AIBU. Public flogging for garden taste misdemeanors

Thank you, notanan2!

I love the sound of your garden Minniemoo and I think mirrors look great in gardens

Lavender doesn't do it for me. But our garden is very 'quirky'. Good word, notanan2. We have lots of odd things ones wouldn't expect. Mirrors, an old spice rack just hanging on the fence, a gnome swinging from a tree, a wall filled with odd things the children have dropped over the years. :ego characters, tiny cars, tiny jam jars etc etc. Tacky many would say but I don't actually care. Our front garden is mainly trees and plants but we do have some oddments in the porch.

It reminds me of the little lavender bags my mum used to make to put in our drawers (and our drawers, too!)
Great for headaches, pimples, scarring and just generally lovely, is lavender oil.

Me too. It is a marmite smell but my home is probably quite marmite anyway.

I love lavender.
Its the most lovely relaxing smell ever.

Oh yes, and some garden incense too.
Lemongrass.

Oh I love fragrant plants. And if you dont like lavender you would HATE my home.

I mean the awful cheap hippy burning stuff that shops that sell ethnic for white people clothing burn

Did you know that some people regularly (as in weekly and extensively) BLEACH their gardens! I discovered that this is common practice on facebook housekeeping pages. Just awful!

Oh yes, and some garden incense too.
Lemongrass.

What I like: higgildy pigilty gardens full of intetest. Many would call my taste tacky I do not mind tat (eg statues, metal "things" interspersing plants so long as there are plants

My OWN front garden is actually quite dull and ordinary but I plan to build it up

I have a spinning flamingo windmill, some solar lights, a solar smiley face with arms that wave...
Then there's a Buddha head, some lanterns.

I wouldn't mind but I don't even have a garden.

Solar lights (or any garden lighting that stays on all the time) affects insects and birds life cycles negatively.

Wind chimes are obnoxous unless you have no neighbours. They are the garden equivalent of hippy shops that burn so much inscense that you cant avoid it just by not going into that shop they waft out onto the street.

I dont mind proper inscense that you get abroad its the awful cheap "flavoured" ones... eugh

FYI I am not a garden vigilante these things dont bother me THAT much, but am enjoying the communal moan..

I have a windchime ( bamboo) and a metal poppy, solar lights, and a lifelike rabbit ?
However we also have real lawns,a shrubbery and borders,
Trees and many flowering plants, so I have to be forgiven.

At least gravel can be draining. Hard landscaping, especially in front gardens is responsible for a lot of flooding.

I dislike plastic grass and I love windchimes. I have taken to metal poppies and at Christmas bought a silver reindeer, very stylish you know - it’s still in the garden, living happily amongst the phlox. I’m looking at solar lights.....

Am not the biggest fan of decking either. When we were house hunting estate agents loved decking. I always said "well that would have to come right up cause Im not a big fan of rats!"

Everyone I know who has moved into a house with decking has had to deal with vermin issues. Some dont make the connection and keep the decking but...

Unless they put plastic gravel grids at the border. Which looks awful.

Well, I'm all for banning gravel.
Its never stays in the gardens but spills all over the pathways.

Artificial grass should be banned! Clover lawns grow well (and look great) in more shadey gardens and dont destroy nature corridoors.

Gardens should have some planning stipulation that means they cant be fully paved, decked or covered in plastic!

Next door have the previously mentioned high hedges and grass, that's it. Not a plant of any description. An outdoor room is not a garden!

My worst nightmare would be living next door to somebody with teenagers and a trampoline.

I can cope with the grass. It is people who pave, gravel and cover their whole garden and leave not a plant in sight that I would consign to a top floor flat in a high rise block with a broken lift.

Our neighbour has this. I was a bit horrified at first but it's very lifelike and I doubt I'd notice if I didn't know. If that makes sense!

Some local flats, some of which I suspect are 2nd homes and so not lived in all year, have wonderful tub displays. One ground floor flat, with a glass-fronted balcony, decided to fill (overfill) their tubs with random plastic flowers. Yes, this is a crime against taste.

Btw I think some grass looks fine, but some looks awful (bit like wigs).

I'm all for whatever makes life easier for people, and if that includes pretend grass, well, so be it.