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the-flower-frog-boy · 1 year

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Today is cleaning day for me, but I was waiting for my laundry to get done and I was bored. So I made a guy! I need a name for this little guy, so here's a poll:

#new style of post!#a poll!#poll #polls #new animal #lil guy #art #my art #no flowers or frogs #no frogs #no flowers #crafting #artists on tumblr

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quilliums · 1 year

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Not sure if you answered this already, but I’ll bite: what is the purpose of the modern lawn?

Hey sorry this took a minute this got buried really quickly. I'm gonna answer this publicly because I get alot of shit asks for saying lawns aren't evil incarnate and you've asked without being an asshole so you win a real answer hon.

Ok I'll start by saying that the history or purpose of lawns that you see on Tumblr is not strictly not true. That being lawns coming from large English and French manors having these large gardens as buffer zones. That this became a status symbol in the 1700's? I think. So you know people mimicked this to get a piece of the status in colonial America. Unfortunately I'm only barely qualified to talk about the European to American lawn pipeline. So as I reference history later on I'm only referring to Europe and America, the fucking failure we all are.

Anyways this is true, BUT it is not the whole truth just one reason why plantations have long sprawling lawns leading up to the manor.

The history that predates this interpretation is that the word and concept of a lawn comes from the medieval concept of grazing of what we would call public land. They called it laund or launde or laune or landą. It's hard to tell exactly which comes first and where it comes from. You've got these old words from old English, old French, and proto German. These were open fields that served the community. They were most commonly used to graze the animals of the community and to provide buffer spaces between the communities farm's. This space was essential to the survival of these medieval villages. It's a part of history not really discussed much, but bush fires and forest fires could take entire villages if the fire could spread indiscriminately.

How this went from community service and fire safety to elite status symbol is kinda complicated. So short version is community owned -> owned by local lords -> included in lords estate -> exclusive to the lord -> used to keep community out of lords land. That's the gist of it, I don't know every detail of it and it's complicated.

So finally we get to the modern lawn right. Which servers a very important role just like public land used to. We don't have cattle to graze anymore, but we still have fires. Rampant fires. There's this trend that starts in the industrial revolution (it began before that but that's where you really see the impact) of city fires. People began living in very close quarters on a large scale. Not just at capitals, but the more regular appearance of what we would consider a town start to appear across Europe. As people stopped having to have space for cattle and farming and moved into housing that had no buffer between them a small fire could burn down an entire city. Like on the mid 1600's when London pretty much burned the ground.

As people settled America there was not only a cultural need for space, but a family living outside the reach of the original colonies was on their own. If your house was just in some trees somewhere if a forest fire came you died. Flat out. The common rule of thumb that is not enough anymore was five men, five men laid down which ended up being thirty feet-ish in practice. There was also a large need to be able to see a larger area surrounding your house which pushed the tree line back even further, shit was dangerous out there alone. That's a whole other topic though. Back on track. The difference between these mostly wood based buildings in a wooded area and modern only kinda wood based buildings in a non wooden area is temperature. An open wood fire generally only burns so hot (GENERALLY), a fire that's burning on a whole lot of different materials has a much bigger variation in temperature. A modern American house burns HOT, insanely hot actually. Hot enough to catch the inside of near by house on fire and burning it to the ground. Take the north complex California fire which burned down over 2,000 buildings. There's no building code in California that mandates a minimum fire distance, which for the temperature of a modern house for is atleast fifty feet. Ideally it's fifty feet on each side so almost a hundred feet altogether. Fifty feet is the minimum distance any flammable objects should be away from your house if your out in the woods which again can be more manageable temperature wise. If the near by structure is a building that can burn at 1,500 to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit then it needs it's own fifty foot buffer radius.

I swear we're getting to the lawn. Green living well manicured grass is hard to burn. It's internals contain a decent amount of water (it's why grass takes a lot of water to grow in dry climates). Living grass doesn't burn very hot and is hard to burn. It'll save your god damn life and all your worldly possessions as well. Which in America is your life, without house no job, without job no money, workout money no life. It's sad but simple.

That's not everything, but I just worked holiday mandatory over time over 60 hour work week because America is hell. Cut your grass it could save your life and your neighbors lives. ✌️

#weeds create space for dead plant matter #that shit burns instantly and at over 2000 degrees F #which is got enough to catch a house on fire at a distance #no weeds #no flowers #no trees #if you've got em that's what your gift feet of lawn starts home boy #it needs to be a learn becuz just dirt is asking to get killed in the next big storm and cause a mudslide that kills other people #roots help stop mudslides #this does completely gloss over the cultural status symbol of a lawn in the 20th century but I'm tired guys #so tired #and this is a rabbit hole that goes on forever #also sorry if this makes no sense my auto correct keeps trying to put head instead of grass and shit #and lawn to learn #I've gone back and tried to fix them but i don't think i got them all and I'm dyslexic #time for bed y'all

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ur-daily-inspiration · 1 month

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#art #draw #drawing #words #quotes #books #book quotes #flowers #flowercore #naturecore #cottagecore #aesthetic #artists on tumblr

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clairenatural · 1 month

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there's a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn't and the park service keeps thinking it's dead and then it keeps blooming! well they're removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they've said it's finally time for stumpy to go and they're going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they're also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral

#someone brought it flowers today...........#this half dead little tree that nobody thought would survive this long means everything to me

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landsccape · 2 months

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