American Reacts to UK vs USA Yards (Gardens)

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[@MyOutdoorsUK]

Lawrence lost the right to comment on the differences between the UK and USA about 10 years ago. He's been in the USA so long has he no real idea of life in the UK these days. His "expertise" is seriously limited to an outdated time and based on where he used to live not the whole country.

[@webbsfan1]

Exactly why I can't watch his drivel.

[@WookieWarriorz]

​@@webbsfan1he also intentionally represents the UK badly which is fine for a comedy video roast away but when you're pretending to be educational you should actually stop the jokes Americans don't even get haha.

[@braddo7270]

I agree, I can't stand his misinformation 🤦🏼‍♂️ really winds me up.

[@braddo7270]

​@@WookieWarriorzhe does it to be in Americans favours. He left for a reason.

[@H20.]

He's a pain in the arse, who tries to be funny and quirky, and the Americans lap it up 🙄

[@ruthfoley2580]

A yard is paved. A garden has lawns & plants.

[@hollycook7497]

It's all called a garden in the UK. No one says yard

[@lynnejamieson2063]

@@hollycook7497 I’m from the UK and I have a yard not a garden in my current home, as like the original comment states, a yard is essentially a small outdoor area that is either fully paved or concreted and was mostly used as functional not decorative area when the properties were built (mostly during the Victorian and Edwardian eras) and are mainly the outside area connected to Victorian and Edwardian terraced houses in inner city areas that were for the working (poorest) class. Where I grew up in Scotland, it wasn’t called a garden either, the back garden was called the back green.

[@ashleyw6728]

​@@hollycook7497 and tbf in the uk our garden normal has a mix of both of those

[@Jill-mh2wn]

@@hollycook7497 I have a paved courtyard ,no lawn, with my plants and small trees in pots . It`s in the UK but no way would I call it a garden.

[@djs98blue]

@@Jill-mh2wn I think brits in closely packed terraced houses, with a paved area behind their house, sometimes say back yard. What's strange is that Americans have opted to extend this term for a small area to the massive areas they have around most of their houses!

[@grahambeadle9067]

Hmmm JT you need to take what this guy says with a pinch of salt, He has not lived in the UK for such a long time,

[@DGLUK1]

Why did Lawrence only show horrible British gardens? Most English gardens are lovingly tended and, usually, have a lawn surrounded by shrubs, trees and flowers. Mine, and most of the people I know have lovely gardens.

[@marksymms6246]

He's such a miserable Brit, lol. Very good with info, but English gardens are a lot nicer than what he showed. If you want to grow your own food, you can use your garden or use an allotment

[@carlh429]

Because he’s an out of touch tool who is playing to his American audience.

[@Jill-mh2wn]

He thinks he`s funny and his videos are all to curry favour with the Americans . From many comments, he is so out of touch with UK life that he is not interesting to British people, mostly now.

[@ashleywilson5523]

I mean it depends where you live in the UK. I've seen some council estate Gardens wow they are bad, but then you get your lovely areas, and well kept Gardens 😊

[@dave_h_8742]

RHS Open gardens scheme shows off some of the best

[@aaroncunningham3000]

As others have said, a yard doesn’t have grass. That’s why shipyards, schoolyards, etc are called yards not gardens.

[@janolaful]

We also have grave yards.

[@Starfyrez]

@@janolaful Although a graveyard has grass in which to bury the dead so why don't we call it a grave garden instead

[@HalfdeadRider]

@@Starfyrez Because not having grass doesn't mean it's a yard and not a garden and vice versa, call it what you want.

[@urmum3773]

@@StarfyrezIt's called a cemetery in England

[@peterbrown1012]

Oh no! Not Lawrence again , he hasn't a clue.

[@bobbybigboyyes]

Correct! With the crap he talks it's like he never lived in Britain at all, and the part he lived in was crap anyway, and not a true representation of Britain. Even some Americans know more about Britain than clueless Laurence does!!

[@user-ox9ec1id9x]

A Yard is an enclosed space, usually hard paved & surrounded by buildings. It is often used for working purposes , such as a Farm Yard or Stable Yard. In towns it is often a small area belonging to a house, surrounded by other houses & neighbouring yards. This is often behind the house, hence the term 'Back Yard'. Any space larger than this belonging to a house, with lawns, flower beds, vegetable plots, trees & open spaces, is a Garden.

