The Complete History of Lawns (Documentary)
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2023
- G'day friends,
I thought it would be fun to explore the background to my industry, and have been putting this video together for a little while. I hope you enjoy it and learn something interesting :)
Cheers
Sean
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Your comment about a well kept lawn reflecting the homeowner, reminded me of what a property appraiser told me years ago. He said that he knew what to expect on the inside of a house by what he saw the outside. I’m sure that rings true including the lawn, trees, shrub condition in addition the outside house structure condition.
Hey thanks man. I got 5 to mow today, and it's 100+ degrees today. It's motivating to know I'm contributing to the beauty of the world and the heritage of lawn care.
Great Stuff Sean. May your RUclips channel grow as fast as our Queensland lawns.
Yes , lawn one week, have you seen the dog ? 2 weeks later
That was a fascinating insight into how lawn care evolved Sean and eloquently documented by yourself. If this was streamed by Netflix or mainstream television, it would be an instant success. Bless you and many thanks for sharing with us 💎💎💎
Great video Sean! I often think why don't I turn my lawn into a additional vegetable plot but always return to keeping the lawn. I just love having that green patch in the middle of my garden, mowing, feeding and watering it - though this summer in London is so wet I have only had to water it once. Love lawns love life!
After many years as a Humanities/Philosophy lecturer looking for clever and creative videos, I really like what you did here. I would add this to my list of interesting history documentaries for students to enjoy and ponder all the marvelous interconnections in the development of civilizations.
Glad you enjoyed it!
It was the European experience and not the Asian, African, or Arabian experience.
@hanaaa6394 That's fair
@@BladeMateLawnCare Connections are still to be found. Those European gardens were greatly influenced by the ancient gardens of Mesopotamia, for example, to be found in the art of the previous civilizations.
Sean's bio should now read former military, philosopher, horticulturist, historian and all round intellectual
Don't forget humanitarian!
Really well put together Sean !! I enjoyed this, it’s the only time anyone bothered to tell the tale !! 👍👍👍🇬🇧
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Well, this was def surprising! What a nice change of pace - educated me while I enjoyed myself. Thank you! I do have to say, while I love the sight of a well maintained lawn and I love the aroma of grass in the air, I have a love/hate relationship with lawns because I have a really bad grass allergy!!!
That was pretty cool! I enjoyed your history lesson 😀
I thoroughly enjoyed the change of pace, not your ordinary video. Family comes first! So take the time you need to take care of your loved ones. J.
Way to go Sean? I enjoyed your lesson very much. I never really thought about it,but now thanks to you I’m informed.💚
Not just a meticulous lawn care professional but a historian with awesome research and videography skills. Really enjoyed this Sean.
Thanks 👍
Well Sean…this was a first. Never heard of this history of the grass and how the love of lawn care was introduced. Man you come up with some interesting educational topics. Thank you for the research and time involved in putting this altogether. 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🇺🇸❤️
What an interesting mini lesson on the history grasses Sean. I guess the winter has slowed down your work load, now you have time to do other things like machine maintenance,, fishing catching up with mates etc. Cheers!!🥰💕👍👍
I love it! I love learning. This I think falls into what you didn't know you needed to know. Some of this I knew in general, but many things I didn't know. Thank you. BTW, although they are part of History, I think HOA's are horrible and should all be done away with. JMO
You are right about many people loving the smell fresh cut grass and/or hay for that matter. I think alfalfa hay is my favorite. I'd like to learn more about different species/varieties of grasses for lawns. I know a little, but more would be nice.
Well done Sean!!! Thank you for this bit of education on the lawn😊❤👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Informative, interesting change of pace. Graphics, factoids, pace all fluid and productive. Thank you for gifting us with this historical aspect. Claire, your children, we viewers certainly lucky ducks having you/your brains, intellect, humor, delivery technique and skill within our corporate circle of life. Refreshing.❤🎉😊
In my lifetime I've seen so many changes in law care. My grandparents had a front stoop with a vegetable garden in the back surrounding the clothes line and the picnic table where the adults played cards. My parents first yard was very pretty and cut with a manual push mower. I remember the roadway workers using sickles to cut the side of the road. My generation had gas powered push mowers. We pushed our acre lot for a decade before we got a riding mower. We used a sickle as well and hand clippers to trim the sidewalk. Yardwork was your weekend and mostly family fun time. Today mostly everyone in our neighborhood has a crew come and mow their lawns. We downsized but still pushed mowed until this year. We just got a riding lawnmower. In your 70s we're happy to still have the ability to keep it up ourselves. Weed eaters are amazing to me and you are the best whipper snipper on earth. I enjoyed this video. My college friends bought a goat to take care of their hillside. The only grass that goat ate came out of the lawnmower shoot. It was just a family pet that never earned it's keep.
