When the lawn police were last here, after my son had trimmed everything in our yard to six feet in height, I pointed out the neighbor-complainants hedge behind their patio which reached the patio roof to give them privacy from their neighbors´ pool. Although it seemed to catch the lawn police off guard... long pause.. there was no indication of any shame.

[The straightline arrows indicate the location of each ´offending´ hedge.]

Our filbert trees that were part of the hedge have not shown any signs of coming back, neither male nor female ones..