[@msscloclo]

I don't know what this Lawrence guys obsession is with people having washer dryers, I don't know a single person that has one. I have a separate washer and dryer 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@dave_h_8742]

Same.

[@rollason1000]

I have a washer-dryer. So do most people who only have room for one appliance, but need both. It's really quite common when you're pushed for space. Luckily that doesn't apply to you but there are 64 million people in the UK so it stands to reason that plenty of people have them, but they just aren't in your circle of friends!

[@msscloclo]

@@rollason1000 I live in a tiny 2 bed terrace so it's not like I have copious amounts of room. I'm sure quite a lot of people do have them but as I haven't visited every single household in the UK I could only comment on what I know which is that not a single person I know has one. This Lawrence makes it seem like it's the only way we do it and I was simply saying that isn't the case.

[@peterbrown1012]

@@rollason1000 they are still in the minority.

[@teresanew9247]

He's not at all funny and he is so critical of Britain!!

[@HyperDaveUK]

Yard used to be for Coal Yard in older city homes. that's why there's very little space in a yard compared to a Garden.

[@HalfdeadRider]

Some builders yards are big, and graveyards etc 😎

[@anta3612]

In Naples, Italy people hang their laundry on washing lines that hang from building to building with pedestrians walking on the street below.🤣🤣🤣

[@WookieWarriorz]

Americans act like drying your clothes is low class. I'm not even joking they don't get that it smells better they were sold an idea that you should use a dryer and they use their dryers constantly. They waste money on expensive machines and electricity bills. Makes you realise how much of a fucking waste of time all of Europes eco friendly shit is.

[@Graham.moore.1]

Do clothes ever fall off and land on people ?

[@anta3612]

@@Graham.moore.1 Occasionally. However, complaints tend to be more about wet laundry dripping on people. 🤣

[@terryoconnor5262]

We used to do that here in north west England too… even had a pulley system and (I can only think to keep the line under tension perhaps; I was only a small child) we had milk bottles hanging on the line at times 🤷‍♂️

[@leeandmandybattersby5958]

I love a good drying day nothing like getting in fresh bedding that was dried outside

[@irene3196]

Fed up now with weeks of rain and can hardly wait for the better weather when I can sit out in my garden and potter. Dreamy.

[@brilees2190]

We call a yard a hard standing floor ie.. concrete.. a fm garden is grassed with flower borders and a vegetable patch where you grow veggies

[@SimonJM]

Before you even start I am going to comment that I wish 99% of what this guy says had been 'lost in the pond'. We are all entitled to our own opinions, but please, do NOT try and pass them off as a majority opinion or fact. I may not know a huge amount about US culture and I know only a bit about UK culture as I have not lived everywhere in the UK, but I know enough to take anything he says with enough grains of salt to rival the output of a Siberian salt mine! 🤣

[@carlh429]

He hasn’t lived here for coming on for two decades and damn it shows!

[@Spiritof1955]

I like his tongue-in-cheek, dry sense of humour.

[@SimonJM]

@@Spiritof1955 We are all entitled to our opinions - some of his stuff is droll, but most does annoy me, sadly.

[@sylviagreybe672]

The laundry situation: I grew up in South Africa: no one has tumble driers, and the clothes dry in 20 minutes outside. Now I live in Scotland. Enough said.

[@stephenwraight4184]

Yard is hardstanding, if it has grass/plants it's a garden

[@spencercorker7013]

In the UK. A garden is an area to the rear and or front of your house and has a lawn. A yard is paved or concreted. Gardens in my experience are usually bigger than yards. Yards tend to be pokey and small.

[@grandmabaddie]

Gardens in the countryside of u.k are very large. I live just outside the city , i have a pretty big garden with a pond, waterfall alot of banana plants with an abundance of flowers and fruit tree's . I have many visitors in my garden, bluetits, coaltits, robins, finch , bullfinch, house sparrows, blackbirds, sparrow hawks and many more . I also have hedgehog 's , squirrels, rabbits visit . The robins and bluetits now land next to me when im out in garden. The robins and blackbirds follow me when im digging to grab the worms 😂. I love it. I would love to design a garden as large as yours

[@wildadventure5101]

Same here. I got quite a large garden and live in the countryside. It's so nice to see all the wildlife. And I don't think I could live with a small garden.

