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Gardening

halfulglas

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4. I was amazed visiting Germany in the 80s how lovely small front gardens looked.

Reply to NJCher (Original post)

Tue Jun 7, 2022, 10:29 PM

Jun 2022

They are used to small flower gardens in front and some grass in back yards for bocce or just sitting or maybe vegetables or small fruit trees. Almost no one seemed to desire a lot of property. Public buildings had lawns and the employees to care for them. There is no need for vast lawns with set back minimansions.

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Experts reveal why the anti-lawn movement is taking off in the US [View all] NJCher Jun 2022 OP

BRING IT ON Skittles Jun 2022 #1

I SO hear you on that! thucythucy Jun 2022 #12

YOU GOT THAT RIGHT Skittles Jun 2022 #13

I got rid of my lawn about 7 years ago, put in shrubs and mostly native plants, Ocelot II Jun 2022 #2

Saving water... rubbersole Jun 2022 #3

I was amazed visiting Germany in the 80s how lovely small front gardens looked. halfulglas Jun 2022 #4

In the midst of our megadrought here in the West, lawns are wasteful and niyad Jun 2022 #5

American spite toward clover in their lawns speaks volumes. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2022 #6

When I was a kid in the 60s, out riding my bike, rsdsharp Jun 2022 #7

Yes, and that wonderful smell of fresh mowed alfalfa hay.... KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2022 #9

I still remember being a 'kid' of lawn-mowing age in the Abolishinist Jun 2022 #8

When I was a mail carrier I walked over thousands of lawns. alfredo Jun 2022 #10

I never water my lawn Siwsan Jun 2022 #11

Where I am, we don't have a water crisis (yet) Chainfire Jun 2022 #14

My neighbors need to be born again. peacebuzzard Jun 2022 #15

I seeded much of my lawn with Dutch white clover. NutmegYankee Jun 2022 #16