{"id":23294,"date":"2022-04-11T18:57:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T22:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=23294"},"modified":"2022-04-11T18:57:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T22:57:41","slug":"if-you-were-a-deer-would-you-be-scared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=23294","title":{"rendered":"If you were a deer, would you be scared?"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1268\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-1.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-1-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-1-768x609.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-1-1536x1217.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It irks me that I have to uglify my day lily bank to try to keep the deer from eating the day lilies. This year, they started eating them very early, without waiting for the flower stalks and blooms. With luck and good rain, this bank will be a green jungle of day lilies by early June.<\/p>\n<p>The lilac bush has struggled, but each year it looks a little better. It probably needs a good feeding and a little pruning. Speaking of pruning, I pruned the apple trees fairly aggressively this winter, but the pruning has really improved the shape of the trees, not to mention my ability to mow under the trees without getting scraped off the mower. The fig trees, which are doing well, have just started putting out their leaves, but there&#8217;s already a baby fig. I have never seen a baby fig this early.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1336\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-2.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-2-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-2-768x641.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-2-1536x1283.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1287\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-3.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-3-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-3-768x618.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-3-1536x1236.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1403\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-4.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-4-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-4-768x673.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blooms-4-1536x1347.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It irks me that I have to uglify my day lily bank to try to keep the deer from eating the day lilies. This year, they started eating them very early, without waiting for the flower stalks and blooms. With luck and good rain, this bank will be a green jungle of day lilies by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=23294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If you were a deer, would you be scared?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23294"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23302,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23294\/revisions\/23302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}