[@coopz1969]

In the uk a yard is brick a garden is grass etc

[@Howay.Man.Angelica]

If it's paved and at the back of your property, it's a yard. A back yard to be precise. If it's got grass in it, it's either a back or front garden.

[@johnp8131]

Lawrence Brown is clueless! Besides not having lived here for nigh on 20 years he doesn't exactly originate from a thriving metropolis either! I went to Grimsby once, it was closed!

[@frankhooper7871]

By accident, I presume?

[@dcarbs2979]

Why would he have to be from a 'thriving metropolis'? Last time I looked, metropolises were the least representative of England you can get. English people being a minority in those areas.

[@shelleyjackson8793]

I think the USA should do something about the states/cities that have banned outdoor drying. It’s against the future of humanity. Tumble dryers are not the way forward. Also, I am 60 years old in the UK and I have never known ANYONE who has/had a combined washer dryer. This is a misnomer. They may be available to buy but they are really not the norm at all.

[@susanwestern6434]

I am 66 and have had 2 washer/dryers over about 30 years. Because I lived in terraced houses with tiny kitchens. I mean tiny as in one person wide from one lot of units to the other. Two thin people could pass each other, just. In one house there was no central heating, and I worked unpredictable hours in hospitality. In the other house it was much the same.

[@jackiedavis9349]

Nothing nicer than getting your bedding dried outside then putting it back on the bed. Snuggling down to that outdoors smell always make me sleep better that night 😀

[@wildadventure5101]

Expect with it is full of pollen. It has happened to me a few times and it makes it feel like someone spilt toast in my bed. Lol

[@jduck1979]

Older front gardens (like pre-1980's) usually have a small patch of grass to one side of the driveway. But in recent years loads of people seem to have started paving over the damn things to squish more cars into their front yards. Newer houses barely even have a front yard because of developers trying to squish as many houses into one space as possible, so only have a stubby driveway barely just big enough to squeeze a Honda Civic or Nissan Rogue type thing onto it. Usually have bigger lawn and garden to the rear, though not so much on newer houses. Going off google earth measurements, our backyard and garden is about 92ft x 26ft.... while my sister's last house (relatively new build) only had one 26ft x 14ft. Some places have a fire pit (more likely a gas based thing), but there has been a trend for those chiminea things...... you might see Britain's craziest science KZbinr "PhotonicInduction" messing around with his in a few of his videos. Barbeque most likely to be a disposable thing or a charcoal hibachi....... if more extravagant a £300 portable gas or electric thing. Garden birds..... mosly see "House Sparrows", "Blue Tits" and "Great Tits" in ours (real bird names)..... most commonly hear owls + seagulls. Traditionally lawns would've been cut with a cylinder lawn mower such as with vintage British brands "Atco" or "Suffolk Punch", but these days more likely to be done with a crappy electric rotary mower like used in the rest of the world. A UK based KZbinr with the channel "Proper DIY" has a video setting up a modern made traditional style mower..... super rare in the US... think only a brand called "California Trimmer" make them over there.

[@molliesmomma]

In some terraced houses, the middle houses, quite often have to go through your garden to get to the road. Sometimes you may have as many as 8 houses/neighbours who have access through your garden to the street. You could be washing dishes and the neighbour will walk right outside your kitchen. Knock on the window and wave “good day/bye” to you. I’ve seen this more when I’ve lived in Yorkshire.

[@anta3612]

When I lived in Colorado I dried my clothes outside in summer and in winter I could hang them anywhere (even directly in the closet/wardrobe) since it's so dry they would be dry within a couple of hours even when it was ridiculously cold.

