{"id":13301,"date":"2020-08-06T11:48:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T10:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13301"},"modified":"2020-08-07T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T11:00:15","slug":"daily_2031_-_playing_with_buckets_and_boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/08\/06\/daily_2031_-_playing_with_buckets_and_boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2031 &#8211; playing with buckets and boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2031_buckets.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;m playing with buckets and IKEA boxes again, to plan and design the new flowerbed. I first did this for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/05\/17\/daily_1953_-_designing_the_shrubbery\/\">bushes and shrubs behind the house<\/a> and this approach worked better than anything I&#8217;ve tried before. It gives a much better idea of the size of things.<\/p>\n<p>I only have a limited number and variety of such design aids, though, so one bucket will have to stand in for a whole group of plants in some places, and the same kind of flower pot saucers means different things in different places.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why phase two of the process is to take a photo of the design and annotate it with specific plant names. That made the groupings more obvious and I went back several times to move some boxes around and take a new photo.<\/p>\n<p>Phase three was shopping, but buying fewer plants than I thought I needed based on the design, and then placing the flowerpots in their intended spots. And indeed as usual I had overestimated the number of plants that I had room for. A bucket looks large but three day lilies still take up more space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m playing with buckets and IKEA boxes again, to plan and design the new flowerbed. I first did this for the bushes and shrubs behind the house and this approach worked better than anything I&#8217;ve tried before. It gives a much better idea of the size of things. I only have a limited number and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-house_and_garden","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13305,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301\/revisions\/13305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}