{"id":18838,"date":"2024-06-29T20:14:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T19:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=18838"},"modified":"2024-06-29T20:14:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T19:14:03","slug":"home-garden-pond-progress-introducing-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=18838","title":{"rendered":"HOME &amp; GARDEN: Pond Progress\u2026 Introducing Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_5012-1-1024x576.png\" class=\"wp-image-18836\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_5012-1-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_5012-1-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_5012-1-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_5012-1.png 1334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I finally broke up the pond-plant I got off Patricia, via nextdoor.com. I\u2019m not sure if they\u2019ll survive, in a tap-water pond? I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2019ve potted them up in ordinary, but quite deep, plant pots, weighed down with gravel. They\u2019re not sitting in the pond as desired, however. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_5013-1-1024x576.png\" class=\"wp-image-18837\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_5013-1-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_5013-1-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_5013-1-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_5013-1.png 1334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bit of a glitch on this pano\u2019!*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So I might have to somehow tweak their positioning. I\u2019m thinking nylon cord, pulling them more to the edges, anchored somehow, to the banks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also need to find \u2018shallow ledge\u2019 plants for the two stepped areas. And I\u2019d love a little lily pad or two. So much remains to be done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* I\u2019ll have to take another better shot, when I next get out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally broke up the pond-plant I got off Patricia, via nextdoor.com. I\u2019m not sure if they\u2019ll survive, in a tap-water pond? I \u2019ve potted them up in ordinary, but quite deep, plant pots, weighed down with gravel. They\u2019re not sitting in the pond as desired, however. So I might have to somehow tweak their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=18838\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HOME &amp; GARDEN: Pond Progress\u2026 Introducing Plants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-4TQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18838"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}