My neighbours are the best in the world and nothing fazes them. They are palm owners, everything is green and does not go bare in Autumn or winter. For me it’s boring not to have color.

 They gave me their two small standard roses and I gave them a large Yucca..it works both ways.

Kate

Chris:

 

I'd take great care with this neighbor of yours. We had a loco fella next door who we believe tried to poison our dog and who intentionally lobbed large, dangerous and illegal firecrackers at our roof every July 4th. This is but a small portion of his misdeeds. Take care how you handle your neighbor as he may truly be unbalanced and you might invite worse incidents. It might not be a bad idea to have a casual chat with the local police. And put up a brick wall with ground glass on top:-) Oh, one other idea: get one of those nighttime cameras, not expensive, that you can set up after dark and to view this particular area. If he can see it, it might be enough to deter him permanently so you might be able to use a camera that's not even working (ebay sells them for parts). What a shame that you lost so many nice plants. Maybe you can nip this in the bud:-) Good luck! Joanie

 

In a message dated 5/14/2019 7:52:31 AM Central Standard Time, 1*@rewrite.hort.net writes:

 

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kitty Morrissy" <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
> To: p*@hort.net
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 6:09:23 AM
> Subject: RE: More plants!
>
> Re  driveway where everything has coincidentally died.
> Salt run off?

It's a raised bed and he says he doesn't believe in salt. It's very mysterious.

He doesn't like me having plants there and hacked back the Daphne and Hypericum that were sticking past the property line by about six inches.  They're elderly (he's 92) and he used to teach horticulture at the University of Illinois.  In fact, he was my old advisor's advisor.

The Daphne and Hypericum all had really bad split branches; the ends that he hacked off removed support, so the branches bowed lower and split at the base.  I also believe they stomped on them a lot as they got in and out of their car.  (The plants were totally dead this spring, so I yanked them).

But it doesn't explain the Hosta that suddenly receded, the hellebores that wilted suddenly this spring and are now gone, the other perennials that died, the Hydrangea that died, or the Weigela that has been there for 80 years (according to the landscape plan of the house) that suddenly lost 2/3 of its branches.  He asked me to tear out the Weigela and I refused, pointing out that it was on that master landscape plan and was planted before his house was even built.  Sad that it's suddenly in decline too.  What's even stranger is that no weeds grow in those places either.  Or that I created that bed twelve years ago and it grew like crazy until he moved in.  Coincidences abound.

Chris

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