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Why don't Americans plant trees and bushes of stuff that they can eat in their houses instead of having useless grass? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks, you explained better than I would have. I was going to go on a tangent about Louis XIV showing the other aristocrats his new "lawn" concept.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hey, thanks!

I have to point out, Versailles did have quite a bit of lawn and certainly helped, but the concept of decorative short grass predates it, and even existed in the some of the American civilisations using a totally different plant IIRC. The Wikipedia article notes several medieval examples.