AIBU. Public flogging for garden taste misdemeanors

I'm with ya granny4hugs. I'm not a violent person, but will be happy to adminster some light slaps with said strips of synthetic lawn.

I hope everyone is going to knock at the door of those with plastic grass and offer their services to cut and tend to a natural lawn if they promise to remove the offending stuff.

Day6 windchimes are lovely ( I try them in the garden centre too) obviously you have to site them in a neighbour friendly way though, and take account of where you live ( on a windy hill!) etc.
Our garden is very sheltered and away from immediate neighbours, also the windchime is melodic not a tinny chime.

put me at the top of your list IF we can get grass to grow or maybe they'd like to contribute to the drainage fund as the latest estimate is close to £5K .

Notanan I do know children dont need level lawns to play on but a swamp with mud they'll sink into and reeds isn't ideal .Currently we've spent over ten thousand pounds on drainage firms had fences taken down so diggers can get in and even planted the dreaded Leyllandi as advised by the landscaper ...to soak up the water !! It didn'tw work I now have 12 foot trees along the back fence that I dont want,with another bill for thousands to take them away .Some of us dont lay fake grass because we're lazy OR dont care about the environment !

I was thinking the same thing MissA as judgemental ranty posts aren’t helpful.
Everybody has to do what is best for them, you can get artificial lawn that the rain goes through into the earth, and it’s far better than hard paving over the garden.You can still have borders in the garden, filled with insect friendly plants.

notanan2 thanks for ruining this hopefully lighthearted thread. You are entitled to your opinions but not to be nasty about other people's choices.

I dislike plastic balls instead of hanging baskets, I have no opinion on artificial lawns as I don't have a lawn myself just raised beds & concrete paths which were here when I bought this home. I dislike small lawns & hate using a Flymo no strength for other types of mowers

Windchimes I don't mind provided they're not too intrusive. I have a few solar lights & gnomes plus some garden ornaments.

One of my pet hates is decking & I hate to see front gardens totally paved over, please leave some garden to allow "run off" after rain. Lelandaii leave me speechless - why, who thought they were a good idea

I really don't mind if our neighbours at the back put down artificial lawn - it would be better than their huge leylandii and the general mess their garden is in.

What about a willow tree paddyann, they will soak up a lot of water?
Leylandii roots tend to be fibrous.

Sorry to come late to the party, so I'm afraid that I haven't read all the other posts, but I'm going to bet than no one else has posted the pet hate which has been erected in my neighbour's garden: A full-size flag-pole and Union Jack - with twinkling fairy lights wound round the pole. I kid you not!

I hate hydrangeas don't know why but it's the only flower I can't stand. We have one in the front garden but we're moving soon so I've told OH
If there's any in a house we choose he has to dig them up!

I have a rowan and a plum and an apple tree and loads of large shrubs .The landscaper said the Leylandii were the best option.Sadly not! Now its going to cost an arm and a leg to have them removed and then we're back to square one .The land around our house ..outside the garden belongs to the street and we pay for its upkeep so any damage done to it with diggers etc will have to be paid by us too.Honestly I'm fed up to the back teeth of it all.The FAKE grass has reeds growing through it now as well...if it wasn't such a worry I'd laugh .The plan was to move this year but the house we were buying fell through ,still looking for somewhere else .

Amagran My sympathy about the union flag...we have a lot of naval families here who fly them on large flag poles too

Plastic grass becomes unbearably hot compared to the real lawn which has a cooling effect.

DotMH1901, my idea of an 'untidy' front garden is one full of old mattresses and overflowing bins, not a bit overgrown with some lights and bits of wood. The (cowardly) complainer should have offered to help first. If really upset by it they could have contacted the council who'd then decide if it really is bad enough to merit some action. Lots of houses here have permanent Christmas lights, although they're switched off out of season.

Plastic flower hanging baskets outside the front door. Yuk!

Artificial grass ? yes .Plastic gnomes and those ghastly plastic frogs ? NO.

There is no way I will be removing my plastic grass, it is the best thing we ever did. I do not feel guilty as a neighbour has allowed his garden to turn into a wilderness and wildlife can feed there to their hearts content.

We had a minuscule front garden years ago - too much to use shears on and too narrow for the mower. We put in a strip of artificial grass, cut an X in the middle and planted a bush. It was great! I used to hoover it to my children’s great embarrassment.

sazzl I am not keen on the mop heads,but like blue lacecap hydrangeas . Not that you can ever get them blue in the wrong soil.
For some reason I dislike chrysanthemums or dahlias probably because I have trouble spelling them.

I have blue lacecap hydrangeas that I keep blue by adding
‘Hydrangea Blue’ to their watering regime every two weeks.
I add just a little now and then to a pink mophead, and get a multi hued shrub, pink, lilac and purple.

Gnomes, whirly windmills and wishing wells...I'd smash them all.

Plastic grass. Plastic flowers. Plastic flowerpots. All awful.

However, I am seriously thinking about a strip of placky grass to hide the gap where the perishing ants keep killing the real stuff. And maybe some sixty foot down the bottom of the garden where the corners of the lawn under the trees die off and leave just brown earth. My eyesight is so not 20/20 that I would not notice it from the kitchen.

But no. In real life, I wouldn’t.

To the poster who mentioned the horror of trampolines I quite agree. To my joy the neighbours’ ( lovely ) girls have taken theirs down.

Instead I have tinny pop music from the other neighbour’s radio, two road drills hammering up patios to make extensions, a newly moved in householder who is gutting the house with power tools and teenagers on the green brought in by jolly volunteers to supervise their screaming and shouting.

Oh the joy of the peaceful countryside in the garden on a sunny day.

Although I wouldn't want it myself, in certain circs I think artificial grass can be useful. A dd's friend had some laid in a small, narrow urban garden where proper grass probably wouldn't have done well at all - too much shade - and she wanted a soft surface for two very little ones to play on.

Hard paving or gravel wouldn't have done at all, and as pps have said, decking is a rat hazard, and besides can get very slippery.

I suppose we really ought to stop using plastic especially such a large spread of it

surely if there are drainage issues- it would be best to solve such as it will create problems with the house and foundations, no?