{"id":115,"date":"2016-03-19T21:18:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T21:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2016-05-11T01:10:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T01:10:06","slug":"moving-the-palms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/19\/moving-the-palms\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving the palms &#8211; prep, day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a total of 8 large Canary palm trees on our lot.\u00a0 We love them, but they are in pretty random locations, so we are going to move most of them into more aesthetically pleasing positions.<\/p>\n<p>In preparation to move them, they first tie up a bunch of the fronds to keep them out of the way (and apparently it helps the tree survive better), then trim the remaining fronds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-116\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4309-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4309\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4309-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4309-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4309-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then, they dug a trench around the bottom of the palms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-117\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4288-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4288\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4288-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4288-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4288-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They start digging the trench around the palms by hand to provide a starter channel for the backhoe so it doesn&#8217;t wander when they are digging.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll dig the holes down to 4-6 feet deep with the backhoe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a total of 8 large Canary palm trees on our lot.\u00a0 We love them, but they are in pretty random locations, so we are going to move most of them into more aesthetically pleasing positions. In preparation to move them, they first tie up a bunch of the fronds to keep them out<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/19\/moving-the-palms\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more about Moving the palms &#8211; prep, day 1<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landscaping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}