Is gardening outdated

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I live on an estate, on my road I am generally surrounded by couples/ single mums in their 30s and 40s. I am single mum try to maintain my garden both front and rear, paining fences, mowing the lawn and general weeding, so very cheap and easy. However when looking around I feel like the only one to be doing do with lots of weeds on driveways and un mown front gardens. I know it’s not a priority in modern busy life.
For convex some one said to me years ago it is impossible to have a tidy home, tidy child and tidy mum. And I do let myself slip in order to keep my home and child looking put together.
No judgment just curious if where I live is the norm.
YABU too busy to pull up weeds
YANBU pride in your garden

Me too

yes noticed it on my estate too, People just don't seem to take pride in how their homes and gardens look anymore. As for life becoming busier I dont believe thats the excuse these days as we now have so many time saving devices. our grandmother's did everything by hand and from scratch but still had time to donkey stone the step and keep the windows and gardens presentable.
I think smart phones, Netflix etc now take up so much of people's time. let's face it if most of us were honest we'd all get so much more done if we didn't spend so much time on our screens, myself included at times.

Thank you I think it’s a climbing rose called Gertrude jeckyl or something like that!

Gardening is therapy for me, an easy way to feel happy. I would say gardening costs less than the cost of weekly bottle of wine. I grow a lot from seed and pick up plants in the half dead half price section.

Time wise the biggest demand on my time in the summer is watering my pots. Otherwise it’s as and when I have a spare half an hour.

@Girliefriendlikespuppies I’m confident it isn’t Gertrude Jekyll because I have a few of those. They are single colour pink roses with double blooms - basically more petals than you can throw a stick at. Lovely for fragrance, but so densely packed with petals they are hopeless for insects.

Yours is a single rose shape with variegated pink splashes. It’s lovely but I don’t recognise it.