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I’ve never understood the obsession with the plain grass lawn. Even aside from ecological reasons, I’d rather have native plants just because they look better.
As a counter argument, lawns are a resilient, walkable surface that’s pleasant to sit or walk on. It’s great for children and pets. I haven’t come across a lawn alternative that is suitable for the load of dogs and children. But I don’t spray, and I do not use a gasoline mower.
I have my lawn bordered with a mix of native and nonnative ornamental plants and trees, forming about 30% of the available land.
The problem is with lawns that aren’t used except to serve abstract purposes, such as signaling status, adhering to socially conditioned ideas of beauty, or holdovers from the colonial impulse to terraform.
For example, I’ve lived in my home for nearly two decades and have not once seen any neighbor use their front lawn other than to mow it. Many are the same way with their backyards. Blocks and blocks of this type of land use, all over my city. This is what the nolawns movement is about.
Well it started as a wealth symbol because the amount of energy, labor, and money it took to maintain a pure grass lawn was immense. No one ever saw a well manicured, pure grass lawn outside of mansions and palatial estates and such.
Then we got push mowers and fertilizer and weed killer and sprinklers - everyone could have their own green carpet!
But yeah, fuck lawns. Might as well just roll out AstroTurf.
More than that, it showcased status as a wealthy person that could afford to hire servants to care for unproductive grass… or, in some cases, afford to have slaves to care for unproductive grass. It’s more impressive than just leaving the dirt bare or letting weeds grow wild, it required intensive inputs to maintain.
One of my neighbors has a plain grass lawn. And to his credit, he puts in a lot of work into it. I’ll see him multiple times a week spending hours maintaining it, buying and spreading mulch, watering, trimming, raking, the works.
But it just looks so boring and unnatural. I can’t imagine why he would put in all that time, money, and effort into something so unremarkable.
I’ve never understood the obsession with the plain grass lawn. Even aside from ecological reasons, I’d rather have native plants just because they look better.
As a counter argument, lawns are a resilient, walkable surface that’s pleasant to sit or walk on. It’s great for children and pets. I haven’t come across a lawn alternative that is suitable for the load of dogs and children. But I don’t spray, and I do not use a gasoline mower.
I have my lawn bordered with a mix of native and nonnative ornamental plants and trees, forming about 30% of the available land.
The problem is with lawns that aren’t used except to serve abstract purposes, such as signaling status, adhering to socially conditioned ideas of beauty, or holdovers from the colonial impulse to terraform.
For example, I’ve lived in my home for nearly two decades and have not once seen any neighbor use their front lawn other than to mow it. Many are the same way with their backyards. Blocks and blocks of this type of land use, all over my city. This is what the nolawns movement is about.
Well it started as a wealth symbol because the amount of energy, labor, and money it took to maintain a pure grass lawn was immense. No one ever saw a well manicured, pure grass lawn outside of mansions and palatial estates and such.
Then we got push mowers and fertilizer and weed killer and sprinklers - everyone could have their own green carpet!
But yeah, fuck lawns. Might as well just roll out AstroTurf.
The solution to lawns isn’t plastic.
Having a lawn also showcased one’s status as a wealthy person who didn’t need to grow food crops on their land
More than that, it showcased status as a wealthy person that could afford to hire servants to care for unproductive grass… or, in some cases, afford to have slaves to care for unproductive grass. It’s more impressive than just leaving the dirt bare or letting weeds grow wild, it required intensive inputs to maintain.
One of my neighbors has a plain grass lawn. And to his credit, he puts in a lot of work into it. I’ll see him multiple times a week spending hours maintaining it, buying and spreading mulch, watering, trimming, raking, the works.
But it just looks so boring and unnatural. I can’t imagine why he would put in all that time, money, and effort into something so unremarkable.