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My God. You can't even see the lawn for all the wild shit they've let go wild.
https://twitter.com/sweatystartup/status/1663327756946493441
Wonderful. Do you want things so groomed that you only ride trail centres?
That person would definitely dislike our garden.
There are weeds everywhere (flowers that no-one likes except me and the insects), un mowed lawn, bushes with 3 nests in atm, an overgrown area with nettles (where does he think butterflies and moths come from), a pond that's not neat and tidy, full of tadpoles and other teeny tiny water creatures.
A perfect garden is a desert, a slightly unkempt, wild garden - a haven for creatures.
Seems appropriate
What part of 'mind your own business' do some people have so much trouble with?
Weeds are only plants in the wrong place. If you want them there then they aren't really weeds. I had loads of dandelions and now I have ox-eye daisies growing. They aren't everyone's cup of tea but I like them so they aren't weeds.
Those crazy 'mericans.
I stopped on the road home today to take these photos:
had loads of dandelions and now I have ox-eye daisies growing. They aren’t everyone’s cup of tea
Well dandelion tea is minging.
He was infinite tomatoes guy too.
Does it to generate engagement so he can sell his financial services products:
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I stopped on the road home today to take these photos:
Your HOA has been notified. Expect a registered letter Monday morning.
The guy who owns the field behind us last year said he was going to stop cutting it and let it turn in to a 'wild meadow', I think he just couldnt be arsed cutting it any more.
Turns out it was long grass with a load of weeds in it that look like it had zero life in it.
He is currently out strimming it at the minute.
We're about to move house, to a 1920s place in a street with lots of older people in it. We're planning on pulling up the horrible crazy paving front garden (about 5 sq m of it) and planting wildflowers. This will be an interesting way to get to know the neighbours. 😉
Spray weed killer everywhere and cover everything in green plastic carpet!
I have never really got the US home owner association thing. You buy a house and someone can tell you how often to cut the grass and what type of car you can park on the driveway?
Hope it doesn't come to the UK!
My tramp of a neighbour cares not for wilding etc he's just too lazy to do anything with his garden. His Xmas tree from 2 years ago is still lying dumped in his back garden.
I have never really got the US home owner association thing. You buy a house and someone can tell you how often to cut the grass and what type of car you can park on the driveway?
Some people take liberties.
"use $50 to buy 10 Tomato plants"
then spend next couple of hours wondering why you spent so much on tomato plants when, lets face it, they probably are worth $2 each, tops, and if the owner of the garden centre/DIY store/bloke in pub carpark saw you coming and really did fleece you good and proper...
I have never really got the US home owner association thing. You buy a house and someone can tell you how often to cut the grass and what type of car you can park on the driveway?
Hope it doesn’t come to the UK!
HOA’s are horrible things, from all the posts I’ve read through Flipboard. They will fine you for the slightest infringement of their petty little rules, and they absolutely encourage the neighbourhood Taliban reporting you for anything they disagree with, which is anything to the Left of Atilla the Hun.
Councils in the U.K. can get involved if a garden becomes really overgrown or accumulates too much trash and starts to attract vermin. Or Japanese Knotweed.
i told my wife i’d reseeded the front lawn so that i had an excuse to not cut it. fortunately my neighbours already disliked me.
I've got thistles in my front garden. Eryngiums too, and clumps of ornamental grass. My neighbours think they're better than me, but they've concreted theirs and rent parking spaces by the day so **** them.
On a business trip a few years ago we visited Celebration. Disney’s ‘perfect’ anerican dream white picket fenced town. The local busybodies / law enforcement / HOA / cat in the hat production crew must have been fearsome. Horrible horrible horrible place.
I’ve got thistles in my front garden. Eryngiums too, and clumps of ornamental grass. My neighbours think they’re better than me, but they’ve concreted theirs and rent parking spaces by the day so **** them.
Hee, hee, same here. A huge number of the neighbours concreting over their gardens, to place 2 or 3 cars on.
We've got a pond, wild flower 'meadow' and raised beds with veg, oxeye daisies and poppies etc in the front garden. The back garden is even wilder - we've a tree that fell down, plonk in the middle 3 years ago - wildlife loves it.
The good thing is that this attitude is becoming more and more prevalent.
Joyous 😃
On a business trip a few years ago we visited Celebration. Disney’s ‘perfect’ anerican dream white picket fenced town. The local busybodies / law enforcement / HOA / cat in the hat production crew must have been fearsome.
Land of the Free, NOT!
honestly thought this was going to be about frozen sausages
had loads of dandelions and now I have ox-eye daisies growing. They aren’t everyone’s cup of tea
I’ve been trying to get oxeye daisies as well as a variety of other wildflowers to grow on my ‘lawn’. I’ve got dandelions, cowslips and buttercups, so maybe it’s just being patient and keep chucking seeds down until they start to grow. What I really want are red and white champions, they grow nice and tall.
Hope it doesn’t come to the UK!
I lived on an estate in the UK that'd had one when it was built in the late 70's. As far as i can tell it was the developers idea to keep the place looking tidy and not turning into a sinkhole estate (like the next one over).
It was even written into the deeds. Changes to the frontage of the house, gardens, fences, trees, bin rules, on street parking etc.
As far as i could tell, the last minuted meeting of the Residents Association had been in the mid-80s and they'd voted to dissolve the association.
Which suited me fine, as i left the olive green bathroom suite in the front garden for 2 weeks. The bin rules would have meant having two wheely bins and three large recycling boxes in the (tiny) back garden. Rather than the private path down the side of the house (couldn't be visible from the road, and not allowed to put up a gate). When the rules were written everyone had one metal bin. and the garage was really only big enough for a lawnmower and a motorbike... couldn't even get a Rover 25 in there with both wing mirrors open. So pretty much everyone parked on the road (no drives). Bigger cars than the old mini and rover metro era.
The whole thing read like some dystopian reimagining of life on an estate. Which is already pretty dystopian...
And the whole thing was built as a mix of low cost housing and council/private rentals.
Nick Huber is a very sad individual
Turns out it was long grass with a load of weeds in it that look like it had zero life in it.
Go and lie down in it for 10 minutes and then report back whether it doesnt have any life in it.
My neighbour was giving me shit for the amount of dandelions on my front grass so I cut it. They'd done their thing anyway so I cleared them and left the hawkweed which is much prettier and the bees like it. That turns into spores as well but can seed everywhere as far as I'm concerned. Always have birds and insects coming and going so must be doing something right.
My new neighbour out the back has just installed about 1000 sq ft of fake grass 😐
Fence to fence plastic yay
the garage was really only big enough for a lawnmower and a motorbike… couldn’t even get a Rover 25 in there with both wing mirrors open.
Off-topic but, it really is time we acknowledged that cars have got larger over time when building things like garages and carparks. We don't all drive an Austin Metro any more.
Just looking at that twitter feed, what a great example of an alpha business ****.
@Pierre risks finding the previous owners first wife, crazy paving is just a patio done in a rush 😆
Just looking at that twitter feed, what a great example of an alpha business ****.
Yet you clicked. Daily Mail business model.
Off-topic but, it really is time we acknowledged that cars have got larger over time when building things like garages and carparks. We don’t all drive an Austin Metro any more.
Don't forget those hefty batteries and extra burliness on e-bikes either 😉
Yet you clicked. Daily Mail business model.
Only because the tweet didn't render on my phone.
Still a long way from the catastrophe that is Facebook with Purity turned off though.
Land of the Free, NOT!
It's not obligatory to live there. There qre plenty of placss in the UK where you're not free to change the exterior of a house, but if you don't like it, don't live there!