{"id":10420,"date":"2014-09-08T09:20:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10420"},"modified":"2014-09-04T01:25:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T08:25:18","slug":"look-above-your-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/look-above-your-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Look above your Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Light is a key ingredient in a garden. The quality varies according to the sky and sun so keep a weather-eye out.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"sky skipton 018 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5881376560\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5302\/5881376560_da92714fd0.jpg\" alt=\"sky skipton 018\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look above the trees in your garden and what do you see? This morning I saw a great sky with wisps of vapour trails and fine cloud. It cheered me up no end!<\/p>\n<p>Normally I am looking down on the ground for work that needs doing, weeds to hoe, bugs to remove, damage clearance to be sorted. At best I am considering what crops to harvest, what flower is displaying a look that I had hoped for or how long can I put off the labouring jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Today I got stuck in to pruning a Holly bush at 8.00am and filled two recycling bags of rubbish before the local authority came to convert it into compost.<br \/>\nI could have worried that the tops of the trees needed loping but I wasn&#8217;t going to spoil a morning sky with gloomy thoughts.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Clouds by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5678903437\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5145\/5678903437_b97aeb6484.jpg\" alt=\"Clouds\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even if darker clouds begin to gather, look on the bright side, your plants probably need the rain.<br \/>\nMy dark side was taking the motor mower to be repaired as it quit as the last lawn was cut the day before &#8211; lets hope it is back before the grass needs another trim!<br \/>\nIf you have been feeding the birds it may be dangerous to look up above your garden but don&#8217;t let that put you off!<br \/>\nClouds are a bit like snow in that the patterns you see will never be the same again.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"bits 059 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/2982082784\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3026\/2982082784_d0cc4341e2.jpg\" alt=\"bits 059\" width=\"500\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day &#8216;God&#8217;s in his heaven and all is right with this Gardeners world&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the sky above your garden and seek inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}