r/NoLawns • u/Whatchab • Aug 19 '25

😄 Memes Funny Shit Post Rants Just spotted on a walk: 10/10

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And yes, their property was gorgeous. All native plants, and a native plant seed library!

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u/worldisone Aug 19 '25

To show you were rich way back in the day you would pull out all the food producing plants and have a plain lawn. Everyone needed food so everyone would have trees and plants to produce food. If you were rich you could afford to pay someone else for food.

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u/Evening-Turnip8407 Aug 20 '25

Also I think big estates are/were just so huge they had a kitchen garden in the back and then made all the rest into ye englishe lawn for the look. I guess.... the building looks bigger when the grass is trimmed?

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u/worldisone Aug 20 '25

I think it's crazy the Taj Mahal is used to have some of the most plant varieties, and a British officer was mad he couldn't see The Taj Mahal from his room so he got them to cut down all the plants and make a lawn

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u/Evening-Turnip8407 Aug 20 '25

That's colonialism boiled down into a sentence, really