{"id":22078,"date":"2026-03-13T22:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=22078"},"modified":"2026-03-14T22:55:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:55:58","slug":"daily_4027_-_time_to_make_spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/daily_4027_-_time_to_make_spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4027 &#8211; time to make spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The temperatures seem to be staying solidly above freezing even at night. Time for spring flowers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4027_flowers_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ranunculus in a hanging basket in the front porch, so we can see it whenever we come and go. And a fluffy heather in the large pot at the bottom of the stairs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what those steel-wire baskets are supposed to be lined with. I&#8217;m guessing the producers had something more aesthetically pleasing in mind than cut-up paper bags. But&#8230; the bag kind of doesn&#8217;t look too bad.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4027_flowers_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I put pansies around both of those &#8220;centerpieces&#8221; just to fill out the pots. Not the ideal plant for this neighbourhood &#8211; the deer will come and nibble at the flowers, I&#8217;m sure &#8211; but the plant nursery didn&#8217;t have anything else to choose from, this early in the season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4027_flowers_4.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh. That went faster than expected. Eight hours later, the deer have already been at them. Not just nibbled at the flowers but yanked out the entire plants. Couldn&#8217;t they just bite off the bits they want and leave the rest? And what did the poor heather bush do, why did it deserve to be thrown to the side?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4027_flowers_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tulips at least are well protected from the deer, up at the top of the porch. I was worried about them during the coldest days of February, but the green shoots all survived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The temperatures seem to be staying solidly above freezing even at night. Time for spring flowers. Ranunculus in a hanging basket in the front porch, so we can see it whenever we come and go. And a fluffy heather in the large pot at the bottom of the stairs. I&#8217;m not sure what those steel-wire [&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-22078","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\/22078","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=22078"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22083,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22078\/revisions\/22083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}