Grass – man’s greatest nemesis since time immemorial, or at least since we started getting all fuddy-duddy about how nature was presenting itself way back in the 17th century because there was literally nothing on TV.
Since those not so humble beginnings (because landscape gardening tended to be the toy of the silk trousered), the means to achieving an immaculate lawn has seen an evolution that went from the scythe to hand mowers to horse-drawn mowers to steam mowers to petrol mowers to now, here in the far more civilised 21st century, where electric lawn mowers are king, ruling the grass razing roost like a particularly conceited cockalorum.
