Der Eldritch Horror an meinen Toren
Von: MerlinTrismegistus
Der Eldritch Horror an meinen Toren
Von: MerlinTrismegistus
33 Comments
that’s an escalade
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Are you sure they’re not buried underneath ?
So is that really thin V shape is someone’s garden?
Is this just a weird perspective or does your neighbours garden narrow down to under a meter towards the back?
It looks really pretty
I bet if you knocked the neighbour would let you nuke it all…
At least the flowers are pretty.
Love it. It supports several kinds of moths including elephant hawk moth caterpillars and convolvulus hawk moth caterpillars. Bees and other flying insects love it. And the flowers are so beautiful. If you can keep on top of it then go for it. Nature will thank you.
Are they allergic to gardening, love bindweed (?!?) or plain hiding some Fred and Rose West shenanigans lol
Well, I guess the flowers are nice.
Is there a boat… or something covered in a tarp… drowning in that sea of green? 😶
Your neighbour needs to rent some goats for a day
I have this exact problem with bindweed in my neighbours garden. She’s very nice, and lives on her own, she’s not old. But I think she is allergic to gardening.
I’ve got a neighbour like this! Except its brambles as thick as your legs and it damaged a wall and a window 🎉
I quite like the bindweed flowers, so I just let it grow in part of the hedge. Every now and then I yank some of it out so it doesn’t go too crazy.
This year I might try making cord with it.
I feel your pain. I have a neighbour who has bindweed and Leylandii. I tear out the bindweed on my side and gaze in wonder as it tops the massive conifers on her side. Truly nature is awesome.
As much of a nuisance as it is and I certainly don’t envy you, it is a very beautiful plant.
Looks pretty. Butterflies and hawk moths love bindweed
I’ve got a horrible retaining wall at the back of the garden and abit of open area which gets covered in bindweed and various other wild flowers , usually I just nuke it with glyphosate but this year I’ve left it and I have never seen so many butterflies and other flying insects about so I’m happy I’ve left it
Their cats defo ate their face two years ago inside the house.
It’s a very pretty plant if you can control it, I always admire it in hedgerows
Your neighbour has thrown in the towel and surrendered to the Bindweed.
In my old house I leant into it, bindweed trains really well, it’s a pain when you fight it (multiple new plants) but if you train it and maintain it, then it’s lovely (if your neighbours just don’t care)
At least you won’t need to water, that stuff will survive anything. It’s probably as deep as the water table.
To be fair, it’s more attractive than your fence (no offence intended!)
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I have a similar thing with my neighbours. I’ve been cutting it back for the last few years and she is OK with it and it creates a lovely cascade of colour in my garden with the new growth an she gets none of the colour. I hate the plant in all honesty as it grabs onto anything an climbs like crazy but when it wants to it looks really pretty so I am taking advantage of that. The picture above is my cat sitting under the neighbour’s invading plant.
Nothing worse than having to deal with a neighbours over spill. It’s a never ending battle. Ivy is the worst, at least you got some flowers.
I’d be so pissed off. I hate the stuff. My mam gifted me some heirloom daylilies that were my great grandmother’s and they came with a little bindweed stowaway so every summer I hunt through to find it and rip out as much root as I can without hurting the lilies.
I have a similar ongoing struggle with the neighbours. They refuse to do anything about their garden. Because “they do use it anyway”. I’ve offered to clear it myself and they won’t accept. So instead I’ve just got to keep fighting the creep.
We have a similar issue with our neighbour’s bramble. Their whole garden is just a 6’ tall thorny mass that snakes its way over (and under, and through…) our fence. Happy wildlife, though.
We had this but with bramble, neighbours garden was just one big bramble bed that spread over into ours, forever trying to cut it back. When he first moved in he cut it all back, spent days digging it out then just left it to run wild again. Thankfully don’t live there anymore but now we have bramble that grows through from the woods at the side of our house. I think I’ll be forever haunted by it
I have a similar problem.
HMOs on both sides. Brambles, bindweed, and chest high ragwort, caper spurge, rosebay and thistle. It’s a constant battle to keep mine clear.
I do leave some brambles and bindweed in the far corners of mine, because the wildlife loves both, but it’s a constant battle to keep it in check. This looks lovely!