Excellent narrative!!!! You always learn something new every day.
02:43hrs here in the states..... And I am learning why we have lawns
Thanks for education Sean. Truly enjoyed learning why we have lawns. Your hard work is appreciated.
I learned and enjoyed this video. Interestingly, I too enjoy a fresh cut lawn and the people that do the work and should be praised for hard labor. I learned to control grass in my back yard. Its nice to know what a difference it makes. Great video most people don't think about.
Wow, Sean! What a well done video. You must have worked for hours on this. This must have been a fun change for you. It sure was for me. I loved all the inserts you added which made it so entertaining. You are a gifted videographer/editor. I love history so I learned a few new things along the way. I also recognized many of the landmarks in the video which was super fun. A former professor of mine from another country wondered why people grow grass, only to cut it and do it all over again. It does seem somewhat weird when looking at it from that point of view. lol
Thank you Sean for that informative video, now I can say ‘ now I know ‘. I liked it. 👍🏼
G' Day Sean. I've been missing you lately. He is not only a professional yard keeper upper, He is a scholar too !! Who Knew. A very nice presentation. After a very long. cold, and snowy winter here in Montreal, the tradition goes that, on the first good spring day, after the great thaw, we go to one of our expansive parks, take off our shoes and socks, and walk barefoot through the newly green grass. Usually ornamental planting does not begin until well into the month of May.
Wow I really didn't know any of that. What a super informative video! Thanks Sean.
Hi Sean, excellent video. I thoroughly enjoyed watching and seeing the older lawn mowers. I even learned a thing or 2...lol. Stay Safe from a Tassie Fan ❤🙏👍🤗
Sitting at home crook waiting for this video!
Wow, I was not expecting that when I woke up this morning. I got to watch one of my favourite RUclips Channels, and I got to learn something new at the same time (who knew). Thank you Sean for creating something different and interesting for the channel.
Nicely done, & well-worth my time to watch & learn! I don't have a lawn, as a single Mom, it would have been too cumbersome to maintain, so I took it all out & put in a variety of plants (to which the birds have contributed a few that I let grow!), & now, with the supplement of rain barrels, I just water & weed!
You missed one important factor. The first known lawns were around the Taj Mahal, and when the members of the Knights Templar saw it, they were very impressed by it. Now the only way anyone could keep lawn in the tropics is if they were Regal, a Maharaj and the likes, which is how it worked in India. They had the servants, slaves and animals to keep the lawn beautiful. When the Knights Templar soldiers got back to Scotland and built their Castles, they too wanted lawn, as you said, to make the castles look even more impressive, so invited or had sheep and cows to keep it trim. Since then we have been wasting vast sums of water on a grass that gives us nothing in return.
I really liked this mini doco, well done.
Thank you for the history lesson. It was very informative. I absolutely love the smell of fresh cut grass and the combination of fresh cut grass and rain. Just loved having it rain just after cutting the lawn.
Love this info on History! Too many people trying to destroy or distort History in our world! Great to see you advance this history in lawn care.
God Bless!
USAF
Wow I never thought I would watch much less enjoy a history of lawns well done!
Excellent video - entertaining and educational!
FANTASTIC CONTENT, SEAN!!!!! Well researched, well narrated and well video mixed. Amazing treat for us, thanx so much!
The smell of fresh cut grass is bliss, pure and simple. Fun video! thx
Very informative! I never really thought about grass as having a history to. They say you learn something new every day and today I have! Thanks Sean😊
Hi, Sean! This well-done little piece sure brought back memories of my childhood in the fifties in the US state of Michigan. Lawns, lawns everywhere ... and good-sized lots. I think I was 8 or 9 when dear old Dad got really busy at work ... and sort of "told" his eldest daughter that she would be mowing the lawn from then on out! But I've never mowed with a mower with a blade that rotated in the horizontal plane. Dad preferred the kind that rotated in the vertical, a bit like the drums on modern-day brush hogs. Thankfully, self-propelled mowers had come along by then, or little Pat wouldn't have managed. And it greatly increased the size of my allowance! But I've often wondered why the horizontal rotary blade mower eventually seemed to take over the market.
Nowadays, however, lawns seem to be disappearing all around California what with severe water restrictions during times of drought.
