AIBU. Public flogging for garden taste misdemeanors

People should consider other people before planting intrusive trees especially people who border on heathlands and other nature reserves. E.g. Rhododendron effectively sterilises our natural areas but then you see people near nature reserves actively planting it!

In the 80s there was for a time a trend favoring the types of reeds that thrive in damper soggier parts of gardens where grass doesnt thrive.

Bark mulsh the dark corner and put swings there

Make a "mud kitchen" feature of it for the GKs.

Dark damp areas arent SUPPOSED to look like a neat lush green lawn, but there are plants and animals that thrive in those conditions and for us to thrive we need those damp earthy areas to be "working" and keeping the ecosystems "gut healthy" and keep absorbing carbon for us!

Maybe we need to put ourselves in the position of an old person living alone and unable to afford a little man to cut the grass for them. The "environment" has to be about people as well as wildlife.

Fake grass requires more maintenance and expense than other lawn alternatives! Lets stop pretending that anyone needs fake grass. People get it because they like it not because they have to!

Yes the environment is about people too. Peoples health is directly related to the health of the whole ecosystem: you cant pic n chose to only care for one part of it it is all interconnected, like the systems of the body.

If trees/plants are "our" lungs, mud, marsh & soil is our gut! In recent years marsh/mud/non "lawn" land has been seen as a problem to fix/drain/cover! But muddy marshy soil absorbs carbon! Without it we are screwed!

Garden doesnt HAVE to = green lawn!

Gosh I should have previewed that post. There are some types but I'm sure you get my drift.

I haven't got a fake lawn but am considering it, I may have a bit of a rethink.
What is really driving me mad is my neighbours flipping apple tree dropping rotten apples all over my garden. I loked it up and legally i cannot through them back over to her garden. I have young grandchildren and I don't want them picking them up. Then in the front of my house I have her huge I've that goes right down my fence. I have to sort that out as well. Then at the back of my garden I have huge trees. The branches grow right over my garden shading both my flower beds. I have to pay to get someone to cut them back.
None of these problems are of my making. People should consider other people before planting intrusive trees, plants etc.
And by the way I hate worms with a passion.

And there is plenty of grass around anyway. (Apart from the huge chunks the builders have built on)

That is very tasteful,I dont think my black Ford Fiesta would look quite so fetching
You can paint it downtoearth!
Just think - the possibilities are endless

Unfortunately, my 'meadow' looks more like a weedy patch at the moment but there are some interesting plants coming up.
The idea was to look like this:

Maybe we need to put ourselves in the position of an old person living alone and unable to afford a little man to cut the grass for them. The "environment" has to be about people as well as wildlife.

Plastic grass is the devil's blanketing, as far as I'm concerned. Nothing in the way of animal life can survive beneath it and in hot weather it gets incredibly hot. And how will it look in a year or so when dogs/cats/birds have contributed plenty of excreta? Also - daisies. No daisies!

When I was a kid a child down the road had a meadow garden (or rather their parents only mowed the front) and we LOVED "exploring" the "jungle".

Kids do not need a flat sterile "lawn" to enjoy a garden.

Thanks for joining in on a fun topic. I have to say I've never ever mistaken plastic grass for real grass but, however 'realistic' that's not the point. How much hassle is grass? More importantly birds and insects can't really do anything with plastic grass and there is waaaay too much plastic in the world as it is. Also not sure of the connection with wind chimes. They can be a noise nuisance if you are sensitive but they don't harm nature. Wig is a good analogy. Its a wig for the garden. A bad wig that fools no one and looks ridiculous. Don't want to trim grass once a fortnight - grow meadow flowers and leave well alone.

Hopefully anyone who watched Chris Packham's brilliant documentary on BBC 4 last Monday entitled 'The British Garden: Life & Death on Your Lawn' will be enough to make those tempted to put down artificial turf think twice. Too much wildlife is dependent on the real stuff.

Good job none of us live in Australia then! Plastic grass everywhere!

notanan2 I find your comments very rude to a particular poster.

You do not know their circumstances.

You have managed single handedly to turn a fun thread in to what closely resembles a personal rant!!

I am also finished with this thread.

I also think plastic grass should be banned. It is awful and not good for the wildlife preservation which is very important to our lives also

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/04/growth-in-artificial-lawns-poses-threat-to-british-wildlife-conservationists-warn

Wow! Take me out and shoot me! We have just had artificial grass laid in our tiny courtyard garden. When we moved in a couple of months ago it was paved, overgrown with weeds and looked horrible. We now have a garden that it is a pleasure to look out at, with a few pots around with herbs and plants in (not plastic!) and our dogs can go outside. Rest assured all you haters out there, we have high fences so as not to offend your eyes.

Callistemon
That is very tasteful,I dont think my black Ford Fiesta would look quite so fetching,however I do have a hard plastic paddling pool in blue and shaped like a seashell I am intending use as a receptacle for plants on said grey slate

Yes, I know it is some kind of plastic but it will be there for years and we are saving many birds.

Notanan, don’t see a problem with a mirror in a dark corner as you say the birds won’t have a “run” at it. We recently covered my mums porch in that cling film like stuff with a pattern on it as she kept finding dead birds that had crashed. She got very upset about a baby blackbird but since we covered the porch, no problem. She can still see out but the birds no longer think it’s a fly through.

That's killed this thread for me.

Shame. Was a good one.

I have just seen your comment, notanan of 10.43.51.

My one year old DGD has very sensitive skin and this product was highly recommended.

Maybe if your daughter was less keen on sterilising her environment she wouldnt have these sensitivities?

Unbelievably crass! You can have no idea how or why that child suffers with her skin.

I have seen some very fetching old cars stylishly arranged as garden ornaments ….

gonegirl organisations like The Good Gym do gardening for free for people who physically cant but would benefit therapeutically from a garden.

There are other schemes whereby you can exchange free gardening for people growing food they can take in part of your garden

Lemongrove,Callistemon
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Yes a couple of forkandles and a few empty gin bottles,if my old banger fails MOT next week might have to make a feature of that as well

Yeah I think waterfeatures are a really unpleasant sound. And as you say sound nothing like natural water, but they dont usually carry quite as far as windchime noise does.

I quite like the sound of neighbours chattering/laughing but am prob odd in that respect