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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2016-07-02 04:34 pm

Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club, Eastbourne



Where they play the women's tournament the week before Wimbledon

[identity profile] artkouros.livejournal.com 2016-07-02 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
So, I have to ask - are there just no weeds in England? The pictures I see are always so nice and manicured, as though 2 millennia of gardening has gotten rid of everything unpleasant.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2016-07-02 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
What you're looking at here are grass courts that are maintained at a pitch of perfection. Not everything looks like this. Our lawns here at the farm are full of weeds.

Personally I'm very fond of weeds.

[identity profile] artkouros.livejournal.com 2016-07-03 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I rather like weeds, too. But down here nothing ever dies and unkempt land quickly starts turning into semi-tropical forest. We went toward the coast this morning for an estate sale and it just gets very claustrophobic for me. I think my Plymouth DNA likes less fertility and more order.