{"id":530,"date":"2008-11-30T16:29:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T23:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=530"},"modified":"2008-11-30T17:27:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T00:27:26","slug":"note-to-self-gardening-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"Note to self (gardening resolutions) &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip to Nan at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardeninggonewild.com\/?p=2484\">Gardening Gone Wild<\/a> for passing along the link to <a href=\"http:\/\/lejardinplume.com\">Le Jardin Plume<\/a>, in particular <a href=\"http:\/\/lejardinplume.com\/galerie%20plume\/web\/galerieplume.html\">this gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have no delusions that I&#8217;ll ever have the design sense or level of control they have.  But it&#8217;s one of the first great gardens I&#8217;ve looked at and said to myself, I can grow most of those (or reasonably close facsimiles) on a large scale.<\/p>\n<p>So my 2009 gardening resolutions (a little early) &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Focus plant purchases on new and interesting ornamental grasses.<\/li>\n<li>Start dividing and spreading around the grasses that I already have that I like.<\/li>\n<li>Plant the Sanguisorba tenufolia seed I collected this year instead of leaving it in an envelope for three years like I do with most seed I save.<\/li>\n<li>See if I can start getting the Verbena hastata (it&#8217;s a freakin&#8217; weed around here) to grow kind of where I want it to.<\/li>\n<li>Start figuring out how I can slam all these into one big planting along with some eupatoriums, various vebascums and some other biennials in one big mass.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have to PhotoShop some images together to see what it might look like.  Can&#8217;t wait to get started.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/verbena_hastatax1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/verbena_hastatax500.jpg\" alt=\"verbena hastata\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Verbena hastata<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip to Nan at Gardening Gone Wild for passing along the link to Le Jardin Plume, in particular this gallery. I have no delusions that I&#8217;ll ever have the design sense or level of control they have. But it&#8217;s one of the first great gardens I&#8217;ve looked at and said to myself, I can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=530\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Note to self (gardening resolutions) &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-other-gardens","category-perennials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}