{"id":46470,"date":"2017-08-13T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/?p=46470"},"modified":"2017-12-11T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T18:07:31","slug":"the-landscaping-around-your-house-is-your-moat-around-your-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/community\/the-landscaping-around-your-house-is-your-moat-around-your-castle.html","title":{"rendered":"The Landscaping Around Your House Is Your Moat Around Your Castle!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46471\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46471\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/home_1502635033.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46471\" src=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/home_1502635033.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/home_1502635033.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/home_1502635033-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/paulbr75\/\">paulbr75<\/a> \/ Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many folks don&#8217;t realize that the landscaping around the house serves for more than just beauty &#8211; it can be highly functional!<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes this functionality was designed into it by the architect \/ home builders originally. Many home buyers may be unaware of the functionality the home builder \/ designer put in place when designing the landscaping around a house.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, regardless of any functionality, the landscaping should remain high on your list of things to maintain in order to preserve the built in benefits for your home and your family&#8217;s quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve put together a few links to some great articles covering care for your modern day &#8220;moat&#8221; which can protect your modern day castle!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Help Your Garden Survive the Summer Heat!<\/strong><br \/>\nAugust, represents what may be the highest seasonal stress your garden must go through annually. High temperatures can easily stress every corner of your landscaping. Lawns, trees and every other plant needs some special care. For great advice on watering, trimming and what to do (or not do) to help your garden thrive in hot weather, we found this great article. <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y8lxpn3f\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y8lxpn3f<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep Your Plants Safe While You&#8217;re Gone!<\/strong><br \/>\nThe livin\u2019 is easy in Summertime, especially when you get to take a vacation! However, you don\u2019t want to lose all you have worked so hard for in your yard and garden while you\u2019re away. For tips to help be sure you come home to a beautiful garden, we\u2019ve found an article full of ideas to help keep your plants healthy. This way you can enjoy yourself, and rest easy! <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yc6g7994\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yc6g7994<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Landscape Can Help Protect Your Home!<\/strong><br \/>\nWildfires are ravaging the western part of the country this year. And while this trend is not new, it seems that fires in the summer months are becoming increasingly common.<\/p>\n<p>Some plants have natural fire retardant properties to them. So creating a landscape that combines those plantings, along with a good maintenance plan, can help protect your home. To help leverage your landscape choices so they&#8217;re more than beautiful &#8211; but can help provide some additional protection against fire &#8211; check out this article we found. <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ycpdtlqy\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ycpdtlqy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many folks don&#8217;t realize that the landscaping around the house serves for more than just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[6836,244,8187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46472,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46470\/revisions\/46472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/newswire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}