ABSTRACT
Apart from the environmental hazards they entail, there are few landscape features in our time as ideologically innocent as lawns. The presence of lawns in every suburban garden has rendered them invisible. Lawns are nowadays kept to keep up norms of conformity. This practice has not always been the case. Lawns were once explicit status markers signifying the societal position of the owner. The change from status marker to conformity marker is relatively recent and it came with the mechanical lawn mower.
