Spring flowers at my neighbours garden in 2009 or 2010 when my godparents lived there. I always loved the contrasting colours and depth from shooting at such a low angle.
Suburbanites in the fall: expending time, energy and/or money removing dead leaves from their lawn (instead of simply mulching in place with a lawnmower).
Suburbanites in the springtime: expending time, energy and/or money to import and apply fertilizer to their lawn (instead of relying on the now-biodegraded mulchings from the fall).
Anyone have an idea what is digging divots in our front lawn? These holes are everywhere. It looks like a dog did it, but it's only our front yard, no neighboring yards. Back yard is unaffected. The strip on the other side of the driveway is also untouched. #lawn#gardening#pest
Lawn is “covering around 40% of the planet’s land surface, lawns are monocultures made up of a handful of species that require frequent watering, fertiliser and – often – pesticides.
Lawn is “nature under totalitarian rule”. Michael Pollan
"At a larger scale they also suggested a permanence and control that assuaged anxieties about the fragility of colonial control. Andrea Gaynor, professor of history at the University of Western Australia, argues that while some settlers appreciated the beauty of Australian landscape from early on, that “didn’t override the necessity to provide a civilised veneer that meant the colony could project an image of itself as stable, settled and prosperous, and therefore an attractive field for investment. So the cultural aspect is deeply entwined with the economics of the whole enterprise.” Simultaneously lawns helped encode and reinforce racial and social hierarchies. “Lawns were understood by Perth’s white residents as the antithesis of, and vastly superior to, Indigenous landscapes and cultures,” says Gaynor."
“Even in a drying climate we’d rather run desal[ination] plants than do away with lawn. It really shows how deeply ingrained lawn is in Australian culture as a symbol of civilisation and environmental control.”
House of the French poet Jacques Prévert (1900-1977) in Normandy, France.
I was expecting the interiors to be preserved and styled in the way Prévert used to keep when alive. Unfortunately, the interiors are all replaced with tables and shelves with placards, souvenirs, and books for sale. It's more of a store than a trip to the past.
Rode into battle this morning on my trusty mount Jan-michel. We cut down their numbers with every charge but I am not fooled, we have only purchased a week's delay in their onslaught from our brave actions here today.
Also, sorry to my neighbors for the shriek of terror, that garter snake took me completely by surprise.
We bought our house in 2019 and stopped mowing the #lawn, to the exasperation of our neighbors (ok, the first 2 yrs didn’t look so good 😂). But now we are reaping off rewards, our lawns rewilding and getting lots of flowers like forget-me-nots, wild strawberries, lady’s mantle, columbine, and even raspberry bushes. ❤️The ground holds water much better: while our neighbors’ grass is slowly yellowing due to a watering ban, ours is holding quite well. I highly recommend to re-wild your lawns!
Son offered to help with removing the grass from the tiles in our #lawn and we used the removed parts to create a frankenlawn for our #rabbits ;-) Best project ever.
Clover requires less water and fertilizer than grass; plus, it's magical looking.
By Ilana Strauss, July 21, 2022
"Clover is becoming popular because it looks magical but doesn't require as much care as regular lawns. Since it doesn't need fertilizer or much water, it's also good for the planet. Plus, it's tough.
"You don't need to water microclover as much as grass, and don't even think about using an herbicide on it. You can add fertilizer if you want, but clover is pretty good at keeping itself fertilized since it naturally pulls nutritious nitrogen out of the air." #Gardening#GardeningForPollinators#NoMowMay