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My neighbour (who we constantly have bickering disputes with) has just
knocked on my door and asked when I'm going to do something with the
'eyesore' of a climbing rose on the wall next to her house (on our land,
up our wall, but potentially flopping towards her house, and dropping
petals onto our land which may blow onto her path)

Given I'd just been deadheading it yesterday, this didn't really please
me too much. I'm normally more placating, but this time I just told
her I like it and to **** off. I've pinned it up so it's not flopping
near her window any more, and you can walk under it without it bopping
on the head (over /our/ bit of path, which runs down the front of all
the houses).

Since when has a rose full of flowers ever been "an eyesore"?!
:-(

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My neighbour (who we constantly have bickering disputes with) has just
knocked on my door and asked when I'm going to do something with the
'eyesore' of a climbing rose on the wall next to her house (on our land,
up our wall, but potentially flopping towards her house, and dropping
petals onto our land which may blow onto her path)

Given I'd just been deadheading it yesterday, this didn't really please
me too much. I'm normally more placating, but this time I just told
her I like it and to **** off. I've pinned it up so it's not flopping
near her window any more, and you can walk under it without it bopping
on the head (over /our/ bit of path, which runs down the front of all
the houses).

Since when has a rose full of flowers ever been "an eyesore"?!
:-(


Right thing to say. They will probably not give you anymore rubbish now
that you have vented your spleen. Well done I say.

Baz

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In article ,
says...

Since when has a rose full of flowers ever been "an eyesore"?!
:-(

I knew someone who cut off every single flower bud (hundreds) on a huge
old healthy shrub rose, just before they started to open. She told me such
a magnificent flowering would "exhaust its strength and kill it".


Janet

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Baz wrote:
Since when has a rose full of flowers ever been "an eyesore"?!

Right thing to say. They will probably not give you anymore rubbish now
that you have vented your spleen. Well done I say.

Oh, she will. It's normally her husband rather than her, but it's been
one thing after another - they didn't like the compost at the end of the
garden, they think the chickens bring in mice (they don't, they just chase
them out of our garden into hers! Heaven forbid she finds out about the
rats, though!), they got fruit flies in their kitchen last year or the
year before when it was really damp and there were flies everywhere and
we got the blame for that, Nick was once drilling at 9pm to put a tv up
(when we got home from work) and they complained about that, they have
moved the boundary fence back and forth and nearly killed one of our
favourite roses due to it, then when Nick put posts up to grow grapes
and hops on that boundary fence with wires, they complained about that
(even though it was built to stop their child bouncing on his trampoline
and shouting into our garden) ...

And in the meantime, people (not us, afaik) complain at them about them
letting their dogs roam about on the common grass in front of the house
and crap everywhere ...

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Janet wrote:
Since when has a rose full of flowers ever been "an eyesore"?!

I knew someone who cut off every single flower bud (hundreds) on a huge
old healthy shrub rose, just before they started to open. She told me such
a magnificent flowering would "exhaust its strength and kill it".

Their own, or someone else's? Why on earth wouldn't they just cut it
down at the stem then dig it out if they wanted to kill it?
(Anyhow, surely that wouldn't work - the flowers take energy, so if you
are trying to kill it it'd be better to make it flower /more/ not less!
The leaves woudl be the things to target!)

People are bloody annoying. :-(

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Janet wrote:

I knew someone who cut off every single flower bud (hundreds) on a huge
old healthy shrub rose, just before they started to open. She told me such
a magnificent flowering would "exhaust its strength and kill it".

That's the sort of logical person who pays extra for leather car
seats, then protects them with PVC, so they look good for resale.

Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.

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On 17/07/2012 14:57, wrote:
Janet wrote:
Since when has a rose full of flowers ever been "an eyesore"?!

I knew someone who cut off every single flower bud (hundreds) on a huge
old healthy shrub rose, just before they started to open. She told me such
a magnificent flowering would "exhaust its strength and kill it".

