Letters to the Editor
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LW has some gentrifying guilt of her own, maybe
It's one thing to refuse to "let go" a wrong done to YOU. It's another thing to go on an unasked for crusade. The LW's neighbor has resisted offers of help from her; it's unlikely that this neighbor will be grateful for the LW pouring bleach on her plants. (By the way, people may be making too much of the fact that the plants are oleander...sometimes LWs change certain details to maintain anonymity. If not, oleander is poisonous, we get it, let's move on.)
I wonder if the LW feels guilty about her role in the neighborhood's changing demographic and wants to differentiate herself from the nosy, dissaproving neighbor who plants flowers on other people's lawns! Getting involved in someone else's yard is getting involved in someone else's yard. If the neighbor asks for help, help her. But there is nothing for YOU to let go of.