{"id":29957,"date":"2015-09-28T08:19:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T13:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/?p=29957"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:56:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:56:47","slug":"a-peek-at-my-garden-when-everyone-else-hates-theirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/off-topic\/a-peek-at-my-garden-when-everyone-else-hates-theirs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Peek at My Garden When Everyone Else Hates Theirs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My friends and relatives, most of us gardeners, hate the autumn mess in the yard this time of year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;m in heaven here in Wisconsin. I&#8217;ve never been able to grow dahlias. Just look at these beauties in the backyard. The red ones are almost <strong>6 feet high.<\/strong> The short yellow ones remind me of stars.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Flowers-Dahlias-red-and-yellow-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers--Dahlias red and yellow\" class=\"wp-image-29958\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My sisters planted three puny little Coleus in my shade garden when they visited in late June. Three months later, <strong>they look elegant<\/strong> in their waist-high planter that I bought at a yard sale for $5 and spray-painted white:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Flowers-Coleus-270x360.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers--Coleus\" class=\"wp-image-29959\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p> &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had almost given up hope on this one. My Morning Glories, started from two scrawny plants about 3 inches high, have <strong>taken over the porch railings<\/strong> and are finally blooming, more than a month behind schedule. When they&#8217;re in full bloom later this week, they&#8217;ll make a gorgeous backdrop for the pink Hibiscus. The blooms are so big and heavy that some of the stalks have broken:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Flowers-Morning-Glories-and-Hibiscus-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers--Morning Glories and Hibiscus\" class=\"wp-image-29960\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Who needs pumpkins when I can enjoy this for a few more weeks?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friends and relatives, most of us gardeners, hate the autumn mess in the yard this time of year. But I&#8217;m in heaven here in Wisconsin. I&#8217;ve never been able to grow dahlias. Just look at these beauties in the backyard. The red ones are almost 6 feet high. The short yellow ones remind me\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/off-topic\/a-peek-at-my-garden-when-everyone-else-hates-theirs\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":1,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[778,779],"class_list":{"0":"post-29957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-off-topic","7":"tag-flowers","8":"tag-garden","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42850,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29957\/revisions\/42850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}