Yeah, their marketing shots are bad, but having sampled all of their range, comparing in various lighting situations, at different angles, and against out existing lawn, the stuff is seriously good. But you seem entrenched in your view, so be it.
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Yeah, their marketing shots are bad, but having sampled all of their range, comparing in various lighting situations, at different angles, and against out existing lawn, the stuff is seriously good. But you seem entrenched in your view, so be it.
Amazing just how angry it gets some people! I don't have any, wouldn't want any as my garden is presently perfect, but it certainly doesn't offend me.
Thankfully there's nothing more important to worry about like wars, poverty, cost of living...
Thankfully there's nothing more important to worry about like wars, poverty, cost of living...
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Try food poverty or climate change caused by environment destruction and you can see why people are passionate.
No, its not modern Britain, Its your ******* garden you can do what you want with it, that's modern Britain. Next you will be asking people to switch off all the street lights as it bothers the moths.
If they tax that, then people will just pave.
Like I said, modern Britain. Do what you want, **** everything else.
Insect populations are down 60%. When our rural ecosystems collapse and food prices go through the roof (even more than they are now), the same people gleefully laying plastic all over their gardens will be the ones moaning.
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Tax wasps, *****.
Which has got how much to do with plastic lawns? Next to zero.
To be clear, I’m not pro plastic lawns but putting forward these kind of arguments is disingenuous.
It's not just plastic lawns it is artificial gardens, they go together. What once were decent 'nature corridors' are now devoid of life and contributing to the biodiversity crisis. But as I said already, why change our proud history of trashing nature now? We are world leaders at that at least.
Modern Britain... Its the same Britain since I was born.... This is just more stupid from the stupid mighty righteous crowd millennial look at me brigade (who have managed to get a job) If you want insect populations to bounce then get onto the farmers to stop using pesticides, letting land actually go fallow and stop dumping nitrogen into the ground like their is no tomorrow and put in nature breaks between fields etc.
But to single out plastic grass as you did as the cause is disingenuous. Plastic grass probably covers less than a fraction of a thousandth of one percent of the landmass of the country.
Compare that to the millions of hectares of land which is treated with chemicals designed to kill insects. That’s on top of all the hedgerows they strip out, the ploughing, the list could go on.
Like I said, to attribute a few plastic lawns to insect populations collapsing is disingenuous. Don’t get me wrong, they don’t help, but the impact is negligible in reality.
As others have said, they are far far far better than paving which is basically what you’ll end up with if you ban plastic lawns.
To be clear, i don’t own a plastic lawn, not plan to get one.
Yet there's been a lot of public support for reducing all that stuff. At the end of the day getting "big farming" to change is a hard thing to do, involving corporations and lots of money. On the flipside, to individually elect not to have a fake plastic lawn is something that everyone can do, to do their part. Two wrongs don't make a right, it's like saying littering is ok because some neanderthal teenagers do it.
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Our local pub had a really nice refurb, apart from they used a lot of fake plastic lawn in their beer garden. They are getting a lot of backlash over it, I wouldn't be surprised if they change it.
There are grass mixtures specifically designed for very low light/no light environments:
https://thegrasspeople.com/steadfast-ultra-shade
I took a walk around the estate I live in which is about 5 years old and the amount of plastic grass is increasing every time... Some look "ok" but others are shocking
I have a real grass lawn front and back and I keep it cut regularly which is also why I have stripped and prepped a circa 8m² patch ready for wildflower seeds in Sept (about ¼ of the garden)
This corner of the garden also has a couple of birdboxes and I will get a couple of big old logs that have started to rot to place in there as well for the bugs... I currently have a new Kilmarnock Willow planted there about 4 months ago.
Trying to do my bit for biodiversity...
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Plastic grass is just so utterly plebian.
Absolutely darling, it's just not haute couture!
So it's ok for the owners to slap down posh slate/granite etc that's if they can afford it otherwise a concrete slab. You would be better off planting oak trees instead of having ago at plastic grass