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Sadly the greater percent of the population don't realise this and don't care.

some people who have moved in along the lane, we are in a nice rural area, have just ripped out all the trees, replaced hedge with fencing and now have a pink artificial lawn installed, they said to a neighbour that they took hedges out because it attracts wildlife which they don't like :cry:
Why move to the country, I ask. I am praying the fox leaves a calling card on the pink lawn.
 
Marigold said:
It comes in all sorts of lovely colours as well as pink. See https://www.artificialgrass-london.com/shop-c1/rainbow-p40
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Good grief.

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Sadly it does, on social media there is a site "shitlawns" which posts pictures of these monstrosities. One recently was a purple lawn, with a plastic tree in a pot. there was a post of one that had been laid and had more wrinkles than Nora Batty's stockings. Another was someone bemoaning the council wouldn't chop down the cherry tree at the front of his house, and the petals were ruining his lawn, he was having to hoover it every day.
You even get a special rake so you can "rake" the stripes into it.
 
Here’s our lawn this morning - first wild Poppy about to be born.
The good thing about a lawn like this is that it changes colour every few weeks, all by itself, and never needs hoovering!

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That's truly beautiful, Marigold, thank you for posting.

Words continue to fail me about the human race.
 
Me to, if you have to hoover it and rake stripes into it, you may just as well mow a real lawn once a week. Plastic lawns grow weeds just as well as real ones.
Update on the pink lawn, it has a big hole scratched into it and is all rucked up, courtesy of Mr/Mrs fox no doubt. The crows and magpies may well have had a go
 
Good for the foxes and the magpies etc although generally I wouldn't want them in the garden.

I don't have a lawn, it's not very good grass with dandelions, buttercups, some type of sorrel and various thistles. When it gets cut it does have lovely stripes - I can't do it, it would bring on a massive attack of hay-fever which would turn into asthma. It isn't intentionally wild as it isn't pretty enough and there is a 20 yard wide buffer strip between my garden and the fields which is totally wild.

When I was about three years old I had a photograph taken sitting on artificial grass. I was wearing a tutu so had totally bare legs and I'm not smiling because the horrible stuff was prickly and very uncomfortable. I often wonder whether footballers etc get "carpet burns" if they slide on the artificail pitches?
 
We had a couple buy a house opposite the village church & then complain about the sound of the bells. You'd think they'd have noticed the enormous church tower outside the bedroom window before they bought the house... Happily they didn't stay for long.

When we moved here 21 years ago, our next door neighbour was concerned that their cockerels might be bothering us. I said that it was lovely- "It's just like living in the countryside ", I said.
She gave me an odd look. "You are, my dear", she replied. "You are!"
 
Margaid, that reminded me of coconut matting at school, prickly and nasty.

Someone locally converted a barn, then complained bitterly about the neighbouring farmer, combining etc out of hours, went to court and farmer was told to do farm work in "office hours and not weekends also. Even complained about children in the nearby lane playing outdoors and making a noise What goes around comes around as they say, as the land around them has been bought for the Lower Thames Crossing, so they are going to be surrounded by that on one side and slip roads onto it on other side. They are even losing most of their garden. Wonder if they can get the traffic to move only between 9-5

Here is the field at the back of us looking lovely
 

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dianefairhall said:
Hen-Gen said:
Well Dianne, I could say a lot about that but you never know who’s reading.
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:shock: :shock:

I can't believe anyone on here would be offended, Hen-Gen!
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It’s one of those unspoken rules in these parts that we can whinge and complain to our neighbours but that you should never criticise your island to off-islanders.
 
bigyetiman said:
Margaid, that reminded me of coconut matting at school, prickly and nasty.

Someone locally converted a barn, then complained bitterly about the neighbouring farmer, combining etc out of hours, went to court and farmer was told to do farm work in "office hours and not weekends also. Even complained about children in the nearby lane playing outdoors and making a noise What goes around comes around as they say, as the land around them has been bought for the Lower Thames Crossing, so they are going to be surrounded by that on one side and slip roads onto it on other side. They are even losing most of their garden. Wonder if they can get the traffic to move only between 9-5

Here is the field at the back of us looking lovely
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I can't believe a court would tell a farmer to work only in office hours, Monday to Friday. What planet were they on???? Karma is wonderful.

I used to attend a clinic were, at the age of about 4 I had to walk barefoot up and down a coconut mat, I think to check my gait. It was non-sensical because I sued to try and walk on the sides of my feet because it hurt!
 
I dream of having a wild flower lawn. I did let a large area go wild last year, and the year before, and while there were a good number of different flowers in there, they were quickly drowned out by grass. Ideally, I'd like to remove the grass. But, it's a very large area, with no access to get any kind of machinery in there, so I'd have to remove it by hand. I may try it, but by bit over the next few years. Who knows. I suppose I could spray it off, but I'm reluctant to use weedkiller on such a large area! (or at all, although I've had to use a bit here and there this year).
 
That could almost be here BYM, if you zone out the trees and introduce lots of tall grasses with seedheads amongst the flowers. Its encouraging though, you don't see many expanses of colour anymore.
 
It was lovely to see, acres of buttercups, there are a couple more fields like it.

Talking of madness, the new Thames crossing is cutting through swathes of farmland near us. But they came up with a brilliant idea yesterday, to cut pollution from the new road they will create new acres of farmland nearby to soak up the pollution, by returning brownfield land to agricultural. You do think why not put the road that way then.
A local village where a lot of Thurrock councillors live complained about the noise that would emanate from the road, so they have decided to move the road further right, next to Tilbury which being a deprived area they won't complain. Do feel sorry for people of Tilbury, they have the docks with all the container lorries back and forth, traffic to the warehouses and now this going to add to the pollution and noise.
They kept that nugget hidden until after the council elections and they had been re-elected
 
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