{"id":1687,"date":"2017-08-26T12:24:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T12:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2017-08-26T12:24:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T12:24:49","slug":"more-help-in-the-garden-hooray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/uncategorized\/more-help-in-the-garden-hooray\/","title":{"rendered":"More help in the garden &#8211; hooray!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, our new gardener will be starting. \u00a0His name is Paul and he visited us a couple of days ago to discuss the possibility of his working with us. \u00a0He has agreed and I&#8217;m mightily relieved as we can&#8217;t keep up with it. \u00a0Perhaps if we worked all day everyday we could get it under control, but there are lots of other things that we want to do, so the help will be much appreciated.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1687 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/uncategorized\/more-help-in-the-garden-hooray\/attachment\/2017-08-26-13-03-26\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-08-26-13.03.26-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1694\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1694'>\n\t\t\t\tOur Enormous Clump of Bamboo\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/uncategorized\/more-help-in-the-garden-hooray\/attachment\/2017-08-26-13-03-56\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-08-26-13.03.56-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1689\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1689'>\n\t\t\t\tBamboo &#8211; escaping into the flower bed!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/uncategorized\/more-help-in-the-garden-hooray\/attachment\/2017-08-26-13-03-09\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-08-26-13.03.09-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1693\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1693'>\n\t\t\t\tPerennial sweet pea &#8211; flopping all over the lawn\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/uncategorized\/more-help-in-the-garden-hooray\/attachment\/2017-08-26-13-05-06\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-08-26-13.05.06-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1692\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1692'>\n\t\t\t\tPurple Toadflax &#8211; pretty, but in the wrong place\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/uncategorized\/more-help-in-the-garden-hooray\/attachment\/2017-08-26-13-04-55\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-08-26-13.04.55-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1691\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1691'>\n\t\t\t\tUnder this tangle of daisy and ground elder are spiderworts and other interesting things!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/uncategorized\/more-help-in-the-garden-hooray\/attachment\/2017-08-26-13-04-18\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-08-26-13.04.18-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1690\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1690'>\n\t\t\t\tThe view across the pink phlox to the end of the garden\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Paul suggested that we do it in small steps rather than trying to tackle everything at once. \u00a0He&#8217;s completely right and it&#8217;s the overwhelming whole that puts me off when I walk around our once-lovely garden. \u00a0So next week he&#8217;s going to start on the bed beside the back patio.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures above\u00a0are of that bed. \u00a0They are the &#8220;befores&#8221; and I&#8217;ll post some &#8220;afters&#8221; in a week or so. \u00a0The bed hassome interesting plants, but they&#8217;ve been overwhelmed by plants\u00a0that didn&#8217;t ought to be there. \u00a0I don&#8217;t call them weeds because they would be just fine in other parts of the garden, but they&#8217;ve seeded themselves about and they&#8217;re taking over and smothering the more ornamental things that we have in that bed.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, we&#8217;re working on our first set of instructions for Paul. \u00a0I&#8217;m writing him an email because, unfortunately, I work at Scrappies on the day he&#8217;ll be working here. \u00a0My letter will be my next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, our new gardener will be starting. \u00a0His name is Paul and he visited us a couple of days ago to discuss the possibility of his working with us. \u00a0He has agreed and I&#8217;m mightily relieved as we can&#8217;t keep up with it. \u00a0Perhaps if we worked all day everyday we could get it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}