{"id":555,"date":"2009-05-23T15:03:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T23:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=555"},"modified":"2009-05-23T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T23:03:29","slug":"twenty-bags-of-bark-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Bags of Bark Later…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty bags of bark fit into a Subaru Outback.\u00a0 This is a little known fact.\u00a0 Not sure anybody will care but there you go.<\/p>\n

We got home, had some lunch, and went to work.\u00a0 First I spread out some landscaping ground cloth around the plants to the right of the front door.\u00a0 No all the area got covered with ground cloth but I used all we had and it made tromping around in the dirt a lot cleaner.<\/p>\n

\"The

The plant that looked the happiest with mulch is the rhododendron.<\/p><\/div>\n

The ferns are small and I cut a small hole in the landscape ground cloth and pulled them through.\u00a0 They will appreciate having cool roots and moist ground.\u00a0 They are in the darkest corner and they will most likely fill up the whole corner and then die down over the winter.\u00a0 They are right in the path of snow sliding off the roof.<\/p>\n

\"Small

Small ferns are hiding in the corner.<\/p><\/div>\n

The flower bed to the right of the front door is only about half covered with the bark; the other half is still in its original wild state.<\/p>\n

\"The

The new flowering plants will grow a lot over the summer, hopefully.<\/p><\/div>\n

It was a beautiful day for working outside, temperatures hovering around 75F (+23C), totally clear skies.\u00a0 We set up some chairs in the shade after we were done working and watched the hummingbird riot.<\/p>\n

\"Yet

Yet another house picture. <\/p><\/div>\n

Now it is time for a shower and then some relaxing, watching a movie and knitting.\u00a0 The hummingbirds have gone through 4 cups of sugar water so far today.\u00a0 I imagine we will have to refill all three feeders once more before we retire for the evening.\u00a0 Ah….\u00a0 Sumertime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty bags of bark fit into a Subaru Outback.\u00a0 This is a little known fact.\u00a0 Not sure anybody will care but there you go. We got home, had some lunch, and went to work.\u00a0 First I spread out some landscaping ground cloth around the plants to the right of the front door.\u00a0 No all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}