Tame Plants

This in reference to a previously asked question about whether or not certain hypothetical trees are wild, which I will not actually answer.

Though the wildness of those trees is something I have still not come up with a theory to solve, I do have a tentative description of tame plants, which do indeed exist.  Any plant growing in an environment in which it will not survive on its own, and which is kept alive by intentional outside actors, is a tame plant.  This may not be an exclusive definition of tame plants, but it is a subset of plants which are tame.  A colleague of mine brought up houseplants, which are certainly a good example.  My description originated with my own thoughts about lawn care.  We feed the grass, we bring it water, and we groom it.  It's essentially an inanimate pet, a fair analog for the "enslaved" class of pets like fish and insects, rather than communicative pets like cats and dogs.

Interestingly, lawn care is also strong evidence of human culture as one single hive, by way of the ridiculous lengths we go to in order to live in a superficially homogenized environment throughout what I would call the "macroculture" or the "superculture".  If we really lived in many hundreds of national or regional cultures, we would acknowledge that a grass lawns are a waste of time to support in much of the world.  The only one lawn care is good for, besides a few privileged species of grass, is the economy -- expected, as all encouraged behavior in a hive is to the benefit of the queen.