Owning your own home

Kind of, it started from a reasonably flippant response to someone suggesting that a reason to have a tarmac front might be that they don’t want to have to maintain a garden. To which the pitchfork crowd said it was sacrilege and they have no sympathy for anyone who doesn’t want to maintain a garden.

Somehow I’ve ended up defending something I don’t like (tarmac covered drives) just because I can relate to finding gardening a chore.

Also you understand that a glazing budget is a capital spend, right? You spend it once, can be covered by mortgage, etc. Whereas a full service gardener might be several hundreds of pounds a month (based on any quote I’ve ever had)

I'm not convinced they can't afford to pay a gardener, especially if they diverted some of the glazing budget.

It's all about the cars, it really is. If they could fit all the cars and still have a front garden that they pay someone to sort out I reckon all but the worst of them would do it.

Hopefully increasing interest rates will fuck these ten-zillion car leasing folk right back to the one car they actually need. Then you might see some shrubs.

If they could fit all the cars and still have a front garden

they'd put fake grass down.

Not sure why you’re so agitated by this.
They have multiple cars, they could afford a gardener.
Or if you have no time or money (like I feel I have) plant stuff that doesn’t require lots of maintenance like the olive tree and heather bushes I have, which I’ve prob spent 30 mins over the last 3 years pruning.
Claiming killing all wild life means you’ve got no empathy with Mother Earth mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

Or if you have no time

Says the person posting on the internet at ten past noon on a Tuesday. AmiritE?!

Wait. Wednesday.

Also you understand that a glazing budget is a capital spend, right? You spend it once, can be covered by mortgage, etc.

Don't forget the window cleaner!

Dunno, as I say it isn't what I choose to do - I do keep plants in my front garden.

But the lazy "they do this, they could just change what they're doing and do what I want" reasoning really grates. Reminds me of discussing with pub bores why people on benefits can't sell flat screen TVs to eat, or why unemployed people don't just get a job - it's an inability to even try and understand how people might view things

I hate those kinds of people who make wide sweeping generalisations.

Find me a gardener who is as cheap as a window cleaner and where I can get away with doing it once a year only and I'll shut up

Reminds me of discussing with pub bores why people on benefits can't sell flat screen TVs to eat, or why unemployed people don't just get a job

Yeh it’s exactly like that…

It's all about the cars

Mmm, maybe. When quite possibly the majority of the UK is aspiring to have their back gardens looking like this, I'm not sure it is. People just don't want to do gardening, they want to have BBQs on a white patio while their French Bulldog wees on their astroturf.

There's a charity planting street trees near us which is lovely as some of the roads around me are quite barren and dead.

But they've had planning complaints through from local people not wanting the council to plant trees because they 'make a mess' and 'gentrify' the street, making it nicer and raising prices...

There are some very different opinions out there to seemingly uncontroversial stuff that will benefit people's wellbeing and the environment.

Right now I can't find a window cleaner at all (the previous pair had a fight, then a turf war and then both disappeared) so as far as I'm concerned there isn't enough money on earth.

So grim.
You can guarantee they own an SUV too.

Ok we can make this work - I'll come and clean your windows once a year and you'll agree to maintain my garden year round?

Lol. Sure.

Has anyone heard of a real person (rather than marketing speile) who has a nice looking low maintenance one that didn't take a million years to get right?

But they're right too, right?

Same with these millennium snowflakes bitching about not being able to afford a home while eating avo on toast and watching Netflix.

Errrrr… that wasn’t quite what i was getting at

I'm in the keep the wildlife tho.

I still can't let go of the fact that my neighbour cut down an amazing blossoming Cherry so they could build a shed.

They haven't built the shed.

Every spring when I look out the window and see the little one they left flowering I want to decapitate them.

WFH is difficult this time of year. I should probably go to CW then I'd be grateful for any green when I come home.

The ridiculous thing is that so am I - I only took issue with the idea that gardening was a burden, and the seemingly ever more ridiculous hardline answers suggesting all land should be appropriated from anyone who doesn’t have the time to cultivate it to its fullest.

Obviously i read the Daily Mail though

I love the theory but mine went horribly wrong.

At one point it grew a lettuce. I shit you not.

They are hard to get right.

Gardening is for middle class people who think they're too good for golf.

Hold up, this is sounding very much like things are getting resolved?

We did try eating the lettuce but it was MEGA bitter, so I suspect not an actual lettuce.

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