{"id":2805,"date":"2009-04-28T07:21:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T14:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2009-04-26T07:29:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T14:29:28","slug":"garden-water-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/garden-water-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Water Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3309\/3475655757_b451bae8bf.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A pond makes a great addition to any garden creating new interest and providing a foil for the plants and flower.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3653\/3475643995_aab28e2222.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"water\" \/><br \/>\nTulips next to fountain<\/p>\n<p>A pond also helps create a greater sense of life and vibrancy attracting more insects, frogs and birds to the garden.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Water is one of the most calming elements which is why it is often used in Zen Gardens aiming at providing greater tranquillity<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3352\/3475670363_0fb9a24e45.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"water\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Water also provides great interest for young kids. Just make sure they are supervised due to the risk of drowning<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/flowers\/no-need-of-charlie-dimmock-for-a-water-feature\/\">Tips for creating water features such as ponds<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/environmental-gardening\/weedy-ponds\/\">Dealing with weeds in ponds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pond makes a great addition to any garden creating new interest and providing a foil for the plants and flower. Tulips next to fountain A pond also helps create a greater sense of life and vibrancy attracting more insects, frogs and birds to the garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}