Open plan garden ... neighbour driving on it
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Hi
I live on a modern open plan estate, where my garden borders the next door neighbour's driveway. The drives are wide enough to fit two cars on side to side (and are long enough to fit two cars front to back). Unfortunately, they have a habit of parking as close as possible to my garden so that they have to walk all over it to get out of the car. Quite often, they will actually park on the grass
I had some edging stones at the bottom that they have damaged by reversing and turning, so that their front wheels went completely over the garden and cracked the stones in half.
I've been patient but have now had enough. I've discussed this with them before, but led to them ignoring me, so any further discussions would be a waste of time. I don't care about that anymore, just want to stop them driving and walking on my garden.
I'm limited to it being open plan (so no wall), but would really like to put a barrier of some kind in place, that can't be easily damaged by them (accidentally or on purpose!). Anyone have any ideas?
I live on a modern open plan estate, where my garden borders the next door neighbour's driveway. The drives are wide enough to fit two cars on side to side (and are long enough to fit two cars front to back). Unfortunately, they have a habit of parking as close as possible to my garden so that they have to walk all over it to get out of the car. Quite often, they will actually park on the grass
I had some edging stones at the bottom that they have damaged by reversing and turning, so that their front wheels went completely over the garden and cracked the stones in half.
I've been patient but have now had enough. I've discussed this with them before, but led to them ignoring me, so any further discussions would be a waste of time. I don't care about that anymore, just want to stop them driving and walking on my garden.
I'm limited to it being open plan (so no wall), but would really like to put a barrier of some kind in place, that can't be easily damaged by them (accidentally or on purpose!). Anyone have any ideas?
Put some sort of edging there, better still a raised flower bed ? doesn't need to be tall have a look at this stuff: http://search.diy.com/search#w=edging&asug=
Odie said:
Drainage ditch, a good foot or so deep and a good foot+ wide at the offending edge of the garden.
Or put a flower bed in, lots of horse manure.
Frankly, do both. Drainage ditch, then stretch a damp proof membrane over the top and plant some pansies in half an inch of dirt. That'll learn them.Or put a flower bed in, lots of horse manure.
dibbers006 said:
To avoid the conflict that could arise.
Why not repeatedly saturate the area, over and over till it is a quagmire. Stepping into a mud bath in the dark is enough to put them off.
You can eventually (like spraying cats when they are naughty) re-train them and then you are free to 'sort out that drainage problem' with a raised, gravel drained, rockery or something.
Anything else is just asking for issues.
This is very sensible but clearly not as fun. Why not repeatedly saturate the area, over and over till it is a quagmire. Stepping into a mud bath in the dark is enough to put them off.
You can eventually (like spraying cats when they are naughty) re-train them and then you are free to 'sort out that drainage problem' with a raised, gravel drained, rockery or something.
Anything else is just asking for issues.
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