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HISTORY OF IDEAS - French & English Gardens

France and England have had two very different gardening histories that tell us as much about psychology as they do about horticulture. If you like our films...

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New growth on my orchids 

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I have some seedlings growing! I don’t normally have much luck with seeds but that doesn’t stop me trying. I’ve got cat mint, micro greens, tomatoes, and carrots. 

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I did some weeding in amongst the spider lilies at the back of the house and picked up a few clusters of seeds. I’m wondering what to do with them, because I already have heaps of lilies but I also just love growing stuff. 

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Today the council chopped down the tabebuia tree growing in front of my house because it was falling over. I know it had to be done, I was still sad to see it go though. 

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I dismantled an old planter box and dumped the soil out onto my compost about two weeks ago, not realising that it was full of dormant rain lily bulbs. After a week of monsoonal rain I noticed them all sprouting in the compost, so I dug them out and put most of them into this pot. There were so many that I had to stick the rest randomly into other pots that already have plants in them. 

I’m really surprised at how hardy they are. I thought that they had all died over the dry summer and the recent heatwave, and there are more bulbs than there were ever lilies growing in that spot. Looking forward to some cute little pink flowers. 

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This haworthia has taken the idea of a flower stem to a whole new level. It has a few seed pods on it too, which I was not expecting at all. 

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First flowers on my little adenium, and I love the colour

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Rain = long grass and mushrooms!

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I forgot to post a photo of this succulent arrangement I gave to my mum for Christmas. She loved it :) 

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Weeding

[scissorspider]

i was about to joke about how my political stance is “end lawnmower culture” but then it occurred to me that i actually Am against lawns as suburban status symbols and wastes of land that Could be used to sustain native flora & fauna and grow food for people, but no, instead they are these huge useless swaths of land that need Constant maintenance, the process of which is not only destructive, but Incredibly Loud

[turtletot43-deactivated20180723]

You know that actually is the purpose of a lawn? They started as a trend of the French monarchy - the ones revolutionaries beheaded for being self indulgent assholes.

It exists purely as a status symbol that says, “I have land but I don’t have to use it for anything productive. I can invest time, money and resources in maintaining an entirely useless crop on land I’m not farming just because it looks pretty.”

Lawns offend me.

[bigwordsandsharpedges]

Why have that stunted golf course in front of your suburban house if you can’t even water it? Get one of these instead.

[pollymol-deactivated20181115]

Unite Against the Lawn

[vikingofficial-deactivated20241]

Pro tiny house, anti grass lawn. Prioritize practicality.

[whitefriartuck]

This is actually really interesting because back in the 1950s and 60s in Australia when we started getting large waves of Southern European migrants one thing the Italians and others would often so is buy a little suburban home, then tear out the ornamental flower beds and lawn and useless trees and plant fruits, vegetables, grapes and even olives. It was considered completely scandalous by their Anglo-Saxon neighbours because lawn was considered an aspirational thing and the ideal was to go from not needing a kitchen garden and having an ornamental garden to show how well you were doing.

[ireallyluvdogs]

This is great. All of it. Not to derail this too much, but “Lawnmower” culture also reminds me of aggressively heterosexual men. Men ALWAYS will use mowing the lawn as a way to get out of doing all the other household chores – having a lawn that a man mows somehow makes maintaining everything else inside a house the women’s responsibility. Down with lawnmower culture.

[hestiasroom]

i’ve actually read a whole book on lawns and lawn culture (yes, really) it’s called lawn people by paul robbins check it out and let’s all boycott lawn culture together!!!

[madsciences]

@hoaxtumbles I want a vegetable lawn 

[ayyymagician-deactivated2017012]

Agriburb!

[zohbugg]

I have never really thought about how lawns came to be like a standard thing but wow this makes sense. I hate mowing the lawn boycott all lawns

[lepidosaurs]

lawns actually cause a lot of habitat fragmentation for local wildlife and plants so fuck lawns

[missingrache]

Article about biodiversity and how lawns are Not Good and plants you can grow to help

Video about the same!

[goldenheartedrose]

This is so great.

[kylos-knight-deactivated2016050]

Also, some of my neighbors have really big lawns and I mean really, and I think I was so baffled a few years ago that I asked one of them, “so what is a lawn for exactly?” and they said “Idk so my kids can play on it” but honey how many kids actually play on their front lawn I mean I have never seen a single youngling on that grass football field in front of your house

[liminalhat]

@tea-zilla

[grenadineghost]

only tumblr would have lawn discourse

and only tumblr would convince me to take a stand against lawns

[canadiamaple]

My plants are ready to stand tall and create whimsy for the younglings!

[iamcactus]

I hate having a lawn. My town has been on water restrictions for, like, years, so my yard is always sad and ugly. If I wasn't in a rental property I'd get rid of it.

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When you haven’t ridden your bike for a while and nature starts to take over

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Haworthia flowers

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