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The neighbour has a very well kept garden, with a neatly pruned tree and some decorative ivy, both against a wall that defines the end of their property.
Both the tree and the ivy flow up and over the wall, and then spread out to totally cover the roofs of four garages, creating a thick matt of creeper that suckers onto the roof membrane with an accompanying canopy of thick branches that provide a home for multiple families of foxes.
I'm in the process of cutting this back, and will be hiring a chipper from HSS to dispose of the waste.
In future I'll keep it under control by going up on the roof and cutting off everything that comes over the wall in terms of shoots/suckers/etc.
I (quite strongly) think that the neighbour should have extended their careful pruning to what vanished over their wall, but they obviously thought that was out of scope - ok, I'll deal with that.
But once I've done the work and sent the chipper back to HSS I'm tempted to take a fairly direct approach to disposal of the unwanted vegetative advances that the neighbour is making toward our garages.