Warning: Neighbour bites

There is a lot of excavation work happening at our house. Who knew that excavating a courtyard could produce MOUNTAINS of dirt?! Most of the dirt is being re-directed around our yard to even it out.

Along with the excavation a few of our plants need to be relocated away from the building works. We have potted up three camellias and a couple of roses. Today I went to site to direct where to re-plant the camellias (and hope they survive the upheaval). We decided to remove a Ginger plant from near our boundary to insert the camellias as we are slowly building a Camellia hedge which should look fabulous when in flower.

Guess who is freaking out about the ginger plant being removed?

Street cancer strikes again.

This plant was just below shoulder height at its tallest and about 1.5 metres diameter. It was one plant in from our boundary and about to be replaced by the camellias above. Street cancer does the following:

1. Stands at the boundary shouting at the person who is digging out the plant - "You can't do that, I'm calling the council". Apparently being quite abrasive.
2. Then calls me to say "You should've told me if you were removing that screening plant".
3. She told me she had sent a voicemail and an email on the subject.

I may have lost my temper a little. She has form in attempting to intimidate workers at my place and she has been actively dissing our proposed works to all and sundry so I was not in the mood for conciliation.

I told her that I can remove plants on my property as I wish and without interference from her. Further I told her that if she took the time to call the site manager per our agreed process she would've found out that the plant would be replaced by mature camellias. She started with "but but but..." at which point I said "No, this time you will listen to me. I am disappointed that the only time you call me is to complain about inane issues that don't concern you."

At this point she hung up.

I checked my phone for voicemail and emails. None to be found. I feel good that I've stood up to her. Let's see if her husband calls. I hope he does because Firegazer will have fun with that one.

She freaks out about us removing 'screening plants' from our side of the fence. Guess how many 'screening plants' she has planted? None. Not a single plant.

The woman is completely unhinged.

Edited 7 october: I spoke with the site manager today. Apparently she also sent Workcover around this week. What a complete nutter.