Before and after.
A neighbour
from hell, I wonder?
I know the
erection of my garden fence left a lot to be desired but there was a reason
behind it.
About 3 year
ago I had new neighbours move in who appear to have no respect for animals or
the environment they live in. They also have about 60 Canaries stuck in cages
in a shed. A pair of budgies who live indoors but are put out in the sun during
the day, 6 hens that live their whole life in a shed no bigger than a coal
bunker, and 5 dogs who are never taken out for walks plus homing pigeons who
are let out to fly above the tree tops. Their garden is regimented and is
over-run with pot plants and garden ornaments, an acquired taste that wouldn’t
suit everybody, whereas I like my garden to be a welcoming place for all the
wildlife. There is always something happening in my garden.
I love
Lavatera, a quite striking shrub which has made my garden look very colourful,
and that is the problem. The woman next door doesn’t like it, she refers to it
as a bloody nuisance. Soon after, my Lavatera’s startd dying, until I had none.
I bought new ones, and soon they died too. A friend of mine I didn’t see regularly, told
me some time later, he had been passing when he see her apparently spraying my
plants, with what he didn’t know. There was no way I could confront her, as I
didn’t have any real evidence except dead shrubs.
So this
spring I decided to put another fence up as I only had a chain link fence there.
It didn’t help they dug up a hedge that had been between us, and had been there
at least 60 years, so I needed something sturdier and to hide what I was
actually growing in my garden. That fence will help without me spending too
much.
I will be
putting extra security in, but for now it will have to do. So it will be down
the nursery soon for some more Lavatera, and this time I hope it is allowed to
grow..