Re: Off-topic: Neighbor is a pain in the privets

In a message dated 5/8/01 10:21:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jyang1@home.com 
writes:

<< We are quite willing to plant 50 feet of Euonymous shrubs, even though
 it means he gets a significant upgrade over the existing
 shrubs--anything to avoid more contact. But, again, I doubt that anybody
 sells Euonymous that are tall enough to screen our offensive corner of
 the world from his view. Any suggestions for satisfactory replacement? >>

What an interesting problem, one I think, that has no solution that is a 
win/win.  You neighbor probably thought you were going to shear off a few 
inches.

There is a hedging plant Rhamnus frangula 'TallHedge' that can be purchased 
in very tall specimens.  It is a very narrow woody and would take a lot of 
plants.  It would give you instant hedge at any height you wanted. Probably 
very expensive.

Your neighbor's privet can have proper pruning, soil improvment, mulching and 
fertilizing and will grow three feet this summer.  With a tool called a 
"sawsall" or something like that (my husband has one and you can get into all 
kinds of small and curving places with the blade)  you can cut out old, dead 
and ugly parts of the hedge.  The soil improvement and fertilizer will give 
you a better looking hedge by fall.  Your neighbor should go for that, it 
will give him many more years of a hedge with a better appearance.  That 
would be less expensive and more reasonable.  

Many years ago, I planted a line of lilac suckers to mark a property line on 
a large suburban property we owned.  I envisioned May clouds of blooming 
lilacs in time.  The neighbor on the other side of the lilacs, a good 
neighbor an friend came to me after a few years and said I was shading his 
small vegetable garden.  Could he cut a few branches for a shaft of morning 
light.    I said sure, there a LOT of lilacs.  Nothing happened for a while.  
We went away one weekend and came home to find the lilac hedge cut down to 
one foot for most of it's length.  These agreements should be very clear and 
repeated in front of a witness.  We moved in time and the hedge is probably 
still there.  Charlie was our friend for years and the lilacs were never 
mentioned again.

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