Re:Oakland bans the use of combustion engine-powered leaf bl...
by nineplay on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:47PM
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Plants, grass, and trees are pretty. People tend to feel good looking at them rather than just concrete, asphalt, and plastic. Lawns attract birds and bees and butterflies and bugs. I don't think there's any real mystery about why people like lawns.
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Re:Oakland bans the use of combustion engine-powered leaf bl...
by anaerobicover on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:52PM
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Well, small proviso: yards with (flowering) plants attract birds, bugs, etc. Wide expanses of constantly-mowed grass lawn do not so much.
Re:Oakland bans the use of combustion engine-powered leaf bl...
by sokoloff on Saturday March 06, 2021 @06:44AM
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The grass part of my yard feeds many rabbits and birds (grass and worms, respectively). Other than when covered with snowpack, it’s rare to go two days without seeing a rabbit and birds are feeding every morning, especially after rains (that bring the worms higher). This is in a small city yard that’s mostly grass.
Re:Oakland bans the use of combustion engine-powered leaf bl...
by anaerobicover on Saturday March 06, 2021 @07:02PM
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Sure, rabbits are happy enough with mowed grass, but if you asked them, they'd probably rather you didn't cut the tender tips off all the time. :) And the species of birds that hunt worms in the ground are a very small subset of what you could find in a city. (I would venture you're mostly seeing robins.)
Re:Oakland bans the use of combustion engine-powered leaf bl...
by Barrin92 on Friday March 05, 2021 @06:40PM
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that's an argument for a nice garden you find in the British countryside, but the manicured American suburban lawn looks like something ordered out of an ecommerce store, factory produced. Actually urban concrete jungle is more interesting.