They're now 4 times as high as the pic?? That's taking the piss!

at least 4 times as high!

it really is isn't it?

I can't believe how light the garden looks in that pic...    Its made me realise how dark it is now

Well we have in our garden an  ash tree,it's actually my  upstairs neigbours,we are in four in a block cottage flats.This tree is about ten feet from the house,it was small years ago,I used to climb it when I was young.I'm 55 now the tree must be at least 70 .It's huge now the trunk is ...well ya couldn't hug it and feel your fingers connecting.My neighbour is nearly 80 now and wouldn't mind getting rid,however she is an owner occupier and it would cost her.However when our block gets renovated she and me hopes the council will chop it down.It's roots are defo under the house etc,it's pushed the slabs up in the path etc and when I  dig the garden  it's bleedin' roots are everywhere.

Big trees don't belong in small gardens.Oh and it's not a rare species ,mountain ash are not particularly pretty trees either.

http://www.anr.msu.edu/robertsd/ash/ashtree_id.html

Here's the bugger..

oooh Katty...    I can see your dilemma...  

at least you share your tree misery!   My only ally used to live behind my house... so the trees were backing onto her garden..     her garden was affected worse than mine.   But she's moved now, and the new people seem to be block paving it all. 

oh I know that tree...   

in fact..     That looks suspciously like the weed that (cos I was laid up with a trapped nerve for 18 months) has got big enough to have developed bark, that is now propping up our shed!

Blimey..    think that had better go whilst we still can! 

Ohh Ditty..that's taking the piss with those leylandii! At least   "My" tree took  decades to get to the annoying stage.

it is isn't it..  

I will take up to date pics tomorrow and post them...   you will see the difference in how little light the garden now gets

Ditty it casts seeds all over the shop,and if they get a stronghold they can grow pretty quick .I pull up hundreds of seedlings at the first few leaves stage every year.

There is a way to kill them but you need to be able to get to the trunk if you take off about 5 or 6 inch of bark all the way round the trunk they will die but they will still be there blocking your light even if they are dead. What you need to do is somehow make it in the neighbours best intrests to cut them down.

We gwt them round here....I get loads of the shoots in my garden which I usually pull out by the root while they are small enough to....

Next doot but one didn;y pull up a shoot in her garden and now destroying the fence between her and her neighbour is a tree thats getting on for about house height!

she does get them lobbed every 5 or 6 years... like in the photo..     so I am thinking that if the tree surgeons comes to lob them and one or two of them are dead then he may advise her to get shot of the two dead ones altogether... 

the bark thing may be doable...    I could climb up onto our oil tank...  hubby has a machete.... 

If you can get close to it take a manual hand drill bore a hole in it, inject round up into the hole then plug hole with a bit of putty and rub with dirt....

Holy Shit!!

That bugger is getting dug out tomorrow!!!   

Or Aphids kill them so find something to attract aphids to them....

Now this is the kind of covert thing I was looking for...    

will it work...  will it...  will it...   

cos I can do this..     we have a cordless power drill (well MrD does...  I am sure he won't mind me borrowing it)..   I have round up....    no putty, but do have blue tak or even better, I have a caulking gun!

I have tend to have plenty of aphids in my garden...    they seem to prefer my plants to the leylandii...     or maybe its just cos thats where the ants put them

Sheeeeeet forgot the ninja suit, that is a must when going covert....

Ditty if it's covering the ground it's probably "Ground elder" Ash is a straight up tree. No comfort, but ground elder is a bugger to get rid of..

I have ground elder Katty..     I dug it all out by hand last time, but cos I was off my legs last year its back...    I have that to deal with too.

but the weed with bark is a straight up job..    I thought it was a hawthorn or something that had seeded...     but I recognise it from the link you put up... I am almost certain its the ash

I may enlist the girl to assist in the operation..   if so, I will get her to ninja up...   

I will do the filming.. 

http://www.gardenorganic.org.u...tion/weed.php?id=120

It can take over gardens if you don't tackle it.

Ah right Ditty,ash can grow quick as a seedling,miss one in your hedge etc it can be a few feet in a year or two with a strong root and stem.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

I knew I'd get pulled on that one!

Its a gurka's kukri  (apparently...  I had to ask him)..     I called it a souvenir but he says its not its a real one from when he was in the TA... 

(doesn't really answer his ongoing attachment to it does it?)

yep...  that sounds like it... 

I have had a half hearted tug on it a couple of times and its not budging...    

that may have to get sawn off & glycowotsited... 

A few years ago we uprooted 14 Leylandi at the bottom of our garden. The people backing on to us went berserk - a long, long story. We had erected a small fence in front of OUR trees because the bottom of them were so bare ................a few years later these people moved in at the back of us and assumed that this little fence was our boundary and that the Leylandi was theirs .............all too long and boring to go into but - they really got very nasty until we provided evidence to prove that they were wrong! 

Neighbours can be a bloody nightmare!

I have had a half hearted tug on it a couple of times and its not budging...    

that may have to get sawn off & glycowotsited..

Poor Mr Ditty!  ...no seriously ,Ash seeds get tough quickly,get them at a few inches,no problem to pull them up,if they are more than that they have a tough stem ,I've had to dig them/cut them at four inches...oooer..

It's mental Soozy... well some neighbours are.

Trees and boundries are the most common thing neighbours fall out over unless 1 of them has a taste for loud music that is.

He'd think it was Christmas Katty 

..I'd loved to have seen their faces when they were proved wrong....

Har har! oh well hope you can think of summat to get rid....the trees that is, not Mr.Ditty.

Bloody hell I'd have taken the Leylandi and shoved it up their backsides so hard their ears would have been sprouting green hair!

I can't believe I am sitting here considering the hows & wheres of purchasing an air rifle and copper bullets 

Imagines the "leylandii forum" members all looking like this.. armed with copper bullets..

Dittty has just joined!

In some neighbour disputes I doubt the rifle would be used on the tree

Dirtypettytreekillingthing