{"id":20642,"date":"2020-02-17T19:23:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T19:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20642"},"modified":"2020-02-17T19:23:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T19:23:23","slug":"you-dont-need-a-weatherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/you-dont-need-a-weatherman\/","title":{"rendered":"You Don&#8217;t Need a Weatherman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-20643\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-0018-654x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-0018-654x1024.jpg 654w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-0018-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-0018-768x1202.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-0018-982x1536.jpg 982w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-0018-1309x2048.jpg 1309w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-0018-scaled.jpg 1636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bob Dylan knew &#8216;<span class=\"st\"><em>You don&#8217;t need a weatherman<\/em>. To <em>know<\/em> which way the wind blows&#8230;&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-20644\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-004-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-004-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-004-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-004-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-004-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-004-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Westering home with a song in the air&#8217; I blame the west wind for this lopsided conifer. The bad pruning and poor early staking added contributed to the trees woes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-20645\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-009-695x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-009-695x1024.jpg 695w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-009-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-009-768x1131.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-009-1043x1536.jpg 1043w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-009-1391x2048.jpg 1391w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wat-the-wind-blows-009-scaled.jpg 1739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Doris Day in the windy city wondered &#8216;Will the new hedge provide enough shelter from the wind before it reaches the deadwood stage?&#8217;.\u00c2\u00a0 Noway! it is too late for this slanted ornamental tree in an open plan garden. Well &#8216;que sera sera&#8217; as Doris would say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Dylan knew &#8216;You don&#8217;t need a weatherman. To know which way the wind blows&#8230;&#8230;&#8221; &#8216;Westering home with a song in the air&#8217; I blame the west wind for this lopsided conifer. The bad pruning and poor early staking added contributed to the trees woes. Doris Day in the windy city wondered &#8216;Will the new hedge provide enough shelter from the wind before it reaches the deadwood stage?&#8217;.\u00c2\u00a0 Noway! it is too late for this slanted ornamental tree in an&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/you-dont-need-a-weatherman\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642","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=20642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20648,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642\/revisions\/20648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}