[@johexxkitten]

Like many here saying Lawrence isnt exactly the best source of info about Britain anymore. Hes been stateside of the pond for too long, over a decade since he LIVED here, visiting doesn't really count. Since he's been gone things have modernised, houses being built are NOTHING like he grew up in. After a long time of TV shows showing how to "design your home" we are now inundated with shows about gardening. Many have "cottage garden" style gardens with stunning plants, but MANY now use the back garden like another room in their house. Gardens have for probably most people become entertaining spaces with space for the kids to run around in. Gardens in the UK are not at all like the kind he grew up in. My own back garden was torn out and landscaped last October, half of our garden is paved patio, some gravel areas and a small strip of lawn. There's no plants at all yet, now its speing we plan to start getting the planting started, it's s probably going to take a whole cycle of a year to add the planting we want and probably another year for everything to settle in. But we ordered our garden furniture, a outdoor corner sofa area with a fire table, a dining set with huge umbrella, a "kitchen area" with BBQ, Pizza Oven, Bar and a fridge in the Shed so people can grab beer & drinks without having to go into the house constantly. We have taken ages to choose the lighting we want out there... And this is by no means unusual, this is somewhat the norm now. So gardens in the UK have changed massively since Lawrence had a garden here. A great many dont even have real grass anymore, the AstroTurf type of lawn is common too. Many front gardens have either shrunk or gone completely, on my street (approx 70 properties) alone I think maybe 3 have typical flower & lawn gardens, a few have half to lawn & planting the other half is now paved as a driveway for their car/cars. But by far most properties have turned the entire front garden into driveways.

[@janolaful]

He is no longer british he's american I use to sub to him but no longer

[@teresanew9247]

We have wood pigeons, collared doves in our garden plus feral pigeons under our solar panels on the roof, they are so noisy, like flying rats. I love to hang my washing outside in the summer.

[@ElizabethMackenzie69]

We've never had a tumble dryer. We dry our washing on maidens and radiators in Winter, and outside on a line in Summer.

[@sharonellis8776]

I have a paved yard with a rotary washing line. I use it for storing my recycle bin. xx

[@susanwestern6434]

That was a Wood Pigeon. The other pigeons are feral domestic ones that come in different colours and patterns.

[@TanyaRando]

I love the smell of clothes dried outside. I use radiators, and clothes horses too, but my iron is rusting in a box 😂😂😂

[@karenbeamish6907]

Lawrence is not a bad guy! He is telling us what he is familiar with ! We can all check things out for ourselves ! I live in NY state but my perception might be different from another New Yorker, even someone one just down the road! We all grew up how we all grew up, differences and all! Relax! Enjoy the content and kindly let each other know how things have changed and what your own experience was/is. I love Lawrence and JT and Anna!

[@MyOutdoorsUK]

He's not a bad guy, he just doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. He's not lived in the UK for nearly 20 years and has next to no experience living in different parts of the UK or living here as an adult.

[@WookieWarriorz]

This guys videos are just terrible he clearly never lived in the uk as an adult and only has experience with where he grew up in england. Imagine someome whos childhood was in chicago in the 90s living in europe and telling people his experience is how all the usa is. 'in america we take the train to school and eat deep dish pizza'. Youd have most americans like 'huh ?????'

[@joyridgway6398]

Our gardens can be so small that you can only put your bins in it, so you only call it a yard. Then there are courtyards up to almost a field or arces of land.

[@WookieWarriorz]

It's the same with the USA. This idea that they have giant homes with giant gardens isnt true haha for some states it's much more common but having seen jps videos in his home I think my 2 floor apartment I pay £600 a month for might have more square footage than their house. If you're ever travelling the USA actually look at 90% of then houseses theyre basically UK detached houses without the hedgerows, gardens etc and from experience 95% of people don't do anything to their garden but cut the grass also a lot of houses are bungalows or ranch style they don't have a second floor.

[@joyridgway6398]

@WookieWarriorz is true, but I doubt I'll be travelling to the USA.

[@anta3612]

Here in the S. West of England I hear wood pigeons, collard doves, blackbirds, crows and seagulls on a regular basis. I love the sound of woodpigeons, though, especially on a warm summer's day.

[@claregale9011]

We are a nation of gardeners , you'll see people out pruning , cutting lawns , potting plants . They can be small or large doesn't matter we do our best to make them look lovely 😊

[@TheBerzerker666]

the bird noise Lawrence first made was of a collared dove not a pigeon

[@LastEuropaKiss]

Wood Pigeons do make a similar noise, I think he just wasn't that good at imitating it.

[@paulgee1355]

I dont understand why so many of these videos give the impression that all us Brits use combination washer dryers and that we dont use seperate washing machines and tumble dryers. In all my life, im 56, I've never known many people at all that had combis because they've always had a reputation for being crap at both washing and drying. My parents always had washing machines and seperate tumble dryers and i've never owned a combi, i've always had seperate tumble dryers because they do a good job. They are hugely popular here, all my family had them, all my friends parents had them when we were young and all my friends and relatives now have them. Don't believe the lie.

