Sue neighbor for highly invasive plants?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ivy is invasive? I love ivy. People actually grow it indoors for its beauty.

Absolutely. English Ivy spreads, chokes trees, and damages houses when it climbs up a house. I am constantly pulling it out when it comes over from my neighbors yard.

[Anonymous]

What did they say when you talked to them about it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tell me about it. My neighbor has a forest of bamboo...

I might be your neighbor. I’m not the one that planted it — I don’t want it either.

PP here. My current neighbor didn't plant it either. A former owner did it about 25 yrs ago. What a dreadful invasive thing to plant. Sorry you're having to deal with it, too!

[Anonymous]

If you are in Fairfax County , can report to county for running bamboo and neighbor will get fined.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ivy is invasive? I love ivy. People actually grow it indoors for its beauty.

Are you talking about English Ivy? It's horrible and destroys everything it touches. And it's not beautiful.

https://www.invasive.org/alien/pubs/midatlantic/hehe.htm

[Anonymous]

You could sue your neighbor but its anyone's guess if you would win.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you tried talking to her first, without jumping to a lawsuit?

No, that would be too reasonable for DCUM

[Anonymous]

Are you sure 💯 sure of the type of plant (have had it tested?) to be sure it’s not other Ivy that people grow that looks similar to English?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP
A previous tenant planted milkweed, wisteria, morning glory and sorghum in our small yard. I appreciate their intention, but we’re in a condo and I’m constantly hacking it back, as are our fence mates. The milkweed is especially difficult. The space is too small for it. We do have other native pollinator plantings too. Sometimes invasives come from elsewhere.

I’d not relish Italian arum either, but it’s your lot. I don’t think you can sue. But you can bag it carefully so no one else has to deal/spread around the neighborhood more.

Don’t cut the milkweed, pull it. And as a northern grower I never knew sorghum was invasive. I just grow it because I thought it would be fun to eat, and the few seedlings have been easy to pull.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tell me about it. My neighbor has a forest of bamboo...

I might be your neighbor. I’m not the one that planted it — I don’t want it either.

PP here. My current neighbor didn't plant it either. A former owner did it about 25 yrs ago. What a dreadful invasive thing to plant. Sorry you're having to deal with it, too!

You know you can cook bamboo right?? Really good for you too!

[Anonymous]

Take the money you’d spend on a lawyer and install a barrier in the soil between your yards. It won’t fully prevent the problem but it will cut down on the nuisance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are in Fairfax County , can report to county for running bamboo and neighbor will get fined.

They won’t. We tried.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could sue your neighbor but its anyone's guess if you would win.

+1

Let us know how that works out OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP
A previous tenant planted milkweed, wisteria, morning glory and sorghum in our small yard. I appreciate their intention, but we’re in a condo and I’m constantly hacking it back, as are our fence mates. The milkweed is especially difficult. The space is too small for it. We do have other native pollinator plantings too. Sometimes invasives come from elsewhere.

I’d not relish Italian arum either, but it’s your lot. I don’t think you can sue. But you can bag it carefully so no one else has to deal/spread around the neighborhood more.

Don’t cut the milkweed, pull it. And as a northern grower I never knew sorghum was invasive. I just grow it because I thought it would be fun to eat, and the few seedlings have been easy to pull. [/quote

I pull it. Need to dig out the root though. It’s traveled quite far.

It’s not invasive, but the seeds scatter. I’ve managed to cull it by not allowing it to go to seed. It took an extra season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you tried talking to her first, without jumping to a lawsuit?

No, that would be too reasonable for DCUM