This morning while I was at work my girlfriend got a visit from our management
company's gardener. Basically about two months ago I planted a Laburnum Tree
out the front (on my side). Now if enough seeds from this tree are eaten they will
make you very sick, with that in mind I kept the little warning tag on the tree.
Our neighbors were away when I planted this tree and only returned last week,
the gardener called to ask us to uproot the tree as 'somebody' had sent an
e-mail to the management company to complain that we had planted a toxic
tree in our garden. Our front garden is open plan with the street but we own our
little patch and as far as I'm concerned I can plant what I like there.
The thing is that if the guy had just asked me if I could move it I probably
would have obliged, I don't like the president it sets if I move it now.
Incidentally my girlfriend called to the local garden center to enquire on how nasty
the seeds are and was told that daffodils are more toxic (which the neighbor has as see of). They have offered to exchange the tree if we want but I kinda want to keep it.
The neighbors have cited that they have two children to protect (I have a son) but I
would have thought that every child should know not to eat berries and the like from the ground. I know I was and my son knows better than that.
The management cut the grass and weed the front of the house but it is still my property I fail to see how they could force me to take the tree out.
It's not as if I've planted mandrake or something really nasty.
company's gardener. Basically about two months ago I planted a Laburnum Tree
out the front (on my side). Now if enough seeds from this tree are eaten they will
make you very sick, with that in mind I kept the little warning tag on the tree.
Our neighbors were away when I planted this tree and only returned last week,
the gardener called to ask us to uproot the tree as 'somebody' had sent an
e-mail to the management company to complain that we had planted a toxic
tree in our garden. Our front garden is open plan with the street but we own our
little patch and as far as I'm concerned I can plant what I like there.
The thing is that if the guy had just asked me if I could move it I probably
would have obliged, I don't like the president it sets if I move it now.
Incidentally my girlfriend called to the local garden center to enquire on how nasty
the seeds are and was told that daffodils are more toxic (which the neighbor has as see of). They have offered to exchange the tree if we want but I kinda want to keep it.
The neighbors have cited that they have two children to protect (I have a son) but I
would have thought that every child should know not to eat berries and the like from the ground. I know I was and my son knows better than that.
The management cut the grass and weed the front of the house but it is still my property I fail to see how they could force me to take the tree out.
It's not as if I've planted mandrake or something really nasty.