{"id":12643,"date":"2013-02-27T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=12643"},"modified":"2013-02-22T14:37:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T21:37:43","slug":"keeping-the-house-dry-in-spite-of-your-landscaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/keeping-the-house-dry-in-spite-of-your-landscaping\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the House Dry In Spite of Your Landscaping"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12647\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12647\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/no-water-zone-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12647\" title=\"tulips which will be relocated out of the no water zone near the house\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/no-water-zone--300x227.jpg\" alt=\"tulips which will be relocated out of the no water zone near the house\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/no-water-zone--300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/no-water-zone--1024x775.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">tulips which will be relocated out of the no water zone near the house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>I have developed a growing frustration with sprinklers near the house.<\/strong> The basement living space has been slightly flooded a few times. There are perpetually hard water spots on the windows.<em> All of this despite the fact that every summer we work on aligning and fixing the sprinklers.<\/em> Since I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">don&#8217;t<\/span> want to resort to xeriscaping, I have been trying to come up with other ways to deal with this water trouble. Finally, I figured out that I need to <span style=\"color: #008000;\">think differently about the greenery near the house.<\/span> I wrote about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mydbsupply.com\/blog\/reasons-to-move-your-botanical-landscaping-away-from-the-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">moving plants and sprinkler systems away from the house<\/a> <\/span>in my guest post for D&amp;B Supply. It may take a couple of years, but it will be worth it. Hopefully, it will be the beginning of a whole new trend that solves the same problem for many people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have developed a growing frustration with sprinklers near the house. The basement living space has been slightly flooded a few times. There are perpetually hard water spots on the windows. All of this despite the fact that every summer we work on aligning and fixing the sprinklers. Since I don&#8217;t want to resort to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}