{"id":1067,"date":"2011-04-26T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/secret-garden\/"},"modified":"2011-04-26T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T03:45:00","slug":"secret-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/secret-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a reprieve during the monsoon season today and I was able to get out and take a walk this afternoon. I decided to go see my &#8220;secret garden&#8221; which I discovered last year on my walks. It&#8217;s just someone&#8217;s very nicely planned backyard with lotsa flowers, but to me it was a pleasant surprise on a walk one day last year. I decided it was my secret garden and it&#8217;s something I like to treat myself with from time to time when walking.<\/p>\n<p> I know, I should work on making my own backyard into a secret garden. But that sounds like work. Still, I am going to have someone come in and at least make my front yard purtier. (Heh heh, she said &#8220;purtier&#8221;!) I called Chaney&#8217;s nursery today and told them to &#8220;put me on the list&#8221; to do the landscaping job that Curt designed. <\/p>\n<p> The only real thing I asked him to change was remove a buckthorn from the plan since it&#8217;s an invasive plant in Ohio. He swapped it out with a weigela that is grafted onto a tree. A mutant plant in my front yard! Booga booga boo! Here&#8217;s his vision of what my front will be:<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/trinalin\/pic\/000tc10e\" alt=\"Landscape plan for the house\" title=\"Landscape plan for the house\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a reprieve during the monsoon season today and I was able to get out and take a walk this afternoon. I decided to go see my &#8220;secret garden&#8221; which I discovered last year on my walks. It&#8217;s just someone&#8217;s very nicely planned backyard with lotsa flowers, but to me it was a pleasant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,32],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livejournal","tag-flowers","tag-home-improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}