{"id":1241,"date":"2013-04-26T17:03:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T00:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2013-04-26T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T00:20:00","slug":"the-good-neighbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/26\/the-good-neighbour\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Neighbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/26\/the-good-neighbour\/dempseyflowers\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1242\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dempseyflowers.jpg\" alt=\"dempseyflowers\" width=\"1240\" height=\"1808\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dempseyflowers.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dempseyflowers-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dempseyflowers-702x1024.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1240px) 100vw, 1240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is my father in his garden at Frog Point, Humbug Bay, Manitoba. It is north of Hecla, nearly at Pine Dock.The government launched a plan at one point to see if people could grow gardens in these northern communities along the lake. They should just have gone to my father&#8217;s fish camp and taken a look. he didn&#8217;t need any grant.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, after being in Manitoba for three and a half months, when I returned to Victoria, I found an azalea and a rhododendron dead. It had been a dry summer. They were beautiful plants, valued parts of the garden that fronts my house. I have no lawn. Just a garden of mixed shrubs and flowers. Also, when I left for Manitoba, my fig tree was covered in new figs. When I came back, the figs had dried up and fallen off the tree. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it is vanity but Victoria, given its climate, is a city of garden proud people. Plants of all kinds flourish here. When I first moved to Victoria in the early seventies, I was amazed to discover trees and flowers that we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my father in his garden at Frog Point, Humbug Bay, Manitoba. It is north of Hecla, nearly at Pine Dock.The government launched a plan at one point to see if people could grow gardens in these northern communities along the lake. They should just have gone to my father&#8217;s fish camp and taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1302,1297,1294,816,1296,817,1298,1301,1300,1299,1295],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-city-of-gardens","tag-frog-point","tag-gardening","tag-gimli-2","tag-humbug-bay","tag-manitoba-2","tag-matheson-island","tag-neighbourhoods","tag-neighbourly","tag-neighbours","tag-victoria-b-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}