A WOMAN has told how she's fed up of her neighbour's overhanging tree dropping berries "all over"her garden, causing pigeons to nest in it and then make a mess all over her fence panels.
The anonymous woman took to Mumsnet and explained how the offending laurel tree is at the end of her neighbour's garden, so next to their back fence.
She continued: "My garden runs along their back fence, it hangs over into mine, but it's also very high, cuts out a lot of sun in mine too.
"I am going to ask (politely) if I can lop the top off."
The woman went on to clarify how her garden is a "b***** mess with the pigeons s***t and the berries everywhere" – and added that she'll "do and pay for the work."
It wasn't long before the post was inundated with messages from social forum users – and responses were very mixed.
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"Are you my neighbour?" asked one. "God they make me miserable, all signs of nature slowly being eradicated."
A second penned: "I have a neighbour who wants me to remove a beautiful mature tree because it shades his patio for an hour in the evening!
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"He didn’t even offer to contribution to the hundreds and hundreds of pounds this would cost!
"The tree is older than the houses. He doesn’t have one hint of nature in his garden.
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"You can and should remove overhanging branches. But complaining that trees have berries and attract birds does seem a bit uptight!"
However, a third argued: "If you’re offering to pay and it’s a sensible time of year for it, I’m not sure I see them saying no.
"They may have been putting off getting it cut back because tree surgeons are so expensive!"
Another agreed: "We inherited laurel in our garden and it's horrible ugly stuff.
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"Just waiting for a tranche of work to take it out and replace with something more attractive and native.
"Could you offer to buy your neighbour a replacement to their taste? I would snap your hand off!"
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