{"id":16352,"date":"2016-07-31T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T12:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=16352"},"modified":"2016-07-31T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T12:45:08","slug":"hardy-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=16352","title":{"rendered":"Hardy plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While buying the plants for behind our back fence I couldn&#8217;t resist these, sort of, thistles. I can&#8217;t remember now what they are but they were on sale for three pounds and it said that they are really hardy and drought resistant.<\/p>\n<p>I thought they would add a bit of height and colour to the driest parts of the garden.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16394\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=16394\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16394\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16394\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/thistle.jpg\" alt=\"A lovely mauve colour\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/thistle.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/thistle-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/thistle-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lovely pastel mauve colour<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16395\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=16395\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16395\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16395\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/just_adds_a_bit_of_height-and_colour.jpg\" alt=\"They add a bit of height and colour\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/just_adds_a_bit_of_height-and_colour.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/just_adds_a_bit_of_height-and_colour-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/just_adds_a_bit_of_height-and_colour-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">They add a bit of height and colour<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I added four of them to the garden but the first is just slightly behind where I stood to take the photo. We have lost a few plants that got too dry so maybe these will be able to withstand our lack of watering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While buying the plants for behind our back fence I couldn&#8217;t resist these, sort of, thistles. I can&#8217;t remember now what they are but they were on sale for three pounds and it said that they are really hardy and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=16352\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16352"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16401,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16352\/revisions\/16401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}