{"id":2265,"date":"2007-06-20T20:18:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T01:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2017-07-19T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T19:48:59","slug":"i-love-my-lawn-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-essays\/i-love-my-lawn-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love My Lawn in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t see very often at Zanthan Gardens&#8230;a green lawn. Yep, June is my best month for lawns and the reason why, in my mind, June is the merry month of green. May showers bring June lawns.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/lawn20060611.jpg\" alt=\"St Augustine grass\" \/><br \/><i>2006-06-11. Even in the midst of the 2006 drought, some late May rains greened up the back lawn temporarily.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This year we&#8217;ve had May showers and June showers and April showers. In fact, it&#8217;s been raining in Austin since <a href=\"http:\/\/2007.sxsw.com\/\">SXSW<\/a> in mid-March. Today we had another inch to 4 inches, depending on where you were in Central Texas. (I think Zanthan Gardens got about an inch.) <strong>I&#8217;m not complaining! I&#8217;m celebrating.<\/strong> According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kxan.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=144650\">Jim Spencer<\/a>, just half way through 2007 we&#8217;ve already received our normal annual rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>Is your xeriscape rotting yet? The tallest of my yuccas keep falling over.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve replaced quite a bit of my lawn with flower beds. But as you can see from the photo, this area is a bit shady for flowers or cactus or ornamental grasses or roses or herbs. The St. Augustine is more or less happy. And even after one of its unhappy years it always makes a comeback. I have not yet watered my lawn this year. In fact, I rarely water my lawns any year. Nor do I put any chemical fertilizers on it. This lawn is entirely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starbucks.com\/aboutus\/compost.asp\">caffeine driven<\/a>. I mow it with a push mower so I feel absolutely zero lawn guilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/lawn20070618.jpg\" alt=\"St Augustine grass\" \/><br \/><i>2007-06-18. June is the one month the lawn usually looks nice.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5472,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/5472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}