Weve all seen it, weve all pointed at it and weve pretty much all lived beside it. The yard with tacky written all over it. What makes a house look like it is from What Not to Wear. Bottom line is its you and your taste and love of dollar store trivialities. Or, its your friends and family and your weak-willed nature that fills your front yard with the abominable, plastic doodads. Well, stop it! Trade your crooked, bent-over, gardeners spine for a straight sunflower backbone.
Heres how to tell if your yard is part of the tacky tourist tour in your city:
You have a ? barrel spilling purple petunias (and the odd weed surrounded by a medium-sized rock and a round dug-out area.
You have white, quartz pebbles in any part of your garden and especially beside the driveway in rectilinear rows of what resembles poodle-droppings.
You leave-up and plug-in your multicolored Christmas lights all year round.
You have a ceramic goose and you dress it up for all holidays including your dogs birthday.
You buy inflatables, of any variety
even at Christmas, they are not cool and if you have more than one be prepared for midnight pin-attacks
to watch it die slowly.
Too many colors in your planting arrangement. Red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue
I can see a rainbow, see a rainbow, see a rainbow too. Enough said.
Even worse then that??? Fake flowers. So, you have a black thumb or youre just lazy
let it go. Put some grass seed down instead. Fake flowers can melt in the sun, be covered with cat urine and they fade PDQ.
If you buy the following plants you are borderline (mind the pun) tacky: marigolds, petunias and begonias. These plants are wayyyy out of fashion (unless you grow marigolds in your herb gardens to put on salads). Cmon, really, get with the times and accept change. Go wild, throw in the odd Japanese Anemone or ornamental grass or really go crazy and throw in a gigantic allium that is bigger than your kids head.
Garden sculptures and garden ornaments are all about the usage. So, you like garden gnomes. Garden gnomes are great, but moderation is the key. Or, if youre overly excited about the seven-million dwarfs, at bare minimum, keep them against the perimeter fence and out of the direct view of your neighbors windows. If you have them on your front lawn, whistling while they work, and NONE go missing by the end of the season, you know a) that no one wants the monstrosities and b) there are no such things as dwarfs or gnomes that come to life at night (or fairies for that matter).
Plastic
anything plastic (not resin that looks like concrete) is a huge no, no! Think, would you put that in your house (well, you probably would if you have any of these yard and garden features listed)? If you wouldnt, than think about this
your neighbors get a first impression of the interior of your home, by looking at the exterior. Also, your garden should be an extension of your home, like a room of its own.
House Butterflies. Ok, they were cute in the late 70s. You know what? No, they werent even cute then. I bet some people have not bought a house that was up for sale because of the orange, metal monarch butterflies bolted to the side of the house instead of blissfully on their way to the mountains of Mexico.
A car on blocks looks, well, quite frankly abysmal.
Grass. Cut the stuff. If its soooo long you get bikini rash and wild animals come for dinner then you know its too long.
Flags. One or two decorative flags are nice, provided you dont have any of the other stuff listed here, but more than that and oh my.
If you are reading this, chances are you have some style and pizzazz which follows through to a stylish garden. Therefore, there is that person on your street that has many of these items. My advice to you: walk by and note the number of the house, print off this article and mail it anonymously. Feel free to add your own notation about that one thing that drives you crazy
sit back and watch the bonfire.
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