I didn’t succeed in persuasion.
Neighbour intervened “It’s my property and I’m
planting these on it”... Proceeded to instal 8” camellias at the wall’s base, right on the boundary.
I don’t have to live with it, in that sense no skin off my nose - but some first-time house owners have got a salutary lesson in neighbourhood dynamics. They had more control of their own environment in a unit, but felt they didn’t, so bought a house... Next, their open outlook over the yard next door is being rubber-stamped for a subdivision at present.