I never thought I’d be interested in why I have a yard. 😂 This was really interesting. I guess I just never thought about it. Thanks Sean.
This was very interesting. Beautiful scenery and well told. Thanks Sean. God bless ❤️🙏🙏👍👍🌟🌟❤️
As always Sean ....Fabulous 🎉
You are a wealth of knowledge.
This was very educational as in most cases how things come into fruition nobody ever thinks about because.......its just..there.....
Thank you so very much 😊
Very cool video. I grew up in Levittown in the early 60's and 70's
Very informative. Things to think about while inhaling the scent of new mown lawns.
Very informative I love the smell of freshly mowed grass, but in the Valley of the Sun (Arizona) small patches of grass and wide expanses of gravel mulch is the norm because it's HOT and water is expensive.
Heh, listening to you narrate your documentary was a treat! Cheers!
What great information and something I did not know. I do like learning something new every day if I can! Thanks for taking the time to present this.
Wow, that was really interesting. I'm half kicking myself for not being totally aware of this but it makes sense. You're right. I beautiful, well manicured lawn does still seem to represent status. And freshly cut grass smells amazing. Thank you for this video. Different and fun!
In medieval times the original host of Blade Mate Lawn Care was Sean the sheep 😬🍻
Loved this video, and yes, I do love the smell of freshly mowed grass.👍
That was a departure from what I’m used to seeing from you, but I really liked it! Great presentation. Thanks for this one!
That's a pretty solid, well put together video and voice over work. Nice job mate. Keep on cuttin'.
Perfect! I really enjoyed this. You have a great voice for narration.
History classes never discussed this. Your videos now Educate as well as Entertain. Terrific your business model works for you, so that you can help folks who need it.
Always love to learn. Thanks for all the work. Love it and love a beautiful lawn.
Really well done 👍. Didn’t know where it all started. Thanks for the history lesson and keep up the great work!
I really enjoyed this video! Very educational 😊
Thanks for this vid, Sunday history lesson 😀👍📖
Great video! Yes certainly did learn! Thanks really enjoyed 😊
In the winter and spring, Israel and all of Arabia have wild grass that greens the fields for our wildlife and livestock. We do have to augment for the hot summers with farm-grown grasses. Other than the Ba'hai Gardens in Haifa on Mount Carmel, we do not have lawns. I have a stone courtyard with stone walls. We do have many parks around but still no lawns.This is great for me because I am violently allergic to all grasses and cut grass will give me an asthma attack.We do love potted plants and flowers. I have rosemary, sage, and mint for cooking. I want to try asparagus next year. Your history is very European in concept. Interesting that you mentioned the Levit family. They also made furniture after WW II. I met the great-grandson. Nice family.
Very nice history lesson Sean!
To the point and timely with cool facts. ❤
Nice history lesson Sean. Thanks for sharing!
This was excellent, Sean! I knew none of this, so to have you connect the dots was so interesting. 🌿
Excellent video!! Thank you for the history lesson! I enjoyed it very much!😊
Thank you Sean, that was a Fascinating peace of history 👍🏆♥️
Most of it was simply repeated LIES.
Wow that was really well done Sean! 🇨🇦❤️
Learning is powerful
Nice job Shawn!!! I loved it so much
Un estupendo estudio se nota que eres un gran profesional Sean saludos cordiales desde Madrid❤
Well that was a fun video and full of history and information and lovely images. Many thanks Sean. Here in Northern California we are all about removing lawns (but we still need gardeners to blow off all the tree debris in our yards and help with irrigation and pulling weeds. No poison for me, only vinegar with a tad of salt and soap to eliminate weeds. Why waste perfectly clean drinking water that is in limited supply in the Western US, to dump on lawns that use just too much for our climate? I removed all the grass around my house after I bought it decades ago and filled the front garden with 3 dozen day lilies, some African Daisies and 2 trees. Every plant has drip irrigation to it on an automatic system. Back garden is filled with trees including a Meyer Lemon and many potted flowering plants that are easy to water when needed. Temps over 30C or 100F mean more watering in early morning as the law requires but water goes right to the plant that needs it, not the overall yard which is covered in several inches of pea gravel to block weeds and drain during winter's rainy season. Large parts of the USA generally have regular rain and they are all happy keeping their traditional lawns where there are no shortages of drinking water. I grew up with lawns and mowing them with my brothers but would only have grass today if Mother Nature watered it, not with my well or city water. Memories of the aroma of a freshly cut field of grass on my mini farm and being the "OCD tidy person" that I am, makes me a fan of your channel. Retired and on a fixed income now with an old house that always needs something, I enjoy feeling like I can send you a few $ for some coffee to aid in your efforts. I have only been to your continent once, for a little work with a company in Adelaide and also visited the wine country. Had so much time changing planes in Sydney that I could take the train into the city to have a walk around the Harbor and a lunch from a food stand. My brother had R&R from Vietnam in the 60s and went to Australia for that, so 2 out of 3 kids in my family have been to your lovely country. Cheers!