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

I've been saying this for a while. I'm 71 and have never seen a combi in a home. They're really quite rare.

[@cjlister8508]

Maybe it's because you guys are old? (And/or rich?) I'm 38 and have never known anyone who had separate washer dryers. They are always combined. (Or washer only and hang to dry)

[@onyxstewart9587]

I have a combo but never use the dryer part as it sucks. I just hang my clothes up either outside or on the radiators

[@asseyez-vous6492]

Oops. Same age as you. I’ve had a washer dryer for over 30 years (not the same one). I’m a big believer on pegging out and I’m expert at knowing if the weather is good enough for it. Dryer is only used in exceptional crappy weather, which has been all the time this past few months. It works brilliantly, actually. 😊

[@vixenghoul]

I have separate dryer and washing machine and I have a chain linked fence but I put a wooden fence up for privacy but it’s still there.

[@webbsfan1]

Oh dear, its him again.

[@retroghetto7646]

During lockdown here, everyone pimped out their gardens,we now have an abundance of fire pits, hot tubs and tiki bars.

[@claireloulouu86]

The crazy thing is. I’ve known that morning sound from the birds for my entire life and only now do I know where it comes from 😂

[@OneTrueScotsman]

Lots of homes in the UK have gardens/yards. The Brits love their gardening. I on the other hand, don't have a garden, and I am happy that I don't. I don't have the time or interest in keeping up with the grass, bushes, and privets, etc.

[@alisonrodger3360]

There's a few videos on here of Bents Garden Centre in Warrington worth checking out, there's dinosaurs!!

[@sarahbuckley2564]

I'm in Uk, we have a fire pit and a pond.

[@DavG_NZ]

On the fire pit subject may I suggest building a hangout area half-way between the Pond and the Food Garden Bed, with fire-pit in the middle and a small outdoor kitchen. 👍 From what I've seen in video's it'd be the perfect spot to hangout, with a view of the pond and cook the food you're currently tryna grow.

[@guanxvi]

The idea of having frogs and crickets keeping you awake in the middle of the night is nuts. The people who have American sized yards over here we call gentry.

[@helenwood8482]

What you call a garden, we call a flowerbed.

[@ravenfaebowie]

I live in a very hilly area, so I have a fairly large front garden compared to most , but it's sloped. And the back garden is smaller, so that's where we have a little pond and have out BBQ out in the summer

[@OrganMusicYT]

Back in the 90s, during my childhood in Scotland, the older generations took great pride in their gardens. They meticulously maintained lawns, and colourful flower borders, some even added hanging baskets, window boxes, and trellises for climbing roses. It was a sight to behold, with some opting for hedges while others chose fences. There weren't that many cars on the roads, it was safe to play on the street, and you could kick a ball around all day without having to worry about hitting someone's car. The backyards often featured a well-kept lawn with a washing line, a greenhouse or two, and vegetable patches. Despite the hard work involved, it was a cost-effective way to grow produce like carrots, onions, cabbage, tomatoes, and cucumbers, with some even cultivating grapes. Unfortunately, this tradition has faded away as the older generation has passed on, and most people now use their front yards as parking spaces - people need to commute farther for work, more cars on the road, and many people don't have the time nor money to work on a garden anymore.

[@margaretnicol3423]

You should take a look at Skara Brae on Orkney (Scottish island). It's older than the pyramids!

[@lolsaXx]

The biggest difference between everything in America and the UK is size. But yes, my parents too live in a house they built in the middle of a big field. There is just a lot more grass than at yours. We call the garden the bits that are well kept or landscaped around the house with play things for grandchildren and clothes lines. They also have a veggie garden too and a hen coop but, the rest of the land they just call "the field."

