{"id":629,"date":"2014-08-07T15:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/?p=629"},"modified":"2014-08-07T15:22:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:22:51","slug":"topiary-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Topiary Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in an &#8216;open plan&#8217; road and was forever getting the corner of my front lawn damaged by vehicles using my driveway to turn round.  Towards the end of last year, I moved a small potted bush from the back garden to the front in an effort to deter the reversers. Although it worked, a combination of the high winds and the neighbourhood cats (including my own) quickly destroyed the bush.<\/p>\n<p>I ordered a &#8220;40cm topiary ball&#8221; from an online store to replace the bush and it looked good. Unfortunately, the same wind and cats very soon saw that one off as well. It&#8217;s currently in intensive care in the back garden but it doesn&#8217;t look promising.<\/p>\n<p>So, I decided to get an artificial one on the theory that anything is better than nothing. It arrived today and I soon had it anchored down into a pot. I think it looks quite good (ok, from a distance!) but, more importantly, it should withstand wind and cats and still act as a reversing deterrent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/topiary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/topiary-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"topiary\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/topiary-300x255.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/topiary-1024x871.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/topiary.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in an &#8216;open plan&#8217; road and was forever getting the corner of my front lawn damaged by vehicles using my driveway to turn round. Towards the end of last year, I moved a small potted bush from the back garden to the front in an effort to deter the reversers. Although it worked, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}