Key legal question
Whether the contractual planting restriction also covered trees standing on the adjoining parcel and their overhanging branches
Extracted holding
No. On objective contractual interpretation, the restriction applied only to plants on the designated burdened area, not to trees on the adjoining parcel merely overhanging it.
Extracted reasoning
The wording and title of the agreement pointed to plants growing on the defined plot; the contract did not indicate any duty to demand trimming from a third-party owner or to impose a bilateral cap-and-trim obligation for trees not on the burdened parcel.