{"id":4531,"date":"2009-09-14T08:30:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T08:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2009\/09\/14\/question-fountain-grass-man-down\/"},"modified":"2009-09-14T08:30:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T08:30:53","slug":"question-fountain-grass-man-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2009\/09\/14\/question-fountain-grass-man-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Question: Fountain Grass \/ Man Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year is our first real landscaping adventure. We&#039;ve grown things, but not to the degree we&#039;re currently tending&#8230; so, naturally questions abound.<\/p>\n<p>This one&#039;s about grasses. Our purple fountain grass &#8212; creating a border along the fence &#8212; took a hard beating in the rain last night. It&#039;s been falling over to some degree, but now, I think it might be down for the count.<\/p>\n<p>What to do? Trim it back to the base to let it grow next season? Fortunately, most of the other grasses remained standing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e20120a5c36e1b970c-popup\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC00210\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e20120a5c36e1b970c \" src=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e20120a5c36e1b970c-100wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 100px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e20120a5c36ef9970c-popup\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC00211\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e20120a5c36ef9970c \" src=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e20120a5c36ef9970c-100wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 100px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year is our first real landscaping adventure. We&#039;ve grown things, but not to the degree we&#039;re currently tending&#8230; so, naturally questions abound. This one&#039;s about grasses. Our purple fountain grass &#8212; creating a border along the fence &#8212; took a hard beating in the rain last night. It&#039;s been falling over to some degree, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renovation-transformation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Question: Fountain Grass \/ Man Down - Red Neck Modern<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2009\/09\/14\/question-fountain-grass-man-down\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Question: Fountain Grass \/ Man Down - Red Neck Modern\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This year is our first real landscaping adventure. 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