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OK, but can't you learn to love bees, too? I am not even half joking. The fascination with lawns, and everything that comes with it, is something I could never get. Flowers might not be manly enough but why not grow trees and/or produce? Not talking commercial efforts. Just a hobby. One that doesn't involve horrible motorized mowers, water waster, and what have you.
Not when your kid is deathly allergic.
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Do you feel the same way about body odor?
Or people who live in extreme climates and rely on HVAC systems to pump air conditioned / heated air in their homes and environments the majority of the time? The reality is the majority of our modern world and lives can be seen as a waste of energy, resources, and, "hubris against nature" and it seems like there is some subjective line for each person that delineates what is too far.
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> It is pure insanity but America has a weird fixation with lawn. It's classism. The entire point of requiring large setbacks with front lawns is to discriminate for homeowners who can afford to maintain a large completely useless surface.
Perhaps. I cannot argue, I live elsewhere. But I have a lawn that takes me an hour of hard work to mow. It is not visible to the public. I adore it. The dogs adore it. The children are too little to appreciate the effort, but they like it too. There are other reasons to have lawns. Also maintains an area around the house that does not burn
the only reason for a law requiring other people to have a manicured lawn is to ensure that a neighbourhood is only populated by the class of people who both value and can afford that luxury.
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Do you feel the same way about body odor?
Or people who live in extreme climates and rely on HVAC systems to pump air conditioned / heated air in their homes and environments the majority of the time? The reality is the majority of our modern world and lives can be seen as a waste of energy, resources, and, "hubris against nature" and it seems like there is some subjective line for each person that delineates what is too far.
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When these topics are mentioned I remember once how police wanted to give my parents' neighbour a ticket for trash on her property, it was fly tipping. Turned out my parents personally knew the police officer and after being asked "so if I break a glass bottle in your garden, you will give yourself a ticket?". The guy let them go without a ticket... so when this US HOA thing is mentioned in extreme scenarios like som…
A LOT of the HOA president types are retired and stay at home a lot, and watch things like a hawk. I would expect a decent number of them to consider throwing ‘invasive’ seeds onto their lawns some kind of terrorist act. And almost all of them would comb over every legal resource they could find to try to nail you with something over it. This is definitely a case where you’d be better off just avoiding it entirely.
I don't understand why a lot of people have a lawn in the first place, most don't even use the lawn (besides mowing it on a regular basis hahaha)!
Often times it is required by law or HOA. For example the FL fire code has a mandate that buildings be set back from the road a certain (insane) distance, ostensibly for fire safety reasons, and then people don’t really want to see huge dirt fields everywhere, so the HOAs require lawns.
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What clover? Would love to do this even though clover is really expensive. I planted some last year but it only half kinda took.
It's a mix of white and pink, mostly white though. I also planted some creeping thyme and I keep a lot unmowed with some wildflowers. I have a decent sized lawn (little over 1/2 acre), but a good chunk of it is taken up by a septic system.
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this attitude, generally, is why we're never going to solve climate change
"It seems they created lawns of unsustainable crops that allegedly had aesthetic appeal, and then proceeded to maintain these crops until they ran out resources and all went extinct." -some alien archeologist in 1000 years
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It's a mix of white and pink, mostly white though. I also planted some creeping thyme and I keep a lot unmowed with some wildflowers. I have a decent sized lawn (little over 1/2 acre), but a good chunk of it is taken up by a septic system.
Do you have tall grass too? I planted clover a while back over my existing grass and if i didn't mow i'd still have a foot tall grass, which i find really annoying. I still love the clover, and it helps keep the grass a bit more sane - but the length of the grass is my primary fight.
They stay within about 50 yards of wherever their 'home' hole is, so they won't run off (although their offspring may!).
You still need to mow about twice a year to get rid of plants the rabbits don't like to eat, which will otherwise grow into bushes.