This was on the front page of Gumtree for my local area. 3 bedroom house, £700 pcm, plastic garden. Imagine your kids growing up with that as a garden
Maybe it suits the owners lifestyle. Maybe the ground conditions and aspect are not conducive to growing lawns and plants. Maybe they have disabilities that prevent them from maintaining a 'proper' garden. Maybe the astroturf is actually brilliant for the kids for ball games and year-round activities. Maybe people have different views on what their garden space 'should' look like. Maybe...
This was on the front page of Gumtree for my local area. 3 bedroom house, £700 pcm, plastic garden. Imagine your kids growing up with that as a garden
Maybe it suits the owners lifestyle. Maybe the ground conditions and aspect are not conducive to growing lawns and plants. Maybe they have disabilities that prevent them from maintaining a 'proper' garden. Maybe the astroturf is actually brilliant for the kids for ball games and year-round activities. Maybe people have different views on what their garden space 'should' look like. Maybe...
It's a rental property. Maybe the landlord has chucked down a cheap, poorly laid green carpet with the intention of chucking it in a skip in a few years time because laying a proper patio for your over-priced rental property is too much trouble and eats into their profits. Maybe this is the reality that the trend for cheap plastic grass has created. Maybe...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
On a side note, starting to see lots of plastic flowers and plastic bushes in local front 'gardens' these days. It's feels as if they think passers by are stupid and can't tell or something.
I've got an aunt that came to stay at my sister's house recently. Her kids spent days taking pictures of an 'owl' in a nearby garden only to realise it was plastic and never moved.
The astroturf on the rental property above is just a lazy landlord looking for a cheap way of tarting up a crappy yard... would have been better off with a deck IMO, that looks like the lowest grade of 'greengrocers' astorturf, it's not even fixed down by the look of it!
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
For the first time ever one of our clients (a housebuilder) has requested we put in plastic box hedging, to screen a safety balustrade on top of a high retaining wall. Our idea of pleached hedging planted in the gardens below, or evergreen climbers, were rejected.
I'd rather look at the balustrade than plastic hedging but hey ho.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
I'd agree @WillDB. No excuse for that abomination. Gravelling the whole area would have been better, and heaven knows what's under that! Or under that board, artistically lying against it!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Isn’t that a cement ramp @Fairygirl? Probably leading up to an area of concrete hard standing under the green undertaker’s sward. A trip hazard and a hard landing should anyone fall. Not at all suitable for children ... or anyone else for that matter. Can you imagine that area after heavy rain!?!?!?!
The landlord should be thoroughly ashamed. I don’t expect him to spend a fortune ... some tenants aren’t the best gardeners ... but a bit of honesty would serve both landlord and tenant better. 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don't understand why this ugly back yard of this rental property has anything to do with this thread. We know...plastic bad, real greenery good. Can we all move on, please. At least glad to hear @Tcrawford510 sorted the artificial turf issues they had.
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I've got an aunt that came to stay at my sister's house recently. Her kids spent days taking pictures of an 'owl' in a nearby garden only to realise it was plastic and never moved.
I'd rather look at the balustrade than plastic hedging but hey ho.
Or under that board, artistically lying against it!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.