An Australian lawn took home the top prize in the first World’s Ugliest Lawn competition.
After receiving unsightly turf entries from around the world, Kathleen Murray’s in Sandford, Tasmania, was voted the worst by an international panel of judges.
“Kathleen Murray’s lawn has deep, dry cracks created by three wild horses (small marsupials endemic to Australia) and not a single decimeter of dust-covered waste is wasted on watering,” explains the competition’s website.
“For that, this planet, and its dwindling reserves of life-giving fluid, thank you, Kathleen. So are mischievous and mischievous bandicoots marking your property for the greater good.”
Kathleen Murray of Sandford, Tasmania, for worst looking grass. Gotland
The contest was created by the Gotland Region in Sweden, a municipality that covers the entire Swedish island of Gotland, in a light-hearted effort to promote water conservation.
“It uses humor to highlight such a serious subject,” the site explains.
“And it gives credit to those who are willing to declare with pride that they are weeds that deserve the scorn of their neighbors – and the applause of the rest of the world.”
The six jurors on the panel ranged from garden designers in Ireland to architects in New Zealand to authors and advertising copywriters in the US
The group saw entries from the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, France and Croatia.
Submissions from around the world were voted on by a panel of judges. Gotland
“It was a bit of shock and awe,” Murray told The Guardian.
“Baby bandicoots love to dig – that’s how they find their favorite food. Now my backyard looks like a real life Hungry Hungry Hippo game. I also have an echidna that helps, and some chooks.”
Murray and his four teenage children live in an area without mains water, so the rainwater his property collects through a cistern is too precious to use in the yard.
If their family runs out of water in the summer, they can wait up to two weeks before getting water delivered to their home.
His prize for winning the contest was a used t-shirt that said “Proud owner of The World’s Ugliest Lawn.”
He was happy that he no longer had to worry about mowing his lawn.
“I used to think bandicoots were massive, destructive wildlife that invaded my yard, but now I see that they’ve actually freed me from having to mow anymore,” Murray told the outlet.
“I feel guilt free on the weekends, especially since my ex-husband left with the lawnmower in 2016.”
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
