She sure does need to get a life Rocky.

Thanx Megan it takes a lot of  keeping up but well worth it.

We have runner and broad beans growing out the back, can't wait for the runners......love them. 

Such a shame Sue but the gardens looks amazing x

That stupid woman should be totally ashamed of herself losing all those beautiful trees for the sake of a fence she needs to get a life 

Bet the number of guys working on your trees was Tree Fellers 

Leaf it out Clare

Stop barking me up the wrong way

Lovely bench..... may you always have wine to sit there and toast each other x

Bet the number of guys working on your trees was Tree Fellers 

The bench looks right at home there and I'm sure hubby will spend many a happy hours on it perusing his estate xx

Thanx Caz

After picture.

I thought you would like to see what I bought hubby for his birthday....new garden bench.

It is a real shame that you had to remove so many lovely trees just so the neighbours fencing wouldn't be hurt. For goodness sake, trees are the lungs of the world and I for one would sooner have living trees, shrubs, bushes etc used as a boundary rather than boring wooden fencing! Maybe the height of them could be a dispute, I believe fences are only allowed to be 6ft tall so I'm guessing that could apply to trees too.  Such a shame you couldn't have cut the trees down a little to please the neighbour but I'm sure you explored all avenues leading up to and since the solicitors letter..........

 Thanx for your comments all.

When she got a solicitor onto us, we made it very clear in our letter back to them that all the work  would

be carried out but we didn't say when.

She will have to wait until maybe next spring for the other work to be done.

It's a pretty big garden Caz, that was just a quarter of the front garden.

Her fence goes all the way from front to back  and because of our tree roots some have got underneath and lifted a few posts and made some panels lean.

Which is fair enough but the fence has been there 25 years when she first put it up and we planted the trees after.

These  pictures. all those trees up against her fence have gone now, I haven't taken any after pictures yet but there's only three trees standing now.That's just a quarter of the back garden so its a lot to keep up in itself without having to do other stuff.

I think I have told most of you why we liked the trees so high as her new boyfriend likes to exercise and hang the washing out starkers.

On that note we have all the family coming round for afternoon bar-be in the garden, a late birthday tea for Andy, he's been milking his birthday for a few days now.

I do hope the weather cheers up a bit.

    How sad you had to lose so many lovely trees   Sue all because some people need to get a life very badly.

Thanks for the photos Sue, a real case of one picture is worth a thousand words, What a pain your neighbour sounds, I hope she is finally happy. 

WOW! I imagined you had acres of land, almost like an orchard for the need to remove so many trees. Your pics reveal a much smaller area for so many trees and hope you can at last call a truce with neighbours now they're felled. Life really is too short for conflict x