{"id":1188,"date":"2015-07-28T12:20:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2015-07-28T12:20:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:20:32","slug":"lavender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"Lavender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150717_154037006_HDR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1189\" src=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150717_154037006_HDR-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150717_154037006_HDR\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150717_154037006_HDR-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150717_154037006_HDR-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150717_154037006_HDR.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>We have been to two Lavender Festivals in recent days.\u00a0 We have successfully started several plants from seed and we wanted to see exactly how the big farms had theirs planted.\u00a0 Lavender likes\u00a0warm feet, so we need to dig up what we have and make some mounds for them.\u00a0 Then we can plant the new seedlings.\u00a0 I envision a big lavender garden.\u00a0 Deer don&#8217;t like them&#8230;.note to deer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Deer also don&#8217;t like Shasta daisies&#8230;.no one told our deer that.\u00a0 Deer don&#8217;t like Crocosmia &#8211; ditto the above.\u00a0 They love nasturtiums; but only the leaves.\u00a0 I find that really interesting.\u00a0 Do they somehow know that the seeds are in the flowers and if they eat the flowers, there won&#8217;t be more plants?\u00a0 Yeah, I was raised on Disney and I anthropomorphize all manner of critters.<\/p>\n<p>I need to rethink the plants around and on the deck.\u00a0 They are absolute mosquito havens and that isn&#8217;t okay.\u00a0 I need to track down some lemon grass, but I wonder if it really keeps the little beggars away?\u00a0 Somehow, I doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>The house remains very comfortable.\u00a0 It is cool on warm days and warm on cool days.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t get better than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been to two Lavender Festivals in recent days.\u00a0 We have successfully started several plants from seed and we wanted to see exactly how the big farms had theirs planted.\u00a0 Lavender likes\u00a0warm feet, so we need to dig up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=1188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}