{"id":1355,"date":"2016-01-23T15:40:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T07:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2016-08-19T21:02:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T13:02:51","slug":"8-lessons-on-stretching-a-small-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/2016\/01\/23\/8-lessons-on-stretching-a-small-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscaping Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Landscaping Lessons<\/h4>\n<div class=\"pg-module-content\">\n<div class=\"p first\">Mike Eagleton is often asked to conjure miracles from small, cheek-to-jowl city lots. The Denver landscape designer&#8217;s own yard, around a 1929 brick cottage south of downtown, is a prime example of his professional sleight of hand. Within its 50 by 120 feet, he has incorporated sunny, street-side perennial beds, a private entry court in the rear, an elevated outdoor dining room, a secluded lounging terrace, a carpet of lawn, woodland views, a potting shed, and several destination strolls that lead to musical, spilling fountains. Front and back entrances, the latter marked by a wisteria arbor off the alley behind his property, make a garden walk of coming home. Almost year-round, despite his Zone 6 climate, with its frigid winters and baking summers, he&#8217;s got something in bloom\u2014in pots and borders and on top of arbors. Shade trees blot out neighbors&#8217; homes, and it&#8217;s easy to forget, when he and his wife and their teenage kids kick back outside, that they&#8217;re in a metropolis of 600,000 people.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landscaping Lessons Mike Eagleton is often asked to conjure miracles from small, cheek-to-jowl city lots. The Denver landscape designer&#8217;s own yard, around a 1929 brick cottage south of downtown, is a prime example of his professional sleight of hand. Within its 50 by 120 feet, he has incorporated sunny, street-side perennial beds, a private entry &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/2016\/01\/23\/8-lessons-on-stretching-a-small-yard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Landscaping Lessons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}