{"id":22591,"date":"2026-06-29T21:28:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=22591"},"modified":"2026-06-30T21:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:36:04","slug":"daily_4135_-_slug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/06\/29\/daily_4135_-_slug\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4135 – slug"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

There’s this one part of the garden where nothing I plant seems to thrive. I tried hostas and day lilies – they were puny in size and gradually withered away, one after the other. I put down some daffodils to at least get some spring colour – they’ve never flowered. I tried a decorative yarrow – it didn’t even come back after the first winter. I tried Astilbe – they’re not dead but they’re also no bigger than they were five years ago. Now most recently I tried Astrantia – and within a week, slugs had eaten the majority of the leaves, to the point where the plants were barely identifiable. There’s just no winning here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s this one part of the garden where nothing I plant seems to thrive. I tried hostas and day lilies – they were puny in size and gradually withered away, one after the other. I put down some daffodils to at least get some spring colour – they’ve never flowered. I tried a decorative yarrow […]<\/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-22591","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\/22591","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=22591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22595,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22591\/revisions\/22595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}