{"id":10835,"date":"2011-07-10T16:08:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T22:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10835"},"modified":"2011-07-10T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T22:08:18","slug":"changes-comin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10835","title":{"rendered":"Changes Comin’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mid-Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Honey Flow Moon<\/p>\n

Mark and I transplanted hemerocallis (daylily) from the tiered gardens in the back to a front bed defined by a bur oak now in its 17th year and a Norway pine equally old.\u00a0 What we’re \"06-28-10_earlylilies\"doing is gradually filling in spots on our grounds that seem to always require weeding, maintenance with plants that are hardy, go it alone types.\u00a0 The hemerocallis, like the hosta, receive scorn from landscape designers and permaculture folks, but like all God’s creatures, they too have a place.\u00a0 And their place is to grow in those places you don’t want to have to worry or fuss about.\u00a0 As we get older, we plan to retire more and more beds to this kind of planting, reducing the ongoing work until we have only some vegetables in a raised bed or two and the orchard.\u00a0 The rest will be in asiatic lilies, hemerocallis, hosta, bugbane, grasses, ferns, bulbs like tulips and daffodils, monkshod and various shrubs.<\/p>\n

We don’t want to nor do we need to get there all of a sudden.\u00a0 We still love the bees, the vegetable garden, the orchard and the perennials, but realistically there will come a time when weeding, planting and transplanting will no longer be fun, but will turn into chores.\u00a0 At that point we want to have grounds that correspond to our willingness and ability to care for them.<\/p>\n

Kate’s retirement has brought up a lot of these questions.\u00a0 We love her retirement and the success she’s shown in recovering from her recent, second, hip replacement.\u00a0 That means a lot of things that were too painful in the past, like long car rides and train trips, may become more possible.\u00a0\u00a0 So, we’re not shuttling back into the shell until the end, just trying to be realistic about life’s changes that are ahead and inevitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mid-Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Honey Flow Moon Mark and I transplanted hemerocallis (daylily) from the tiered gardens in the back to a front bed defined by a bur oak now in its 17th year and a Norway pine equally old.\u00a0 What we’re doing is gradually filling in spots on our grounds that seem to always require weeding, … Continue reading Changes Comin’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,65,87,473],"tags":[3495,682,3494,111,3496],"class_list":["post-10835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-family","category-garden","category-retirement","tag-bur-oak","tag-hemerocallis","tag-hosta","tag-kate","tag-norway-pine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10837,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions\/10837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}