[@TheIconsofsin]

Uh me and my friend quite often do sword fighting in the garden, i will say we are both martial arts and weapons trained so be safe

[@BogusDudeGW]

I live in a small cul-de-sac on the edge of a small village in Yorkshire. Its a new build with the smallest garden i've ever had along with drainage issues so i've had to play smart. I grow fruit and veg. Front garden is that small its basically a strawberry patch with gooseberry and blueberry bushes. Around the back the garden has been pretty much dropped down to the bedrock with a 7' wall at the back and a 6'6" fence sat on top of it where the house behind me has been raised to the height of the 7' wall, its like a roof top catching water and landing on a sloped garden with 2" of top soil on it. I have water barrels on the house, shed and greenhouse, raised beds all round the boundary of the garden with a woodchip path alongside and it still gets waterlogged. Only been in the house a year so still working on it, be glad when i get my last frost next week and can start putting stuff out to help soak things up. A little apple or plum tree would help a lot but its really not an ideal spot for one and would take up too much sunlight, the plum tree i had in my last place got as tall as the house. Apart from the homesteaders all i ever really see from American gardens is grass, and tbh even though we've seen a bit of a surge in "prepper gardening" since the lockdowns, most of our youth can't be bothered either and we're moving in the same direction. I've been growing my own for about 15 years or so now, make my own jams, dehydrate, PC/WB, freeze. Just wish i had as much grass as you to fill up my compost bins.

[@BogusDudeGW]

oh and yeh i've pretty much always had a fire pit, nothing fancy just a little one. When i get a new washer or dryer i'll strip the old one down and use the drum as a fire pit, flip the pulley on the rear around and it makes an idea stand, use the stone weight as a hearth to catch any falling ash

[@suefinnegan6185]

I have a small walled garden at home, but I also have an allotment to grow fruit and veg. Plus we have loads of local parks.

[@anta3612]

I have a stone wall that surrounds the property where I live. All neighbouring houses (including mine) are Victorian buildings.

[@daisysunshine1324]

I’m in the U.K. I have a fire pit, but I also have an unusually large garden. I can say that dug fire pits like mine aren’t that common, but lots of people have purpose bought iron fire pits or terracotta fire urns (can’t remember their proper name). My friend comes from something called New York countryside, I don’t think it’s in Manhattan or the Bronx somehow. 😂 I’ve seen pics and her parents land is beautiful. What she calls the pond, that they grew up swimming in, to us would be called a muddy mini lake. Lol. Something only our British ducks would appreciate being in. In our gardens, ponds are lined with plastic sheet or a pre-shaped plastic or fibreglass ‘tub’. They are usually only a couple of meters wide and have water plants and fish in. Plus the occasional frog that decides to make it their home. Normally the water is circulated by a pump. If you try to splash in it on a hot day, you’ll get shouted at (or maybe that’s just my childhood experience 😂). I can’t wait for the first warm week so I can wash all the bedding, hang it all outside to dry and smell of sunshine and outdoors. As it’s just me and my son, I only have a little fold up airer. Although I did used to have a rotary line. That was good for duvets, but now I hang them over my hammock lol. We are almost there, a handful of weeks and outside drying will commence. I can’t wait. Ps. Ladybugs are freaking evil. They like biting me for some reason & it bloody hurts. 😂

[@evelynwilson1566]

We have a lovely English country garden style back garden, although we' re in Scotland. Walk through any suburb or village and you' ll see a huge variety of gardens. In Scotland they are usually small. The pigeons you get are maybe feral pigeons, which tend to be more in town centres here. We get wood pigeons, all sorts of garden birds, you can hear a barn owl at night, and fields and woods at the bottom of the road, with views of the nearby hills. My town is growing a lot at the moment though and of course it's mainly expensive houses. In my area they are building above old coal mines and on flood plains with little thought to the infrastructure, environment or communities.

[@Cat-yn6mk]

My grandma lived in an old-fashioned two up two down Terrace. We called the garden the yard it was paved. Also she would dry her washing in the entry all year round. Raining or not.(entry is the passageway between two houses.) the clothes would be pegged on her house side of the passageway

[@janice506]

I’m in Scotland where we have a front & back garden. We’re not as crowded as England up north.

[@mikeblake1000]

My 'yard' here in England, is four feet wide, and about 20 feet long, and it is concreted. No room for plants, and hardly any sun to reach them if we tried to grow anything.

[@oopsdidItypethatoutloud]

1 advantage of having small to no garden is, parks get packed. So humans still meet humans. Every cloud ❤

[@JackNap1er14]

speaking of ponds, my sister's mother-in-law had one with a little turtle in it, cute little critter

[@EmilyCheetham]

The size of the garden/yard in UK all depends where you live. In the country you might get a big garden, in the city a small garden, or no garden, or a communal garden. Iv live in houses with small, medial and large gardens in uk.

