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Judi Lynn

(163,781 posts)
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 05:00 AM Jan 2025

World's Ugliest Lawn 2024 competition won by Tasmanian woman helped by bandicoots and lack of a mower [View all]

Topic:Environmental Management
Thu 11 Jan 2024



Kathleen Murray's winning entry in the World's Ugliest Lawn competition. (Supplied: World's Ugliest Lawn)

In short:
A Tasmanian woman has won Sweden's World's Ugliest Lawn competition, which celebrates water conservation.Her dry, pockmarked lawn was helped along by bandicoots who turned it into "their own private Disneyland", she said.

What's next?

Kathleen Murray's prize is a pre-owned T-shirt with the text 'Proud owner of The World's Ugliest Lawn', kindly donated by last year's winner.

. . .

The international competition, which started on the island of Gotland in Sweden, is about "celebrating land owners who conserved water during drought by not watering their lawns".

The winner is chosen by an international jury panel made up of "a diverse group of experts".

. . .



The 2022 winner of the then-named Gotland's Ugliest Lawn competition, Marcus Norström. (Supplied: World's Ugliest Lawn)

More:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-12/tasmanian-woman-claims-worlds-ugliest-lawn-title/103312950



A Bandicoot. (endangered species.)

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