{"id":11941,"date":"2011-08-15T07:36:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T11:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=11941"},"modified":"2011-08-12T12:36:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T16:36:29","slug":"garden-graveyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=11941","title":{"rendered":"Garden Graveyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/herbtombstone-143x150.jpg\" alt=\"Herb Tombstone\" title=\"Herb Tombstone\" width=\"143\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Here&#8217;s a head-smackingly brilliant idea: Plant markers shaped like tombstones.<\/p>\n<p>Instructables user PenfoldPlant had access to a laser cutter, so his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Herb-Graveyard\/\">instructions<\/a> focus on cutting the little headstones out of acrylic.  If you don&#8217;t have a laser cutter handy there are numerous other ways to do this, depending on your skillset and budget.  Possibilities include 3-D fabrication using a service like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/\">Shapeways<\/a>, sculpting in ceramic, carving from wood or stone, or using plain ol&#8217; polymer clay.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the pretty detail work and fine lines might be rather time-consuming to do by hand, but even much simpler designs would still be striking in the garden.  In particular I like the clever little mottoes, with the parsley&#8217;s Latin inscription including its taxonomic name and the cilantro being declared a friend to salsa.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via Cat Winterfox)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a head-smackingly brilliant idea: Plant markers shaped like tombstones. Instructables user PenfoldPlant had access to a laser cutter, so his instructions focus on cutting the little headstones out of acrylic. If you don&#8217;t have a laser cutter handy there are numerous other ways to do this, depending on your skillset and budget. Possibilities include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unhallowed-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11941"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11952,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions\/11952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}