I feel like this is so.

It definitely SHOULD be true

It just makes sense, right?

This was prompted by me having to ask LuceButNotLiterally whether she meant flowers or lawn when she said they'd been gardening

Wait, does gardening in the UK mean any kind of lawn care? I knew that yard = garden but I had never considered that

'Yarding' is a word, but it's fallen out of use in the US.

It sounds like carding your grass 😂

And it tends to refer more to livestock stuff.

YARDENING yes absolutely

crossthesky: OK but yardening sounds funnier than yarding

wingedvoices: that was my question actually! I genuinely didn't know.

It does indeed. And there has been a small movement to make it a word, but garden and landscape people hate it.

Whenever UK friends refer to their gardens I instinctively imagine luxurious flower-filled backyards even though my brain knows that's not the case

i definitely would call any kind of garden care gardening/"doing the garden"
or call it the specific task "cutting the grass"

I asked my metamour (who moved here from London) and they said “we’re not crazy about lawns like the US is, like, it would fall under gardening but it’s just mowing the lawn and we’d say mowing the lawn. And besides that phrase only posh people call it a lawn”

Ahahahaha

Lolll double vote there for “it’s just cutting the grass / mowing the lawn “

Yeah at least where I've lived in America, we'd refer to lawncare stuff as their specific tasks, like we'd just say we're gonna go mow. I'm only even using the term lawncare for clarity in this convo.

Whereas if my mom says she's been gardening, it means flower stuff.

Oh sorry I even said that wrong, L actually said mow the grass (as OPPOSED to the posher lawn usage)

Yeah, same here

wingedvoices: The specificity is so interesting to me! My dad would probably say mow the lawn if he used the full description but more likely he'd just be like I'm gonna go mow.

Language is neat!

I think it's so interesting how countries and regions can be so specific in such small ways about wording for the same stuff and none of it is wrong, just different vernacular

effervescible: well and I’m sure that part is regional a little bit, I don’t know how much but they’re from IN London, so sometimes things that ping as posh to them do get said more widely other places

Seriously! I love that too

I'd just say 'cutting the grass' but i wouldnt consider that gardening specifically

Lawn's more an expanse of very closely tended to grass

We cut the grass or mow the grass or mow the lawn, it depends