Aside for the beauties of nature, there were also some intensely funny things at the Botanical Gardens.
See, for example, the following announcement explaining why the lawn is not perfectly manicured.
One thing that somebody from my country notices immediately in North America is how much care and effort people put in keeping the lawns absolutely perfect. In Ukraine, we just let them grow over with weeds that get so tall they reach up to one’s shoulder by the end of August.
This is why it’s so funny to see how the lawn-loving American people feel the need to apologize when the lawn hasn’t been trimmed for a short while.
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You want to see full-blown lawn obsessions, come to England!
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I’ll be there in exactly two weeks. 🙂
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I have a long-standing hatred of lawns and lawn care that comes from my childhood. See, even though grassy lawns do not to well in the South Florida tropical heat, and even though our front yard was almost completely shaded by a giant tree, my father insisted every year upon buying huge bags of grass seed and trying to grow a lawn in our front yard. So the new grass would grow, and my father would spend all day with the lawn mower, and then the tree (it was a deciduous tropical tree that shed its leaves every year around February) would grow new leaves, and they’d get thicker in no time, and no sunlight would get to the grass, and it would die. Of course we kids had to help with all of this and I hated yard work and being outside in the hot sun so I associate lawn care with horrible pointless hard work and trauma. (Also lawns take a lot of water and they are wasteful. If I had a house I’d put in pavement and sand and rocks and cactus and other desert plants.)
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