{"id":2254,"date":"2009-11-06T15:54:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T22:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/06\/garden-cleanup\/"},"modified":"2009-11-05T19:58:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T02:58:16","slug":"garden-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/06\/garden-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/whack.php\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I planted an umbrella tree in one corner of the yard a few years ago to provide a barrier between our yard and the neighbors. It does the job quite nicely, but, as you can see in the &#8220;before&#8221; panel above, it&#8217; got a little out of control. Exacerbating the control problem, a group of several California palms popped up behind the umbrella, next to the wall in back. Many people consider this variety of palm a weed &#8211; in this case, it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>For the &#8220;before&#8221; picture, Verna posed me next to the garden project just as I began to whack away with the branch cutter and chain saw. Two green bins worth of tree parts later, she snapped the &#8220;after&#8221; picture. It was more work than it appears. The palms were a bitch to clean up, all intertwined and always with the little razor sharp spikes catching on stuff (luckily, I escaped any of them snagging a chunk outta <strong>me<\/strong>). Eventually, I will remove the palms completely, before they start moving the block walls.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that little squirrel that kept popping up in people&#8217;s pictures on the web? Somehow, that little guy managed to get in the &#8220;after&#8221; picture. Maybe he was hiding there before &#8211; you just couldn&#8217;t see him through the thicket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I planted an umbrella tree in one corner of the yard a few years ago to provide a barrier between our yard and the neighbors. It&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-pretty-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}