Their own, or someone else's? Why on earth wouldn't they just cut it
down at the stem then dig it out if they wanted to kill it?
(Anyhow, surely that wouldn't work - the flowers take energy, so if you
are trying to kill it it'd be better to make it flower /more/ not less!
The leaves woudl be the things to target!)

People are bloody annoying. :-(

Try treading the post in full
"cut off every single flower bud (hundreds) on a huge old healthy shrub
rose, just before they started to open.
She told me such a magnificent flowering would "exhaust its strength and
kill it".
She was trying to save it from killing its self

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On 7/17/2012 10:04 AM, Chris J Dixon wrote:
Janet wrote:

I knew someone who cut off every single flower bud (hundreds) on a huge
old healthy shrub rose, just before they started to open. She told me such
a magnificent flowering would "exhaust its strength and kill it".

That's the sort of logical person who pays extra for leather car
seats, then protects them with PVC, so they look good for resale.

I once knew a woman who put slipcovers on her brand new living room
furniture to protect the upholstery, covered the slipcovers with clear
plastic covers to keep the slipcovers clean, then put towels over the
plastic, to protect it...

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Sacha wrote in :

Some people were born to live up a muddy track in total isolation.
These sound just such a family!

I understand who you mean!

Baz

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Sacha wrote:
Some people were born to live up a muddy track in total isolation.
These sound just such a family!

Actually, I think they think /we/ are such a family!

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David Hill wrote:
Try treading the post in full

I did, but you're right, I mis-understood the quoted bit

"cut off every single flower bud (hundreds) on a huge old healthy shrub
rose, just before they started to open.
She told me such a magnificent flowering would "exhaust its strength and
kill it".
She was trying to save it from killing its self

Which kind of agrees with what I said. :-) But that's ok, cos Janet
already thinks I'm bonkers.

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On 17 Jul 2012 13:56:25 GMT, wrote:

Baz wrote:
Since when has a rose full of flowers ever been "an eyesore"?!

Right thing to say. They will probably not give you anymore rubbish now
that you have vented your spleen. Well done I say.

Oh, she will. It's normally her husband rather than her, but it's been
one thing after another - they didn't like the compost at the end of the
garden, they think the chickens bring in mice (they don't, they just chase
them out of our garden into hers! Heaven forbid she finds out about the
rats, though!), they got fruit flies in their kitchen last year or the
year before when it was really damp and there were flies everywhere and
we got the blame for that, Nick was once drilling at 9pm to put a tv up
(when we got home from work) and they complained about that, they have
moved the boundary fence back and forth and nearly killed one of our
favourite roses due to it, then when Nick put posts up to grow grapes
and hops on that boundary fence with wires, they complained about that
(even though it was built to stop their child bouncing on his trampoline
and shouting into our garden) ...

And in the meantime, people (not us, afaik) complain at them about them
letting their dogs roam about on the common grass in front of the house
and crap everywhere ...

Vicky, I can see the beginnings of a new "Soap" here! You could write
a script and add new happenings each week. What a dreadful neighbour
to have. I do sympathise. With that sort of person you just can't
win.

Pam in Bristol

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wrote in
:

David Hill wrote:
Try treading the post in full

I did, but you're right, I mis-understood the quoted bit

"cut off every single flower bud (hundreds) on a huge old healthy
shrub rose, just before they started to open.
She told me such a magnificent flowering would "exhaust its strength
and kill it".
She was trying to save it from killing its self

Which kind of agrees with what I said. :-) But that's ok, cos Janet
already thinks I'm bonkers.

We know different, you aren't bonkers.

Baz

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wrote:

Oh, she will. It's normally her husband rather than her, but it's been
one thing after another - they didn't like the compost at the end of the
garden, they think the chickens bring in mice

Her name isn't "Hyacinth," is it?


--
Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

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Gary Woods wrote:
Oh, she will. It's normally her husband rather than her, but it's been
one thing after another - they didn't like the compost at the end of the
garden, they think the chickens bring in mice
Her name isn't "Hyacinth," is it?

Nope, I think it's MentalBatshitCrazyWomanNextDoor.
(Actually, I say that, I think most of the time it's her husband who
complains, then she passes it on)