{"id":697,"date":"2009-06-22T17:26:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T00:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=697"},"modified":"2009-06-22T17:26:29","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T00:26:29","slug":"sometimes-not-mowing-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes not mowing works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"images\/highangle_boggrassx1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/highangle_boggrassx500.jpg\" alt=\"bog grass\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s what you don&#8217;t do that counts.<\/p>\n<p>The west edge of my water garden has subsided.  That nice patch of lawn you see Jade standing on in my banner image has, for the past couple of years, been soggy right straight through the summer.  So this summer, I decided not to fight it so hard and let a couple of patches go unmowed.  Now I have a couple of nice drifts of not-too-shabby but unidentified grass growing there.  One friend commented about how it enhanced the water garden from a distance by partly obscuring its rectilinear outline.<\/p>\n<p>Shot a bunch of close-ups of the grass.  (Can anyone ID it?)  But I&#8217;m too lazy tonight to decide which I like best.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/bog_grass1x1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bog_grass1x500.jpg\" alt=\"bog grass\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/bog_grass2x1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bog_grass2x500.jpg\" alt=\"bog grass\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/bog_grass3x1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bog_grass3x500.jpg\" alt=\"bog grass\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/bog_grass4x1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bog_grass4x500.jpg\" alt=\"bog grass\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/bog_grass5x1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bog_grass5x500.jpg\" alt=\"bog grass\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/bog_grass6x1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bog_grass6x500.jpg\" alt=\"bog grass\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/bog_grass7x1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bog_grass7x500.jpg\" alt=\"bog grass\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s what you don&#8217;t do that counts. The west edge of my water garden has subsided. That nice patch of lawn you see Jade standing on in my banner image has, for the past couple of years, been soggy right straight through the summer. So this summer, I decided not to fight it so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=697\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sometimes not mowing works&#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":[41,10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bummers","category-perennials","category-water-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","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=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}