[@chrisperyagh]

That's a feral pigeon call he did - a wood pigeon call is longer.

[@OllyO-gt8pg]

people tend to have yards in front and gardens in the back as they are more private, and it depends on the style of housing stock in a praticular area, some have front and back gardens from 6ft to 6 acres lol.

[@robertcooper3133]

We mostly have burning bins but a few have fire pits

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

I enjoy Lawrence's humour, but his comments on issues such as this are long outdated insofar as most of the UK is concerned. His experience in England is also limited to an urban centre in a comparatively economically poor area. My son & his husband's garden in SW London is about 4000 sq m. Another son, a research student in Edinburgh shares a house with a similar sized garden. In the US and the UK, garden sizes vary greatly. Those in Montana or rural Wales may the size of an entire neighbourhood in the Bronx or Tower Hamlets.

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

A garden is where you grow plants , with a lawn if it's big enough . A yard is usually a hard surfaced area . Either way you are lucky to have one or the other and they are much smaller than most places in the US . My Washing day is carefully selected by weather I've always used a line but there are folding umbrella lines that can be put up quickly that are popular .

[@dorothysimpson2804]

I have never had a garden. Our back yard was paved, when we had a new kitchen and bathroom extension it took all of the yard away. The front of my middle terrace is straight onto the street. We call them "ladybirds".

[@owainharris]

People use clothes lines in Australia and New Zealand also, but a large reason for that is that most people don't have gas, and the electricity costs add up. My HOA in the South bans outside clothes lines. It did take me a while to get used to the lack of fences, it feels more common on the East Coast. Also yes, the frogs here are CRAZY loud at night right now (I love it ... natural 'white noise').

[@kathrynmartyn2013]

you have feral pigeons in the US, we have those as well in the UK, we also have crickets and grasshoppers

[@normanwilson4450]

I live in scotland, and we have so many midges! they are tiny little flys and they are everywhere in the summer! like really bad lol

[@alisonrodger3360]

Grand Designs had a house with a pond, the most amazing pond & The Watershed, Chichester is now on AirB&B! Honestly, it's the Pond of dreams 😁

[@jillybrooke29]

Our neighbour has a fire pit next to my 6ft wooden fence, ugh. I do have a bbq and did have a small fish pond

[@amandabrown352]

Had to smile today i have my bedding and clothes out on the line in the back garden to dry

[@angelahawman4263]

You have just lined yourself up beautifully. If there was ever a reason for you to have Highland cows, problems mooing 😁 a 10 acre field!🐮🐮🌄

[@dayday2k23]

Litrally done all this today in my garden just planted new headge dryed my washing on line with a vist from pete and pearl the wood pidgeon who vist everyday😂😂😂

[@user-gt2ud2gw9e]

Ah, this is entirely dependant on suburbia versus City Centre. You don't expect to find gardens behind houses in Manhatten, so the same goes here.

[@andycale8831]

Anything posted by lost in the pond is bollocks

[@fishtigua]

I grew-up in a normal 14th century farm house. The 5th bedroom was for the nanny. Not joking.

[@jeanproctor3663]

We've got fairly big back gardens on the street I live on, in comparison to some gardens. The front is fairly big too, but they can be a nightmare to mow because we have clay soil that gets really boggy At the moment, we have a back swamp and front swamp because we've had a lot of rain over the past few months and the ground has held onto it. When it *does* get hot, the soil dries out and bakes, cracking in the heat, which can sometimes be a bit of a trip hazard. We use an electric mower, plugged into the mains to cut it.

[@BogusDudeGW]

I feel your pain, mines a quagmire atm too. I think the answer is to work on the top soil. Try doing a high cut first, then remove the box for the low cut and work the grass clippings in. Over time it should improve.

[@EmilyCheetham]

As a brit Iv seen sooo many different things to make gardens private. In the back - wooden fences, brick walls, hedges. In the from Iv seen open gardens, picked fences, low brick walls, high fences, flower beds, plant pots in a row/line. My I old house the street contained all of this & our house had some trees and flower beds edging the front lawn. My new house in the front the road side there’s a hedge and brick wall and to the side we have picket fence.

