Neighbours?

I guess we have all had experiences with Neigbours which have made us want to scream..........Ahhhh!!

Today I spoke to an old gentleman who told me he has lived in my neighbourhood for over five decades. To be honest I had not noticed him until quite recently, but for the past few months I have seen him digging on his front verge. He has been meticulously removing the roots of a couple of trees.

Today I found out why. It seems he had a beautiful flowering Morgan Wattle which had been planted a number of years ago and next to it grew a self seeded banksia ( native to WA). Unfortunately, for reasons best known to himself his neighbour had complained to the council that the wattle tree overhung his part of the council verge. Which leads me to the question, "Can trees on a council owned verge overhang the neighbour's verge??"

The City Council, had sent one of its so called, "horticulturists" to deal with the offending tree. After hacking off many branches of the wattle then attacking the inoffensive banksia, he assured the owner that they would soon regrow. They had not and the luckless owner was now spending hours digging out the roots of the tree that had been mutilated.

And the neighbour who complained....well wouldn't you know, six months later they moved.

Ahh neighbours, we all have to learn to live with them, but sometimes.............