{"id":210,"date":"2009-03-27T13:10:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T18:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2010-02-24T18:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T23:00:44","slug":"trellis-bed-tree-and-vine-planting-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/2009\/03\/27\/trellis-bed-tree-and-vine-planting-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"Trellis Bed Tree and Vine Planting Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We finished installing the trees and vines in the beds at the base of the new trellis yesterday, and now I am praying that we don&#8217;t have a hard freeze tonight or tomorrow night. That would be unfortunate. We don&#8217;t usually get hard freezes here after March 15, so it would be kind of unusual, but the weather has become reliably unpredictable the past few years. I&#8217;m thinking about wrapping the vines and small trees in row cover just in case.<\/p>\n<p>The crown jewel of the courtyard area was purchased yesterday for my birthday. It is a coral bark Japanese maple (Acer palmatum &#8216;Sangokaku&#8217;). I am so excited about this acquisition that I can hardly contain myself. Forgive me for indulging in including so many views of this tree, but I couldn&#8217;t resist. It is so beautiful. The bark on the new limbs has a rosy blush to it that will turn crimson in the winter, and the new leaves are lime green with red margins that will turn gold in the fall, giving this tree true four season interest.<\/p>\n<p>The tree is being incorporated into the grotto area by surrounding it with stones that will blend into the stone pool and waterfall that we will be building in the corner of the grotto, nestled under the maple.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/japmaple1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coral Bark Japanese Maple Viewed From West<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/japmaple2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coral Bark Japanese Maple Viewed From the Courtyard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/japmaple3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coral Bark Japanese Maple Viewed From South<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nThe addition of the maple and the rocks to the grotto area has really enhanced the grotto seating area.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/grottoseating.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View of the Grotto Area<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nThe planting bed at the east end of the trellis had a severe level change from the west to east end of the bed that I decided to address using native rocks to create level tiers. I thought the native rocks would tie the east trellis bed in with the grotto and stone work at the west end of the trellis.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/trelliseastbed.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rock Work in East Trellis Bed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nAll of the newly installed trees and vines are putting out lots of new growth and show no signs of transplant shock at all. Forty mph winds and near freezing temperatures tonight may have a negative impact though.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/stairwellplants2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Crossvines Frame the Stairwell to the Lower Gardens<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finished installing the trees and vines in the beds at the base of the new trellis yesterday, and now I am praying that we don&#8217;t have a hard freeze tonight or tomorrow night. That would be unfortunate. We don&#8217;t usually get hard freezes here after March 15, so it would be kind of unusual, but the weather has become reliably unpredictable the past few years. I&#8217;m thinking about wrapping the vines and small trees in row cover just in case.<\/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":[3,7,16],"tags":[241,238,242,347,229],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-landscaping","category-native-plants","tag-coral-bark-japanese-maple","tag-crossvine","tag-japanese-maple","tag-landscaping","tag-trellis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phuiL-3o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","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=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}