AIBU. Public flogging for garden taste misdemeanors

Sorry, last post interrupted by small grandson wanting to play football on the artificial lawn. I was going to say that I don't feel the need to clean it any more than I would a natural lawn.

Here's another problem with it: when you move to a house with artificial grass, there is no good way to restore the garden!

It can't be recycled. It wont break down like wood decking will (although plastic decking is more and more popular, suppose at least plastic decking is often made out of recycled plastic so thats something). There is no real second hand market for artificial grass like there is for paving.

You have to landfill it! Knowing it will still be there in hundreds of years.

It's like the asbestos of gardens.

I wouldn't ever have artificial grass as the real thing is so much better and natural. So many of our neighbours have paved their front gardens but I still have grass, a beech hedge and a small area unmown. Wildlife needs all the help it can get these days.

I have plastic bay trees by my front door ? The sun never reaches there and that’s why I put plastic there. Real plants everywhere else though.

Although I don't have any I think fake grass could be quite environmentally friendly in that it doesn't require much maintenance (lawnmowers etc.) that use energy or chemicals to fertilise it plus water to keep it hydrated. Also I thought it helped prevent flooding as it drains through to the water table rather than running off (as in paving). I still prefer my real lawn though - weeds and all!

Once again, the alternatives to a high maintenance grass lawn to not begin and end at plastic grass! There are LOTS of eco friendly alternatives. Plastic grass is not one of them

And since so many people vacum theirs (and even chuck disinfectant through it to the soil) it is not preventing the impact that regular mowing has

Non grass natural lawn alternatives need much less watering (if any) and biodynamic gardening prevents the need for artificial fertilisers too.

There really is no way to greenwash plastic grass. It is a BAD choice from an ecosystem point of view. Nobody choses it for environmental reasons.

It really does depend on the quality of the artificial grass in my opinion.

However, I cringe at the sight of cheap plastic flowers in hanging baskets etc and those nasty plastic topiary balls that hang out all year!

Plastic grass is not the answer, aren't we all meant to be cutting down or out plastic? What do you do with it when its life has ended or you just plain fed up with, throw it away to landfill.

My garden has grass, longish with clover and some wild flowers, patches of mud and yes a bamboo wind chime. We have two hedgehogs, a frog and even found some slowworms amongst a pile of rocks. A fig tree provides shelter from the sun when we need it Plenty of birds and I feel we have a lovely natural environment for a garden.

The reason for the chime is I like the calming sound it makes, so much better than the children one side shouting and screaming and the adults on the other side having a BBQ.

Hm999 plastic flowers yikes, ?

notanan I had neighbours once who had a decking that the barbecued and ate on...I once watched a fat rat walk across my garden to get through my fence to their decking.

Plastic grass and flowers can look ok here and there. I however cannot abide artificial sounds enforced on me, wind chimes, water features! (A real stream would be lovely, but not tap water running via a pump PLEASE NO!)

I would love a Camomile lawn. No idea how to go about it and couldn't tackle it myself now.

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

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

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

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

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.

That's killed this thread for me.

Shame. Was a good one.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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