A woman has been left gobsmacked after her ‘entitled’ neighbour ordered her to dig up all of her plants for a wild reason.
She explained how she bought a house last year and has spent an entire year renovating it with an aim to move into it this summer.
Luckily, she stayed on schedule and moved in last month – and set about adding the final touches to her home including planting flowers in her front garden.
However, this sparked an unexpected argument with her neighbour, who hates the flowers she has chosen to plant.
She said on Reddit: “Up until now, we’ve had, or thought we had, a good relationship with the neighbour on the side of our house whose driveway is next to our house. We even bought them a gift basket when we closed on the house.
“Last week, we planted small compacta hollies to create a tiny hedge in our front garden that is well within our own property line, not even the edge of the property line.
“Karen and her husband decide to come out today to curse us out and name calling us (b****, witch, s****y neighbour, telling us to f*** ourselves, etc) for planting the hollies in our garden as it interferes with them opening their car door into our garden, walking well inside our garden to get in and out of their car.”
The neighbour claim the plants have been making their “lives miserable” and are causing a “dangerous tripping hazard” for them on a daily basis.
She added: “I am beyond myself at how people like this exists, the entitlement and unreasonableness. Originally we wanted to add height to the garden when we first purchased it but Karen told us not to because they need to open their car door.
“We decided to be nice neighbours to keep peace so we didn’t. Now few months later we moved in, planted small compacta holly bushes around the garden, Karen said we are the worse neighbours ever and hope all our plants die.
“Even went as far as threatening us, stating that we will be miserable living here. like seriously.”
Confused, the woman has not idea why her 69-year-old neighbour would react in this way to some pretty plants – prompting her to ask Reddit users whether she’s in the wrong.
She added: “She demands we remove all the bushes along the side of our garden because they need to step into our garden to open their car doors to get in and out.
“Her screaming got so bad that even our nice neighbour from across the street came to defend us and try to deescalate the situation, calming her down.
“Of course she yelled at him to leave and mind his own business because she’s ‘been living on the block for 30 years’.”
While most users shared their shock over the situation, others urged her to install a fence and cameras to protect her property from her “crazy neighbours”.
Commenting on her post, one user said: “With this information in mind I’d be building a fence, specifically to inconvenience the awful neighbours.”
Another user added: “Cameras – likely they will poison the plants. Pink Flamingos lined up in the garden looking at them. Bonus points if you put glow-in-the-dark googly eyes on them.”
A third user said: “Time for a cute picket fence or landscape boulders on the property line.”