'Guerilla warflowers': Guy gets payback by scattering thousands of wildflower seeds on their neighbor's lawn after she reports them to the HOA for having an ugly yard

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    Font - Posted by u/RasonH 4 hours ago Neighbour is nosy, complains about us and hates our garden, and I kinda had enough.
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    Font - Short backstory: me (33m) and my chronically ill partner (39f) live in a rental with only one neighbour (92f). And our neighbour hates how our front and backyard looks. Other than that, there is nothing she can complain about, as we really take to ourselves and hardly make any sound. My partner has a
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    Font - chronic affliction which makes me her primary caregiver, so most of the time she is in bed and I am either working or trying to keep the house tidy (which is quite a bit of work with 5 cats and taking care of 1 adult).
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    Font - Neighbour has already filed a complaint with the homeowners company about us concerning the cat-cage I build myself in our backyard. It is of NO nuisance to her, other than she thinks it is ugly. She can only see it when she is in her bedroom, but clearly it was
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    Font - enough. How do I know? She was making the call with the backdoor open as I was in the yard, so I could here it word by word. Fun fact: it was AFTER closing hours. She actually called the emergency line and took over 45 minutes of time, crafting this whole story
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    Font - about past neighbours being terrible, and how we are probably the same, etc etc. The company never notified us, I could hear the person on the other side (the phone was on speaker) saying that the history they had with her was getting a bit out of control.
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    Font - Another fun fact: in our face she is all 'you are so kind and good people' etc etc. SO. We just don't have a lot of time to keep up with our front-yard. I totally get it is annoying if you get weeds in your yard due to your neighbour neglecting theirs. So I
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    Font - try. But it is not enough for her. Far from. We do however simply like how it looks and like having butterflies and bees in our yards. Yesterday another knock on the backdoor (I was in the backyard and she came to the fence), and
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    Font - another rain of complaints, but also just judgey comments and remarks. I didn't argue, I just proceeded to weed out the stuff up front that was closest to her front- yard. But at this point I had enough. A friend of mine was a professional gardener for years.
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    Font - My initial ask was: 'Dude, I need something that kis weeds, and it has to be so strong NOTHING will ever grow there again!', because my plan was to take care of a bit of our own, but accidentally spray some in hers too. That's how done I was with it. However, my partner
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    Font - pointed out that those chemicals were probably so strong it would also hurt bugs and smaller animals and hurt the diversity we were trying to create. Fair point, so I let the idea go and opted to just mow the grass and clean up. Until 30 minutes ago.
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    Font - My brain shifted the other way. What if I choose not to exterminate her garden, but instead cover it in wild flowers? We still have loads of grass and flower seeds left, and this week is humid and warm and the soil is living its best life at this moment.
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    Font - I hope my neighbour likes wild flowers, because she is about to have a whoooooole lot of 'em.
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    Font - Rock_Lizard Mint. 319 +2.3 hr. ago Reply Share RasonH OP 3 hr. ago Ooow, free herbs, nice one! I was thinking throwing in some of our wild strawberry, that stuff spreads like wildfire haha.
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    Facial expression - Darcy-Pennell. 47 min. ago Look up "aggressive native plants (your area)" and sow that in her yard
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    Font - bordemstirs 23 min. ago Find a native mint. Pollinators love it, it's pretty, useful and smells great. Also maybe a privacy fence.
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    Font - iscream4eyecream. 33 min. ago And then make sure to complain about all of her weeds every chance you get
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    Rectangle - DallasSherier 36 min. ago Go for the final solution. Bamboo. You're welcome.
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    Font - OblongAndKneeless +3. just now Wild onion is nearly impossible to get rid of. The only way we got rid of it was letting the moss grow over it and smother it. And it smells.
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    Human body - Ocean27312 hr. ago Red basil. My mother planted some in the 70's and we still find it popping up every year.
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    Font - iamhyperhyena 1 hr. ago Mint grows so dang fast that we had to mow the huge bush of ours we had and it's still spreading. Insane. At least now we have infinite mint
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    Font - maDAMN-Pink just now Guerilla warflowers.
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