Neighbor used herbicide on many of my collected plants
rockthief
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Comments (8)I feel your pain!!! Have been going through a similar situation with a neighbor (for 17 yrs now!). They, too, do things under the guise of "helping" me. I put drought tolerant plants in our front yard, that butts up to the property line between us. They had automatic sprinklers & would flood the area regularly-which would over-spray into our yard. I used to ask nicely, could you adjust your sprinklers, attempting to be a "good" neighbor. His response was "you don't want FREE water"? NO...I don't! There were a variety of offenses...them not understanding boundaries & personal property issues. They cut plants, moved boundary rocks, pulled out plants, etc. When I caught them doing it, they claimed they were just "helping" me. Yikes! What part of "don't touch my plants" don't you understand? I used signs at times. Didn't help. I have no landlord to go to with a complaint. You should...go complain!! Have a face-to-face talk with the neighbor. Unfortunately, my talks with ours fell on deaf ears. They think they can do whatever they want. We are currently in the process of ripping out ALL plants between us, just so we can install a WALL (at great expense to us)...as these folks still don't get it when we ask them not to touch our plants, or things on our property. I wish you luck resolving this issue. I'd say you should enlist the help of your landlord (esp. if you say they have installed a raised bed without permission)....See MoreNeighbors destroyed my plants
Comments (79)Jo, Sadly there's almost nothing to do at this late time. Only with-in maybe the first hour if you sprayed heavily with water you might save the big stuff but will lose a lot in looks the first year or so. I sprayed some of my plants with Deet for protection for myself and it over sprayed some of my plants. Washed off the best I could a day later but with-in a month, they all died. Take pictures and call the police to record the event and ask your insurance agent about refund or at lest could maybe write if off income tax if you file the long form. A little is better than nothing. Police report is needed to do anything first. Ask a local nursery for a estimate of damage for cost replacement. Trees are more valuable than you think....See MoreWill covering plants help with herbicide drift?
Comments (6)Legal recourse usually means you have to demonstrate financial loss of some kind. For a hobbyist home gardener, that's not easily done. If the poison affected people or animals, there would be a case. But most common herbicides are considered safe for people at normal exposures. For damage to plants, there's very little that can be done. If she used a landscaping company, I might be able to seek recourse that way, but private use of herbicide on personal property? Her "gardener" is just a guy she grossly underpays to do yard work. He's a nice guy who works like 3 jobs just to feed his family. I'm really not interested in action that could have negative consequences for him. If anyone knows of cases that have actually gotten some kind of recourse, I'd love to hear about it....See MoreGift for neighbor who has been watering my plants
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