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10ft tall all down the driveway, so the potential new neighbors can't sit there and creep on me on their porch while i'm watering my plants in the drive, and as a bonus it'll keep their tree's stupid leaves in their yard where they belong
you can't even say i'm becoming a suburbanite, the town i live in is rural 
it's not my fault when these two huge oak trees next door just blast leaves onto my driveway and it's suddenly a huge My Problem
the previous owners made the house and garage connect so there's nowhere for it all to fucking go so I have to just blast it out of the driveway but the Lying Machine said if I just blast it back into the neighbor's yard they could theoretically blame me for illegal dumping
they are giving you free compost
They are giving you free mulch. Buy a leaf mulcher. Put it on your beds. Yeehaw.
Sending it into your neighbor's yard is what we call in Bird Law, a dick move. Sending it into the road is actually illegal.
My recommendation is to plant some native shrubs as a windbreak along the sides of your driveway, which will catch most of the leaves and keep them off the drive.
But they're leaves from THEIR trees! why's it have to be my fault for being, like, down wind of them
What do you mean, their trees? Trees belong to everyone and to themselves. You benefit from the shade and the oxygen, they beautify your life.
Don't worry so much about imaginary concepts like property and fault. Plants don't care about property lines. Maybe plant some more trees and then they can drop leaves on some ground you don't consider yours.
The trees are just living. Does your HOA make you clean up or something? Idk where you live so I can't recommend specific species, but you could totally just replace your lawn with cool native plants and just stop worrying about where leaves are and aren't.
the shade actively denies my container plants like 4 hours of sunlight