I've lived in the mountains for 29 years. I've had a beautiful view from my livingroom window of the ocean and La Jolla. It was a WOW factor when you entered the home. My neighbor has let a fast growing sucker plant grow wild and has compleatly blocked my view. I'm getting ready to sell and my agent say's this will lower the value somewhat. I had talked to her about it when it was smaller and she said she would have her gardner trim it. Never happened. She is rarely home so I left her a note (nice) with a picture so she would see how it blocked my view. No response. One day when she came home from work I walked down to her house and knocked on the door but she didn't answer.Few months go by and I leave another note with an updated picture. Still no response. The plant just keeps growing taller (must be 15") and spreading...ugh. This isn't a plant that she planted, it grows wild. It stinks and ants love it! When it starts to grow in my yard I cut it out. What can I do? Is there a law?
2007-06-24 04:11:03 · 5 answers · asked by Yvonne 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
The plant is 15+ feet not inches, sorry about that! Some great answers and I've done most of them. I wish I could show you a picture. I just hope I can get her to understand before I put the house on the market (sometime in August). Thanks for your input.
2007-06-24 07:06:19 · update #1
If you are in an unincorporated area, there may be nothing you can do to force her to cut the plant.
Have you offered to pay for removing the plant, or remove it yourself? If it doesn't block her view, she has no incentive to remove it.
2007-06-24 04:22:57 · answer #1 · answered by OrakTheBold 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put on black pants, shirt and mask. Sneak over in the middle of the night and poor a gallon of gas around the base of the plant. It will die.
You didn't hear this from me!
2007-06-24 04:19:17 · answer #2 · answered by psychomagnit 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
15" or 15 feet? If it's only 15", I would just go over there at night and pull it up out of the ground! If it's 15 FEET, then I might still go over there at night and see if I couldn't get it removed myself, as long as it is dark enough. Hey, she SAID she'd have her gardener take care of it and hasn't, you could just claim to have told her gardener yourself and they must have taken care of it! ;)
2007-06-24 05:34:50 · answer #3 · answered by Brenda T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spray weed killer on the plant, preferably when you are out doing work on your own property. With the right weed killer, it will die, and you will have your view back.
2007-06-24 04:53:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
move
2007-06-24 05:37:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