Hmmmph!

[LoftyLottie]

This is a rant. My neighbour has sprayed his garden with a noxious chemical weedkiller and killed off some of my beloved foxgloves and poppies!! Not expensive plants, but plants I love.

So the question is "Can I spray him with Roundup?" Grrrrrr!

[redcrx]

no, but you can cut his buds off :)

[LoftyLottie]

LOL Red. I hope the local squirrells get his nuts as well!!

[madboutcats]

wish i could send you some of my mums foxgloves, they are just begining to flower along with the lupins i planted last year.xx

[Robinia]

I'd be livid too Lottie & I think you should spray him with Eau de Skunk!
I had a very big shrub removed the year before last & the space has filled with self seeded foxgloves which have just started to open - it looks lovely. I threw some poppy seeds down after the shrub came out but they didn't grow... maybe in 20/30/40 years time when someone else digs the garden they'll all appear!

was it a legal chemical he used btw?

[LoftyLottie]

Quite honestly, Robinia, I doubt it was legal for public sale, more likely something one of his agricultural pals got for him. I use roundup ( carefully) on ground elder, which is what he has sprayed it on. When I use roundup the ground elder dies far more slowly than his, which has gone brown and died in less than a week.

I had planned this bit of garden carefully and packed it with spring bulbs of various sorts and vinca minor of varying colours, and then backed it with transplanted foxgloves from my own garden. The poppies were the result of my turning over earth that had not been used for years!

Two years ago the same neighbour sprayed his front garden and virtually killed part of my hedge and one of my pyracanthas which cover the front of my house!! Fortunately, the hedge recovered and even the pyracantha fought back and has produced new growth.

He probably thinks my foxgloves, etc. are weeds and it doesn't matter. Actually I am quite upset. I rarely see him to talk to, but if I do I will probably let him know what I think of his damn spray!!

Oh, I have just produced another rant!

[Robinia]

There'd be no probably about it if it was my plants Lottie, I'd have to have a firm word & ask him in no uncertain terms would he please not use it again. Someone near to me used an illegal lawn weed killer on his front garden ('cos it came free I expect) but he didn't dilute it properly & his whole lawn died & nothing could be planted for a very long time...how on earth it didn't seep through to his neighbour's immaculate garden I'll never know.