Waking up today to find a large branch from my magnolia tree in the middle of the lawn. Then looking up to see that it hadn't been blown down by the wind but hacked off mid branch. There are several branches like this because my neighbour chose to slice off everything hanging over his side of the boundary fence (his legal right) I already said I would do it, he only had to say when it would be convenient to him. But, he decided to go ahead on his own (his legal right) and butcher a beautiful, healthy tree. I would have done a good job, cleaned up after myself, protected his property and not butchered my tree. It made me sad to cut up the fallen branch laden with buds and stuff it into the recycling bin. Technically he was supposed to return all the cut branches to me but I'm glad he broke the law in that respect.
On the plus side, the branches remaining are laden with buds so there should still be a lot of flowers come spring.
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