Cutting of vegetation, setting of nails, damage to property

The Florida Statute is worded very cleverly:

>This subsection does not give authority to registrants, subordinates, agents, or employees to destroy, injure, damage, or move any physical improvements on lands of another without the written permission of the landowner.

Note the words "physical improvement" ... there is some defense here in that you could claim the cutting of overgrowth, or setting nails, or digging holes, did not damage an "improvement" to the property. But I would stay away from "ornamental hedges", and the like.