What do you call that grassy area around your house?
lawn?
yard?
what's grass, I live in the city :bigass:
We call it the yard
Yard.
Pride Lands.
Depends on how good the grass grows.
Yard, covered with lawn. Does that make sense? I'm walking around my yard and thinking that I need to mow the lawn.
yard.
Grass.
The backyard in the back, the lawn in the front. :hmmm:
Yard, but "mow the lawn"
We call it garden over here.
Depends on the size of the property. At my parents' house (single-family house, corner lot, no fences) I refer to the lawn. At my house (townhouse in the middle of a row, large hydrangea bush takes up a lot of space out front, back has a fence around it) I refer to the front yard or the backyard, but I would say I'm going outside to cut the grass. I no longer say "mow the lawn" at my house because the hydrangea is big enough that I don't use the mower any more, not enough space to maneuver it, so I use the weed-whacker to cut the grass. If I were at my parents' house I'd say "mow the lawn."
Both, I've never stuck to either. Apparently it is "lawn" where I'm from since we have "Lawn Nazis" in Michigan.
The Yawn :bigass:
For me, it's been the back yard, front lawn, and the side yard. Don't have a good reason why, other than that's what my parents always called them when it was time to mow.
The yard is the property as a whole, including trees, shrubs, sheds, and the grass. Lawn and grass are synonymous.
Yard
Yard....
Unless it needs to cut then its "the grass".
I mow the lawn, but rake the yard. Same piece of land.
To me, a yard is an area, a piece of land, and a lawn is a nice, maintained patch of grass. A lot of homes around here have yards covered by whatever happens to be growing that occasionally gets mowed. Some homes have actual lawns; some have yards but no lawns.
Where i grew up on a barrier island on the Jersey Shore the ground was sandy and grass would not easily grow... Some people had stones as their yard..
One older guy a friend of my grandfather on the next street had a keep of the grass sign.. At 7 years old we thought that was hillarious.
Lawn implies grass.. Yard is the property.. " the house has an acre yard but half if if is still wooded"
LGMS428
Quote from: wxfree on May 13, 2017, 10:12:06 PM
To me, a yard is an area, a piece of land,
Around here, that would be "a field" unless it is covered by trees, then it's "the woods."
I've used "yard", "lawn" and "garden" interchangeably for years. Never had a name for the "front yard" but the "back yard" was often called "out back". Besides the front and back, only one side of the house had grass (other side was rock). That was usually the "side garden".
Front yard, back yard, side yard, mow the yard or mow the grass, feed the grass, switch the yard....oh wait.
It's a yard, unless you're talking about just the grass, then it's the lawn. (Get that car off the lawn.)
Grassy land that looks like shit.
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What does Clint Eastwood think?
Quote from: allniter89 on May 13, 2017, 02:53:35 PM
What do you call that grassy area around your house?
lawn?
yard?
what's grass, I live in the city :bigass:
We call it the yard
The lawn is the grassed area itself.
The yard is the area not occupied by building(s), and is usually not all grassed, it can include planters, hedges, patios, etc.
A garden is something where a plant other than grass is grown -- such as a garden for vegetables or a flower garden.
Quote from: hbelkins on May 15, 2017, 04:10:24 PM
A garden is something where a plant other than grass is grown -- such as a garden for vegetables or a flower garden.
Regional differences. "Garden" is an acceptable synonym for "yard" outside of North America. Even within the US, "yard" is acceptable synonym for "garden" (see here (//http://))
If you have a lot of plants, vegetables, or flowers, you may refer to your "yard" as a "garden" (because that's chiefly what it has become). My grandmother refers to her "backyard" as her "garden", but her "front yard" as such.
A meter.
Here in the Maritimes....I go out in the yard to cut the grass. A Lawn is what my neighbor has and it's very distinct on his side of the property line......meticulously fertilized, watered and cut!
"Pain in the ass that takes two hours to mow"
Quote from: wanderer2575 on May 13, 2017, 03:32:33 PM
Yard, covered with lawn. Does that make sense? I'm walking around my yard and thinking that I need to mow the lawn.
This is how I think of it too.