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Where I live, if the apple from your tree falls on my property, it is mine. Also, if a branch of said tree is growing over the property line, I'm free to trim it back to the property line.  Mark Mazer, Hertford, NC, USA

Quote from: MarkMazer on August 16, 2024, 04:45:35 PMif a branch of said tree is growing over the property line, I'm free to trim it back to the property line. 

Not so in the UK, but it occasionally leads to some bloody-minded and horrific disputes, many of them caused by what we say here is "right plant, wrong place".

Some extremely attractive plantings of beautiful trees in particular, which happen to have been planted, maybe 20-30 years previously, too close to a boundary, sometimes even on or directly next to a boundary have been "cut in half".

Very occasionally we also get the beyond totally clueless who insist on removing a border hedge because it needs cutting twice year, to replace it with a fence that takes far longer to paint each year (or should do, if they did but do it), and needs replacing every 5-10 years, depending on the care it receives and the gales that hit it.

Just as well that we don't have guns when such disputes arise.

CG100 wrote:
" Just as well that we don't have guns when such disputes arise."

Years ago I trimmed the neighbors many nuisance Canadian Hemlock tree branches that were overhanging our driveway. He sued and we wound up in court. He had an attorney. We self represented. Five minutes later the judge ruled in our favor. Then I went home and promptly removed the fence that he had put on our property and threw it in his yard. Several years later, during a large snowstorm/blizzard, we saved his life after he had collapsed on his front steps. The old bastard never thanked me even after he crapped in the blanket we used until the medics arrived. His family was prominent and well respected in the small community for many years but he was cut from a different cloth. PS: both my wife and I had concealed gun carry permits. Fond memories.

Mark Mazer
Hertford, Nc
USA

Quote from: MarkMazer on August 17, 2024, 10:18:19 AMJust as well that we don't have guns when such disputes arise

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/twoyear-dispute-over-hedge-ends-in-fatal-shooting-109027.html

"Two-year dispute over hedge ends in fatal shooting"

That was UK 2003, not the current knife crazed riot prone one (hope I can say that).