Texas Gardening: advice please, 1 by

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I have a next door neighbor that let a chinaberry grow up in their yard, next to the fence line. A branch broke out of it and killed a well established loquat tree in my yard.

Next the neighbor, after finally felling the chinaberry, let a hackberry grow up in that spot. When he fell it finally he dropped it into a well established, rather expensive hibiscus. It has never come back. (Did I mention all the bugs in his hackberry that got into all the plants in my front yard that day and stayed...)

Next he let a hackberry grow up into my chainlink fence. I asked him several times if he wouldn't rather let the oak in my yard have that (my) space (hint hint hint); he said, ''Nooo." The tree bent my fence and mangled the chainlink.

He's since put up a privacy fence leaving about 10" in between the 2 fences. Guess who gets to look at the weeds that grow in that area.

Then when the city told them they had to do something about the weeds I found her in my yard spraying a soil sterilant along the fence line and well into my yard...over by the hibiscus that won't come back out....

I think you did right. I wish I had said more starting years earlier.