{"id":3661,"date":"2011-08-20T23:32:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T03:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2011-08-21T14:12:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T18:12:06","slug":"dead-shrubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/dead-shrubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Shrubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/aroundthehouse\/shrubs_2011\/IMG_6243.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/98134-2\/IMG_6243.jpg\" height=640 width=427 border=0 title=\"Dead shrub across from my condo, on the other side of the sidewalk.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Near my condo along the driveway there <strike>are<\/strike> were two rather large, pleasant looking shrubs (old photo <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/aroundthehouse\/various_bits\/IMG_7266.jpg.html\">here<\/a>), but over the last two years they&#8217;ve become increasingly sickly, and this year they simply failed to grow. The one furthest from my house is shown above, and the one next to my bedroom can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/aroundthehouse\/shrubs_2011\/IMG_6242.jpg.html\">here<\/a>. This evening I found myself sufficiently tired of seeing the dead sticks coming out of the ground and decided to replace them.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pulaski_(tool)\">Pulaski<\/a> that I keep around for trail work I put on steel toe boots and headed out to remove the stumps. All of this wasn&#8217;t needed, as with a gentle wiggle and a slight tug I was able to remove the bulk of each one; no tools needed. A little bit of work with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adze\">adze<\/a> end of the tool helped remove the decayed roots, and after a bit of raking it&#8217;s as if they disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow Danielle and I will look for some replacement shrubs, likely something that grows 6&#8242; &#8211; 8&#8242; high and around 4&#8242; &#8211; 6&#8242; wide so that it&#8217;ll nicely fill that space. A plant which flowers would be nice, but something like a burning bush might do nicely as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near my condo along the driveway there are were two rather large, pleasant looking shrubs (old photo here), but over the last two years they&#8217;ve&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/dead-shrubs\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dead Shrubs<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}