[@jasonsmart3482]

One thing noticed when I lived in NC the grass wasnt very nice, its wasnt soft and something you could just lie on like we can in the UK. Not sure if that was just generally or just the area I lived in.

[@carlh429]

Not out of touch Laurence again!

[@l3v1ckUK]

My dad's life ambition was to get a house with a garden and indoor toilet. The house he grew up in had a small (shared) tarmac yard and outside toilet. Both he, and my uncle, are avid gardeners as a result.

[@lynette50]

I have a dryer but I've never used it. I hang clothes out on good days and I have an old pulley suspended from a ceiling in my house, to hang clothes, I've also clothes horses that are free standing rails. And radiator saddles, rails that hang on radiators.. With the price of electricity and Gas, I would never use a dryer

[@molliesmomma]

My garden is 20 feet long and 16 feet wide, half of it is grassed the other half is paving slabs. It’s a perfect size for me.

[@royhardy407]

Pigeons are great to eat as are quail, you have to be careful to remove the shot. Frogs also, take off the back legs, fry in garlic and tomato with some nice baguette to soak up the garlic/tomato from the pan.

[@MrAshtute]

We can get 6 inches of rain here and after 3 days of hot sunshine you still need waders to walk in your street 🤪

[@carolineskipper6976]

Most British families do have tumble driers, but don't use them if they have a dry day and an outside space to hang a line, or place a rotary airer. Electricity is too expensive to use more than you have to! Plus I think these days environmental awareness plays a biggr part in people's choices than maybe in the States. People do have lawn sprinklers in the Uk- but often in summer months we have 'hose pipe bans' due to water shortages, and so they arent used during the very months they'd be most effective.

[@lolalouise9503]

@13:40 We call ladybugs, ladybirds in the UK because they can fly.

[@clairemarkham3485]

We call ladybugs- Ladybirds either they're red with black dots or black with orange dots on their wings

[@lisanelson9979]

I like pigeons even though they are considered vermin by some. Those big scary seagulls come to my house and they are big brutes. All the birds are ok with me as I leave out water when it gets too dry, and food. I swear my pigeons can hear me before I get out the front door!

[@asseyez-vous6492]

I love wood pigeons ❤

[@enemde3025]

A "yard" in the UK is a concrete area on an industrial site where stuff is loaded and unloaded onto lorries. Grass sprinklers are not a thing in the UK because our houses have water meters fitted, so we get charged for all the water we use. It's NOT free.

[@billyhills9933]

He really has missed out on the current crop of housing development. The area in front of the house is not likely to have grass on it. It's more likely to be a concrete apron where you can park a car or two so as not to put them on the road. The (back) garden is seldom going to have a larger footprint than the already small house, though it will have grass until the poor sunlight kills the freshly-lain turf. To add to security and make it feel more like a prison, it's going to have 6 foot high wooden fences surrounding it. And no back gate.

[@oopsdidItypethatoutloud]

I've just thought 10min to boil a kettle. How do you get a dryer to work 😂 ❤from North East England ❤️

[@tidekeeper2342]

Just started watching ya guys your bostin

[@XENONEOMORPH1979]

we still use clothes line and tumble dryer depending if it is a sunny day , Lawrence needs to update his videos to be honest many areas are different including my own as i live at the back of Bournville Cadbury a stone throw away , and hundreds of populated evergreen trees as such of other varieties , Our clothes line can be retracted into a small circular container when not in use . Which is viable as we have a polly tunnel and a gazebo for me to smoke outside as i do not smoke inside the house due to the over whelming of the family who do not smoke . My shed is a mancave so i can build pcs or build pcb boards for my use only building sdr .

[@TerryD15]

Despite what you define as a garden, the rest of the world widens that definition to include 'decorative' gardens where we also grow flowers and shrubs, perhaps a fruit tree or two, and yes nearly all have grass in the form of lawns. In fact, British lawns are famous for their quality and appearance. In your rural area you may have a lot of space but try telling that to the majority of Americans living in cities such as New York or in the suburbs. Think of the Brownstone apartments in New York, they have no garden space whatsoever, straight out on to the sidewalk, at least those old terraces in the UK have a yard to separate them from the pavement (sidewalk).