Frillylily said:Sue, I don't think it is drift, in the photo it looks like there is solid privacy fencing between the yards. If so, his bush is suffering from something affecting it through the soil.
When I click on the image I get a smaller picture rather than larger, so it's hard to see, but in the thumbnail in the post it looks like a solid fence at the far end, and a semi-see-through "picket" type fence down the right hand side. It might be an illusion but it looks as though one can see the building through the one on the right. Is that the fence in question, or the one along the bottom? Certainly would agree that where the fence is completely solid it wouldn't likely be accidental aerial drift.
Edit: Oops, cross-posted. If the clippings can blow through the fence onto the childrens' play equipment then it would seem likely that herbicide drift could come through in the opposite direction?