A grandmother from Kent is putting her foot down over ‘unbearable’ bindweed and brambles which are engulfing her garden.

Angie Ryan, 60, says the rapidly growing vegetation is creeping over her fence like a ‘huge blanket’.

No matter how much she hacks away at it, it keeps coming back and is pushing her fence over and ‘strangling’ her flowers, including a rose planted in memory of her dad.

Angie, who lives with her 80-year-old mother in Tunbridge Wells, has been calling her housing association since June 3 to put a stop to the invading vegetation.

But she says the Hyde Group housing association are sitting on their hands and are leaving her to deal with the problem.

She told the Kent and Sussex Courier: ‘I have no idea why they aren’t coming out. I think they see my number come up on the phone and ignore it. The bindweed comes up like a huge blanket – coming up and over.

‘You can see it moving forward and forward. I do what I can to keep it tidy but I hope now we have taken things further, that we will see something done and have an end to this nightmare once and for all.’

Angie says the vegetation is coming from a strip of land between her house and some new homes.

She’s dubbed the patch ‘the void’ and says it has become a ‘dumping ground’ for junk including old sofas.

Angie fell off her wall and into a passage by her house as she tried to cut the weeds, but says ‘only her pride’ was hurt.

Yesterday morning she said someone had been sent to cut the vegetation but added that its ‘not been done to a satisfactory level’.

Hyde’s Head of Housing for Estate Services, Jane Cox, told Metro.co.uk: ‘I’d like to apologise to Mrs Ryan for any inconvenience caused. This area is a no man’s-land between two houses.

‘Therefore, we don’t carry out routine, regular grounds maintenance. We clear the area when we are made aware that it needs clearing.

‘However, I can confirm that we did clear it on 18 August. In future we will keep an eye on it to ensure that the bindweed and brambles don’t get out of control.’

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