{"id":707,"date":"2011-06-25T11:40:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T18:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2011-06-25T11:40:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T18:40:31","slug":"natures-bounty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/25\/natures-bounty\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature&#8217;s Bounty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re about 80% of the way done with the <a href=\"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/03\/this-stinks\/\">extreme pruning project<\/a> for the oleanders that ring our backyard.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/befuddledsenses\/5760467243\/\" title=\"Oleanders (Still Fighting) by Accretion Disc, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2176\/5760467243_5fdfb452b0_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Oleanders (Still Fighting)\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We never did find a store that sells Ladybugs&#8217;n&#8217;Stuff, but we did find one that sells <a href=\"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/18\/gardening-fun\/\">Aphid-Be-Dead<\/a> in great quantities.<\/p>\n<p>That only leaves one thing: the bees under the shed. They don&#8217;t want us messing with any of the oleander bushes on the east side of the property line. The good news is that a properly-treated bee sting hurts less than a scratch inflicted by an oleander bush. The bad news is that I have one sting and Mrs. Jones has two, so we&#8217;re knocking off&#8230;for the time bee-ing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re about 80% of the way done with the extreme pruning project for the oleanders that ring our backyard. We never did find a store that sells Ladybugs&#8217;n&#8217;Stuff, but we did find one that sells Aphid-Be-Dead in great quantities. That only leaves one thing: the bees under the shed. They don&#8217;t want us messing with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[339,297,294,296,340,295],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-bees","tag-gardening","tag-homeowner","tag-leaf-scorch","tag-nature-2","tag-oleanders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-bp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}