{"id":255,"date":"2011-03-20T01:47:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T01:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/?p=255"},"modified":"2011-03-20T18:12:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T18:12:47","slug":"azaleas-and-pond-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/2011\/03\/azaleas-and-pond-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Azaleas and pond maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending a few hours on the hydrant we made a visit to the local nursery. My wife bought some annuals for the planters in front of the house and I picked up four Azaleas for the pond area. Two white, two pink. These should get 3-4 feet tall and provide some screening from the neighbors, year round. Budget &#8211; $11 each.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pond_azaleas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pond_azaleas.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pond_azaleas\" width=\"500\" height=\"227\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pond_azaleas.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pond_azaleas-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also shut off the pump today so I could add some more black foam to control water between the rocks and hidden areas behind them. Also added a water based sealant to the mortar in the main part of the falls to help slow the deterioration of the mortar. Budget $14 foam, $5 sealant.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting early algae bloom so adding some more bacteria and barley extract. Hope that bog kicks in before too long. I may do a 1\/4 water change now that I can refill from the irrigation hydrant. That will allow me to reseal the skimmer too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending a few hours on the hydrant we made a visit to the local nursery. My wife bought some annuals for the planters in front of the house and I picked up four Azaleas for the pond area. Two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/2011\/03\/azaleas-and-pond-maintenance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-pond-budget","category-pond-building","category-pond-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}