost bin last year

                        Does remind me of an old friend though, who moved into a new house and loved the "ivy" growing up her back fence, it was a rare ivy she said because it flowered, lovely white trumpet flowers it had.

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