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I will never understand lawns.
Lawns became symbols of the elite in England, as wealthy landowners sought to show off their gains via the most ostentatious displays possible outside stately homes.
Colonizing landowners were keen to replicate the look of a manicured English garden. As such, English imperialism is somewhat to blame for lawns being created around the world, where they became a status symbol, and a sign of wealth and well-to-do.
What I don’t get is what’s the point of a garden with only 2cm-long grass in it?
The point from from old England’s perspective is that keeping the grass at 2 cm requires a whole bunch of resources and people, so only the rich could afford it. Even today, any neighborhood with weeds growing instead of a 2cm lawn is instantly classified as lower class. There often is no practical use or sometimes use for games or walking is when forbidden because it’s a status symbol only.
It’s like asking what’s the point of owning a Bugatti Chiron that can go 400 kph when you’re stuck in the same traffic jam anyway.
It goes back to the origin stated here. It was desirable because they could afford to effectively waste a lot of acreage on a crop that had no benefit. Simply for show.
it’s easier to walk in than a garden with only 100cm-long grass in it
also looks nicer than a barren garden with no grass
Dogs tend to like them. Other than that…
The point is to make home ownership too expensive for black people by wasting land
Dandelions never hurt anybody.
You must not have met HOAs.
HOAs have hurt people.
Not that I’ll ever buy a home but I would never buy one in an HOA
80% of new developments in America have HOAs. We’re totally fucked.
I’m sure there must be some based HOAs out there that encourage this sort of thing instead of forbidding it. You just have to not live in Normieville.
That’s a contradiction. HOA’s are by definition Normieville.
I don’t see why it would have to be though. A bunch of oddballs could certainly get together and create one to protect diversity in their neighborhood from a normie invasion.
The most well-intentioned HOAs can easily go to shit when power-tripping assholes, with all the free time in the world, take them over.
The reverse is true as well, take over your HOA if you’re so angry at it
For the same reason why very few companies are worker owned co-ops: people suck and capitalism doubly so. That’s why we very rarely can have nice things.
In the case of HOAs, the bad ones (which are the vast majority of them) exist to extract profit (in the form of increasing property values, fining anyone who doesn’t follow their petty rules, and sometimes even take someone’s home for breaking the aforementioned rules) and exert as much control over people as possible.
In the US at least, laws regarding HOAs are a grotesque combination of under-regulation and regulations specifically crafted to FACILITATE abuse rather than discourage it.
Perhaps, but as long as there is no law that says you can’t have an HOA that fines you for having a McMansion with a monoculture lawn instead of a natural one, it’s at least possible in theory.
I pay an HoA, its like $30 a year. While they dont encourage it, they dont care either. They really dont do anything except twice a year they bring out garbage trucks/dumpsters to the nearby school to dump/recycle things too big for a trash can.
I wonder is it something specific to the USA or in other countries people are obseessing over nit having them in the lawn?
I’m in France and every though WE are far from having wild urban meadow or meadow at all, I’ve never heard of people and HOA complaining about dandelion before learning nolawn mouvement on the internet.Totally a USA thing. Dandelions and Clover are seen as undesirable to our eugenicized monoculture lawns.
The terrible part is the clover and dandelions and these other early season
flowers“weeds” are a very important part of a bees diet.Definitely a thing in the US. People spend lots of money to have chemicals poured onto their lawns every year, summer and winter, to keep the weeds away. All of those chemicals have to go somewhere. Probably the groundwater and streams and other bodies of water. Not good.
I know people who mowed down carefully their lawn and spray them with presticide but they never had a issue with having dandelions, daisies and other common grass flowers, they are usually considered part of the lawn.
It’s a weird culture a lot of emphasis on freedom and protecting your home but then you just “ok then” when the local busy body comes around. It’s your land get them told
…HOAs hire management companies; management companies issue citations, collect fines, file liens, and foreclose your property…
*land of the free
*free to exploit capital
I too had never heard of the insane hatred on the poor dandelions before stumbling upon it online.
They should just eat more salad if it’s such a problem.
Clearly someone who’s never accidentally tasted dandelion milk.
I stole this meme from somewhere else so I really don’t know anything about the backstory, so it could have been a grumpy neighbor for all I know.
You can make Dandelion wine, coffee, dandelion salve, dandelion syrup, dye your clothes and eat them, to mention a few uses. - maybe he should sell them.
I’ll pass on eating my clothes
Don’t knock it 'til you’ve tried it.
Yeah but that sounds an awful lot like work.
Oh no! Your neighbour will really be upset now…
What they meant us your lawn has less than the regulation number of dandelions. Quick, go gather seeds and start replanting!
Worked in animal crossing
Personally, I prefer the slovenly lions.
Dan the lion?
That’s better than someone dousing the lawn in roundup.
Pretty soon your neighbourhood will be lousy with Italians
what about the wives
Free Dandelions! From the sidewalk to the fence!
I can’t fathom why anyone hates dandelions. The entire plant is edible and they’re a cute little flower.
I saw a bunny once systemically behead a bunch of dandelions in an area. It was cute and scary.
Goats love dandelions. It’s like cocaine
