{"id":818,"date":"2007-09-25T03:06:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T07:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/09\/25\/tidying-up-the-garden-on-a-nice-fall-day\/"},"modified":"2010-10-08T21:41:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T01:41:12","slug":"tidying-up-the-garden-on-a-nice-fall-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/09\/25\/tidying-up-the-garden-on-a-nice-fall-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidying up the garden on a nice fall day"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>Do you ever just go in your garden and start chopping away at the plants?<\/p>\n<p>Of course you do, most of you are gardeners.  Naturally by chopping away I simply mean you see a dead branch on a rose bush or shrub, some dead leaves here and there on other plants, flowers that need to be dead headed and so on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Sunday was on of those days for me.<\/p>\n<p>I went into the garden in the early evening and it was 10 pm by the time I came back inside! It&#8217;s a good thing we have one of those big security lights at the back of the house to light up the yard!<\/p>\n<p>Several of our roses were overgrown and needed pruning.  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