I've had to look up Clematis wilt, I'd never heard of it, the pictures don't look anything like what has happened to mine. I'd like to think that it wasn't vandalism but the fact that I saw the same person cutting holes in my ivy and found that the top had been chopped off my willow trellis just before this happened, leads me to the conclusion that it was.
Pheno, the same neighbour was very keen previously to insist to other neighbours that the other fences bordering her garden weren't hers so I don't think that would be a problem. I've looked into fence ownership previously (for someone else), it's very difficult to prove ownership either way and the commonly held views that it depends on which side of the property it's on or which side the posts are on are myths. I've already had a trellis on that fence for twenty years or so, the ivy and clematis have covered it for much of that time. This problem has only arisen since the neighbour in question decided to fall out with me, not actually about anything I'd done.