Very interesting Sean! Brief educational videos encourage learning for both the old and young. Please keep them coming.😊
Fantastic video Sean. I was quite surprised to learn the Levitts built the first suburb with lawns, being as though my sister lives there, called Levittown. Hope all is well! Thanks.
The Levitts were quite racist. They only wanted to sell to Caucasians.
As an erstwhile architect, I would have said very much the same - and loving your video btw! The grass in large estates here in the UK is still often closely kept by sheep amongst mature standard trees, a sight to see. In my mind's eye though, I always associate lawns with a clearing in a dense, perhaps beech, wood, and underneath a magnificent tree would be the most jewel-like, deep green, soft sward of grass you would ever see!
I have to say that the other aspects of unmown grass - meadows, fields of wheat, savannas... are also places of great beauty, with all the associations with other creatures, and as it dances in the wind.
Very interesting! Thank you for that information! There’s nothing like a beautiful lawn surrounding your house
That was fun
I wasn’t really going to watch this but I’m glad I did. A surprise on another level Seano. 🤙
Enjoyed very much! Very interesting 👏👏👏👍👊😊🙏
Hi Sean, this was very Interesting History Lesson on Lawn Care!!🤩 Thanks for Sharing it to All of Us!! 😉
I do Love the Smell of Fresh Cut Grass, 🌱but we are in Summer Season Now, & In a Drought...Not Getting Any Rain!!
Needing To Use a Lawn Sprinkler to Keep Grass Green, & Only Cutting Grass Every Few Weeks, Instead of Once a Week!!
Have a Great Work Week,🥰🤠😎 & a Lovely Evening with Your Family!! ❤ Love Barb from Central Illinois USA❣
This was great! Thanks Sean!
Loved the lawn lesson!😊❤
Well you certainly peeked my interest. Tick tick ⏰ time seems to go slow when waiting.
I hate being "spelling police" but sometimes it's educational . Please take no offence because I am certainly imperfect myself . The word is piqued . Phonetically the same as peeked , so easily mistaken . All the best 🙂
I'll add , shared knowledge has taken humankind from the beginnings to now , seems appropriate to this video . We can all learn from each other .
@@Gordon_L thank you for that, totally slipped up using my grammar. 👍🏼
Wow! Excellent video, very informative but also very enjoyable! A nice easy watch!! Thank you! 😊
Very interesting! I knew a lot of it but there were a few tidbits of new info. I know when I was a teen, it was my job to mow the lawn with an old push reel mower. That was a serious workout! Now I have my new battery self propelled mower so I can still keep a nice lawn as I age and get more feeble. LOL
That was quite interesting. Thank you 😊.
Glad you gave us a history lesson! Very interesting to hear how the idea of a mowed, green lawn came about. And I hope that the climate changing can be accommodated in the future.
I much enjoyed your documentary....love your accent.😊 Bless you and the outstanding work you do.❤
Thank you Sean, love your nod to me potential future of lawn care as well. All the best,
That was very informative 👍 Thank you.
That was awesome 😎. I knew a little bit about how churches kept the land but the rest I didn't know. Very, very interesting:)
Well that was indeed an interesting tidbit of information, who knew? 💚
Our lawn is whatever comes up. Haven’t bought a bag of seeds in years. Looks good from the street but when ya get to walking around it’s another story. Cheaper though. Good video🇺🇸
Interesting. Thank you.
Yes , your a good storyteller and this was interesting to learn. Thank you.
Thanks for the history lesson ‼️ I really enjoyed it 🌲🪴🌱🌾🌸🪷🪻🪴🌼
Who spotted my typo in the video? Haha!
Still well done, informative and interesting. Great editing 😁
Convenants?
Never too old to learn something new. Thank you, Sean. Love From South Africa.
Right. Excellent. Instead of failing to tame my yard, I’m telling people my style is pre-medieval 😅
Perfect!
I enjoyed this, thank you Sean. It was enlightening. I can't imagine going to church and having to watch out for sheep and goat "business" in the grass. LOL
Thanks for that Sean!
Very informative indeed!