{"id":2010,"date":"2017-05-05T00:02:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T07:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-17\/"},"modified":"2017-05-05T00:02:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T07:02:24","slug":"garden-tip-17","status":"publish","type":"tool","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Tip #17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ready to trade in that thirsty boring lawn for a wildflower meadow? Do a bit of research first with British gardener Christopher Lloyd&#8217;s  book called <em>Meadows<\/em> (Timber Press, $29.95). Lloyd dispels the myth of a maintenance-free meadow without dampening the reader&#8217;s enthusiasm for creating a flowery, drought-tolerant lawn alternative.<br \/>\nAdditional wildflower information is available online: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usna.usda.gov\/Gardens\/faqs\/nativefaq2.html\"> an article on what is considered a native plant;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildflower.org\/howto\/show.php?id=5&#038;frontpage=true\">  a how-to article from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnps.org\/landscaping\/ellingboe_purchasing.html\">  pointers for buying native plants in Washington.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ready to trade in that thirsty boring lawn for a wildflower meadow? Do a bit of research first with British gardener Christopher Lloyd&#8217;s book called Meadows (Timber Press, $29.95). Lloyd dispels the myth of a maintenance-free meadow without dampening the reader&#8217;s enthusiasm for creating a flowery, drought-tolerant lawn alternative. Additional wildflower information is available online: an article on what is considered a native plant; a how-to article from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center; pointers for buying native plants in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-17\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garden Tip #17<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[274,273,51],"class_list":["post-2010","tool","type-tool","status-publish","hentry","keyword-meadow-gardening","keyword-wildflowers","keyword-xeriscaping"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool\/2010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tool"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}