They've decided to get rid of their in ground pool (also WHY? I'd love a pool!) and redo their landscaping. Redo apparently means cut everything big down & replace with tiny little skinny plants.
This is our little yard - the small part that's fenced in for the dogs.
The rest of the garden has no fence around it.
Grey stuff on grass is sand.
With the wet soil/climate, we need to add sand regularly to improve drainage & stop it from turning all to moss.
In the foreground is the greenhouse.
Yup, lots of slope on this property - it's a big tall greenhouse!
(& um yeah, the house painting got done but we still haven't finished the fences & railings...)
We will be digging up and relocating our 6 foot hedge and replanting that side fence line with the biggest cedars I can find - which looks like 10 footers. Also planning a plum tree. There was a self seeded plum tree in that clump which they yanked. I made the most wonderful jam out of those plums.
As I tweeted earlier, the moral is to not get attached to trees & shrubbery on the wrong side of the fence. We LOVE our privacy. I'm happiest when I can't see anyone else's house. Now this? I'm sad about this.
4 comments:
Sad panda! I love my privacy, too. There's a lot of truth to the 'good fences/good neighbors' platitude. Hopefully things grow quickly back to normal.
Oh yeah, I wouldn't want the neighbours to be sitting on their deck and being able to watch me on mine. Post a picture after you get the new tall hedge in.
Funny you should say Sad Panda, Sarah! I was just thinking of the thing that cheers pandas right up: bamboo! For an instant screen up on the deck
http://www.bamboogarden.com/planters.jpg to provide privacy while the new hedge becomes established.....
Karen, I kinda sympathize with this guy:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/06/huge-leylandii-plymouth-dispute LOL
I'd be sad too. And the next post, with your disappearing cedars? I'd be pissed.
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