Ethnographic interviews and,later, a complete population survey where conduced in United States ,the Minnesota River Valley National Wildlife Refuge.
Suburban residents said that people who had an attractive yard were neat ,cared about the appearance of the neighborhood or about the environment, and took pride in their home or their neighborhood.
People who had unattractive yards were believed to not care , to have negative personal traits(to be"different," to have no taste, etc.), or to lack resources to care for their yard.