{"id":3680,"date":"2011-10-21T07:41:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T12:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3680"},"modified":"2011-10-21T07:41:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T12:41:52","slug":"new-plantings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3680","title":{"rendered":"New plantings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/S-red-maple-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/S-red-maple-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"S-red-maple-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3681\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The red maple<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very lucky to have a garden shop a few miles away owned by the county&#8217;s former agricultural extension agent. I bought some bargain trees from him that were planted yesterday. The trees (though I didn&#8217;t know it when I picked them out) were all trade-show trees from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monrovia.com\/\">Monrovia nurseries<\/a> that Michael had bought after a trade show two or three years ago. The trees have been in their pots all that time, waiting for the day when the garden shop would open. The trade-show look had worn off, but the trees were beautiful specimens in good condition, pot bound, and eager to be planted. I got them at a bargain price.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Michael and his helper planted a number of new things at the abbey: a red maple as a shade tree, a weeping willow, a conical ligustrum, two kiwis, two figs, and two raspberries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The red maple I&#8217;m very lucky to have a garden shop a few miles away owned by the county&#8217;s former agricultural extension agent. I bought some bargain trees from him that were planted yesterday. The trees (though I didn&#8217;t know it when I picked them out) were all trade-show trees from Monrovia nurseries that Michael &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3680\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New plantings&#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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680","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=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}