{"id":1069,"date":"2008-12-29T18:51:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T23:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2008-12-29T18:51:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T23:51:16","slug":"winter-greener-than-id-imagined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1069","title":{"rendered":"Winter: Greener than I&#039;d imagined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-1.JPG' title='c-wintergreen-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-1.JPG' alt='c-wintergreen-1.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nI was away from North Carolina for 17 years, so I&#8217;d forgotten that the local flora is by no means completely dead during the winter. We&#8217;ve had a series of warm, wet days, but we&#8217;ve also had many nights with lows in the low 20s, with the lowest temperature I&#8217;ve recorded so far 16.3F. Not only has a lot of my new grass stayed green during the winter, it&#8217;s actually grown a little.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-2.JPG' title='c-wintergreen-2.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-2.JPG' alt='c-wintergreen-2.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nPeppermint can&#8217;t be beaten down.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-3.JPG' title='c-wintergreen-3.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-3.JPG' alt='c-wintergreen-3.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nClover slows way down in the winter, but it winters over, green.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-4.JPG' title='c-wintergreen-4.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-4.JPG' alt='c-wintergreen-4.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nExuberant grasses<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-5.JPG' title='c-wintergreen-5.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-5.JPG' alt='c-wintergreen-5.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know what this is, but I have a lot of it, and it thrives during the winter.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-6.JPG' title='c-wintergreen-6.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-6.JPG' alt='c-wintergreen-6.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn this spot, two bales of straw that defended a raw ditch this spring are now melting into the grassy soil.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-7.JPG' title='c-wintergreen-7.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-7.JPG' alt='c-wintergreen-7.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nPast one of the arbor vitae trees (planted in March), something wicked this way comes.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-8.JPG' title='c-wintergreen-8.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-8.JPG' alt='c-wintergreen-8.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe straw covers the area where the final grading around the house was done in late October. This newest grass planting has made slow progress all winter.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-9.JPG' title='c-wintergreen-9.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/c-wintergreen-9.JPG' alt='c-wintergreen-9.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn the ashes of burnt construction scraps, grass thrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was away from North Carolina for 17 years, so I&#8217;d forgotten that the local flora is by no means completely dead during the winter. We&#8217;ve had a series of warm, wet days, but we&#8217;ve also had many nights with lows in the low 20s, with the lowest temperature I&#8217;ve recorded so far 16.3F. 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