{"id":2323,"date":"2008-01-23T21:07:46","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T03:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2016-11-13T22:43:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T22:43:26","slug":"welcome-cold-and-dreary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/weather\/welcome-cold-and-dreary\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Cold and Dreary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January can be Austin&#8217;s bleakest months and 2008 has been a good example of that. We&#8217;ve had gray skies and drizzle, temperatures hovering in the 40s. And last weekend downtown got our first solid freeze. Temperatures fell to the 25F\/-3.5C on Sunday morning effectively killing back all those summer plants which were still flowering on the last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2321\">GBBD<\/a>. At last!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d covered up the strawberries and brought the potted plants back inside. The winter hardy annuals (sweet peas, violas, pinks, and sweet alyssum) weren&#8217;t bothered. But a lot of plants, like the duranta and the podranea are finally gone and I&#8217;m not really sorry. Now I can clear them back with abandon.<\/p>\n<p>I feel a sense of relief when I look out at the brown, uninviting landscape and think, &#8220;Oh good. It&#8217;s too miserable to be out there today.&#8221; Actually, I welcome the opportunity to work on some indoor projects guilt-free. The garden is demanding and never satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>This week I&#8217;m going to turn my back on it, build a fire, and ponder this pile of seed catalogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/DurantaErecta3.jpg\" alt=\"freeze-damaged duranta\" width=\"400px\" \/><br \/><i>2008-01-22. After a hard freeze the duranta is a fountain of forlorn brown leaves and my neighbor&#8217;s lantana looks like dry brush.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[158,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323"}],"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=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4978,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}