{"id":176,"date":"2009-03-10T11:11:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T16:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2010-02-24T18:08:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T23:08:04","slug":"trellis-project-is-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/2009\/03\/10\/trellis-project-is-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Trellis Project is Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trellis construction is now complete and it looks really good. We found some copper covered post caps which tie in with the copper roofs of the bird houses that are mounted on the taller posts on either side of the stairs that lead to the lower garden. In keeping with the copper accents, I found some string lights with copper shades which I may purchase to string under the trellis, but I haven&#8217;t made up my mind on that purchase yet.<\/p>\n<p>I am anxious to get to the nursery to buy plants for our newly created beds, but that will have to wait a few days as we have wet and cold weather approaching. We also have a water feature to design and construct for the grotto area which will be a project in itself.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/trellisbirdhouses.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Birdhouses Mounted on Trellis Posts<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/trellisfull.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Full Trellis View<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/trellissouth.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View of Trellis From the South<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/trellisside.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Side View of the Trellis<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nI spent most of the day Sunday transplanting peppers, greens, and herbs that were started in the greenhouse into the lower garden beds. Moving the peppers outside in March may have been a bit premature, but I&#8217;m hoping that I can protect them with row cover fabric for the few remaining cold nights that we will have. The spinach, chard, collards, and herbs should love the cool rainy weather that we are supposed to get for the rest of this week. The beds don&#8217;t look too great yet, but in a week or two they should be full of greens and herbs.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/spinachandchard.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spinach, Chard, Collards in Lower Garden<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/peppersspr09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peppers and Herbs<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/herbbed.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kitchen Herb Bed &#8211; Parsley, Cilantro, Oregano, Thyme, and Dill<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nI couldn&#8217;t resist taking some pictures of this Western Tiger Swallowtail feeding on Texas mountain laurel blooms in the courtyard. The dark green foliage and purple blooms really set off the color of this butterfly. Too bad he has some pieces of his wing missing.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/swallowtailonmtlaurel1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Western Tiger Swallowtail on Mountain Laurel Bloom<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nDo a rain dance for us. We desperately need some rain before summer arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trellis construction is now complete and it looks really good. We found some copper covered post caps which tie in with the copper roofs of the bird houses that are mounted on the taller posts on either side of the stairs that lead to the lower garden. In keeping with the copper accents, I found some string lights with copper shades which I may purchase to string under the trellis, but I haven&#8217;t made up my mind on that purchase yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,13,7,18,24],"tags":[233,349,196,234,67,229,85],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-hardscaping","category-landscaping","category-organic-gardening","category-vegetable-gardening","tag-birdhouse","tag-butterfly","tag-courtyard","tag-herb-garden","tag-organic-vegetable-gardening","tag-trellis","tag-western-tiger-swallowtail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phuiL-2Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}