{"id":1368,"date":"2016-01-23T15:43:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T07:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2016-08-19T21:14:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T13:14:36","slug":"8-lessons-on-stretching-a-small-yard-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/2016\/01\/23\/8-lessons-on-stretching-a-small-yard-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaim Side Yards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Lesson 5: Reclaim Side Yards<\/h4>\n<div class=\"pg-module-content\">\n<div class=\"p first\">The space on either side of your house is often seen merely as a utilitarian passage from front yard to backyard. It&#8217;s hardly used and rarely occupied except as a dog run or a staging place for trash cans and bags of potting soil. To Eagleton, it&#8217;s an opportunity\u2014for a private, meditative landscape that helps you relax as you move from the noisy world to a peaceful garden. &#8220;People like to put paths down the middle of their yards, but there&#8217;s a comfort to a protected path beside the house, planted with things you can stop and look at but also presenting a long, dramatic glimpse of what&#8217;s ahead.&#8221; One further tip: If your lot backs onto an alley, as many in Denver&#8217;s older districts do, make your part of it pretty. Since this could be your usual garden entry once you&#8217;ve parked in the garage, train a vine up the outer walls, add an ornamental gate, and tuck a fountain\u2014a note of welcome\u2014just inside.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson 5: Reclaim Side Yards The space on either side of your house is often seen merely as a utilitarian passage from front yard to backyard. It&#8217;s hardly used and rarely occupied except as a dog run or a staging place for trash cans and bags of potting soil. To Eagleton, it&#8217;s an opportunity\u2014for a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/2016\/01\/23\/8-lessons-on-stretching-a-small-yard-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reclaim Side Yards&#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-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","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=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}