{"id":787,"date":"2012-07-23T08:52:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T07:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2022-10-20T12:34:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T11:34:47","slug":"lawns-what-are-they-good-for-by-paul-strugnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/lawns-what-are-they-good-for-by-paul-strugnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawns: what are they good for?  by Paul Strugnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'>\n                <div class=\"twp-read-time\">\n                \t<i class=\"booster-icon twp-clock\"><\/i> <span>Read Time:<\/span>3 Minute, 43 Second                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div><p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Every man\u2019s home is his castle and every man\u2019s lawn is his bowling green\/golf course\/football pitch\/nemesis (depending on your choice of sport, or lack of it). By now many gardens up and down the country will be buzzing to the desperate sound of lawn mowers and cursing of lawn mower owners as they drag an ageing rusty, blunt contraption out from the back of the shed where its chief role over the winter period has been to gather dust and an interesting spider collection.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CIMG87804.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-793\" title=\"CIMG8780\" src=\"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CIMG87804-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CIMG87804-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CIMG87804.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For those that have the pleasure of a petrol mower comes the additional nice surprise of finding a fuel spillage to rival the Torrey Canyon disaster, and the touch and go stuntman operation of mixing and spilling a combination of various highly volatile substances over your shoes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A fact of life is that however much you choose to ignore it the grass has to be cut, many people now will be faced with the ankle high grass growing in their gardens which due to the recent downpours, and lack of cutting opportunities, is rapidly getting out of control. The excuse of \u2018it\u2019s a wildlife garden\u2019 is no defence for laziness, or claiming it\u2019s a sanctuary for slowworms, which are much happier hiding under your paving or in the compost bin. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CIMG8776.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-794\" title=\"CIMG8776\" src=\"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CIMG8776-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CIMG8776-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CIMG8776.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And anyway what do you do with the weed-ridden cuttings?\u00a0\u00a0Generally they are\u00a0left to fester in a far corner of the garden to be dug over several years later to reveal a dry silver mass of ballistic resistant material in the middle.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So who can we blame for this? And what use is a lawn?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Well for starters you can blame the weather and our position in the northern hemisphere, just right for a bit of grass growing. Mild winters, warm summers (mostly) and generally a respectable amount of rainfall (2012 excluded).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then there are kids. Grass is great for running about in and doesn\u2019t cause falls requiring trips to A&E, and you can stage your own picnic or lido in the comfort of your own back garden. You will also be able to admire and remember the happy times by the dying sun-starved bit of grass looking forlorn at the end of the day when you remove the picnic blanket or paddling pool filled with dead flies. But the space you have is never big enough and the ball will at some point end up lost in the next door neighbour\u2019s garden anyway.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So, sunbathing. Patios are good for that too and you don\u2019t end up with a wonky sun lounger.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For aesthetics, go on be honest, are you really proud of your lawn? Or can you come to love the moss covered, patchy weed ridden green (& brown) bit of little England in your garden. And let\u2019s face it,\u00a0what is the point of a front lawn, unless you are an exhibitionist, or like to park your car in mud.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Not to mention their raging thirst for water.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">So why do we have this obsession and love-hate relationship with the lawn?\u00a0 Well you can blame the aristocrats of the 17<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> century when the lawn was seen as a status symbol, and due to the necessity of having to cut it required you to employ a sizeable workforce. Or more to the point have the means to of paying someone else to do the dirty work for you. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But, the real culprit is a Mr Edwin Beard Budding who on August 31 1830 patented the first lawn mower and opened up the tidal wave for lawns everywhere regardless of social standing. Shortly after this the first \u2018Ye Olde B&Q Superstore\u2019 was opened and a new rush on Sunday trading began.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CIMG8790.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-795\" title=\"CIMG8790\" src=\"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CIMG8790-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CIMG8790-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CIMG8790.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So it\u00a0is\u00a0time to face facts:\u00a0the lawn is\u00a0just a hangover from a bygone age and an outdated status symbol which has become a Sisyphean task to keep under control, and which has sounded the death knell for peaceful Sundays everywhere.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Is it time to liberate the shed and do away with the lawn mower and free your garden from this albatross. 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