{"id":370,"date":"2005-06-26T07:25:51","date_gmt":"2005-06-26T12:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=370"},"modified":"2005-06-26T07:25:51","modified_gmt":"2005-06-26T12:25:51","slug":"emme-the-gardener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Emme, the Gardener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emme and I took off yesterday after she and Bob finished their second performance of &#8220;The Great Kapok Tree&#8221; at the Falmouth Arts Alive! festival (photos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50283295@N00\/sets\/502620\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<br \/>\nWe stopped at Coonamesset Farm for lunch, then went back to my house for a short visit, during which time we edited the photos and did a spin around the gardens.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nEmme enjoyed the flowers, but she noticed something was wrong with a clump of larkspur, which are among my favorites &#8211; &#8220;They look dead!&#8221;<br \/>\nShe was right, and I hadn&#8217;t noticed, but the plants, top-heavy with buds, were drooping.  Since they&#8217;re in a spot that the soaker hose can&#8217;t reach, I figured they needed watering and gave them a separate dousing.<br \/>\nThis morning, they look a whole lot healthier.  Thanks, Emme, for your sharp-eyed observation!<br \/>\nMeanwhile, I&#8217;ve been trying to do a better job of keeping this year&#8217;s pansies from getting leggy and out of control.  Last summer, I was WAY too late in pinching them back, so I started earlier this time, figuring to do this in stages, rather than having to remove all the flowers at once.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s interesting that cleaning up through pruning and dead-heading actually makes plants look fuller and more colorful.  Less does seem to be more.<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ve finally figured out that the Miracle Gro feeder really DOES work, and it saves a tremendous amount of time and effort.<br \/>\nWhich helps, because even in small gardens, there is always so much to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emme and I took off yesterday after she and Bob finished their second performance of &#8220;The Great Kapok Tree&#8221; at the Falmouth Arts Alive! festival (photos here) We stopped at Coonamesset Farm for lunch, then went back to my house &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=370\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}