How your landscape affects the neighborhood's property values is important. But your approach to landscape design and maintenance must also include some basic good manners. You could call it applying the Golden Rule. It's the ceaseless, whining roar of a lawn mower. Electric hedge trimmer.
Neighbors expect that kind of noise.
Sometimes, they make just as much. Nonetheless, sound can become a problem, van der Hoeven said, when a neighborhood contains both early birds and night owls. The scope of this problem builds every year as the growing season brings lengthening days and rising temperatures. For example, you may prefer mowing in the cool, clear air that precedes dawn, mere feet from your sleeping neighbor's bedroom. If yard care can even appear to affect a neighbor's property, bad feelings may result.