{"id":21987,"date":"2017-07-29T10:21:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T10:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=21987"},"modified":"2017-07-29T10:21:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T10:21:37","slug":"a-work-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=21987","title":{"rendered":"A work in progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since we have had the new fence it has left us with a gap at the edge of the concrete that edged the old fence. This means that as well as not looking very neat, grass and weeds come through from the other side.<\/p>\n<p>We decided to plant it with things that grow easily in small spaces.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22004\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22004\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22004\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22004\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/garden_path.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/garden_path.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/garden_path-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/garden_path-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garden path<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These plants have only been in for a few months and are just getting established. We hope that by next year they will have spread to cover the concrete channel and spill over onto the path. We want the path to appear to be floating between the plants on either side.<\/p>\n<p>It will look much nicer to have a strip of green rather than a strip of concrete. I intend to do a follow up post next summer showing the before and after photos. Like a lot of things in the garden it takes a bit of patience and is a work in progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we have had the new fence it has left us with a gap at the edge of the concrete that edged the old fence. This means that as well as not looking very neat, grass and weeds come through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=21987\">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\/21987"}],"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=21987"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22007,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21987\/revisions\/22007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}