![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/files\/2012\/05\/20120420-Patio-1.jpg\" "\\"Overview\\"")
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<\/a><\/p>\nThree weeks later on May 13th, pots have moved a bit and things are a lot more green!<\/p>\n
I should have posted overview pictures of my patio at an earlier date to show the space that I have to work with. My patio is roughly 8′ x 12′ in the inner courtyard of our ‘U’-shaped building on the main floor of the east arm of the ‘U’ (the top of the ‘U’ faces […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174152,174154],"tags":[479243,479226,19,174161,174155,453893,479231,174156,1231,479244,479222,141799,479223,479225],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring","category-vegetables","tag-beets","tag-butternut","tag-flowers","tag-lavender","tag-little-marvel","tag-oregano","tag-oregon-sugar-pod","tag-peas","tag-planning","tag-radishes","tag-rosemary","tag-swiss-chard","tag-thyme","tag-toy-choy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Moving from left to right on the patio (and in the photos): 1. Toy choy<\/a> is in the long grey-brown container on the ledge; 2. hanging in the top left is the trailing Oregon Sugar Pod<\/a> peas; 3. butterfly bush<\/a> is in the white ceramic pot on the ledge on the left; 4. columbine are the pink flowers; 5. crocosmia are the tall spiky leave in the dark brown ceramic pot; 6. Swiss chard<\/a> are in the smaller clay-coloured pot; 7. the larger clay coloured pot (with white rocks sitting on top of soil) is the future home of butternut squash; 8. the smaller clay-coloured pot sitting on a pedestal is the Little Marvel<\/a> bush peas; 9. lavender is in the white ceramic pot on the ledge on the right; 10. rosemary, thyme and oregano are in the dark brown ceramic pot; 11. above the herbs in the long container sitting on the ledge are beets and radishes<\/a>; 12. the grey-brown long container sitting next to it holds chives and mint; 13. the black pot at the very right of the ledge holds Skimmia<\/a>; 14. on the patio table are mescluns<\/a> and squash seedlings that will go to my dad’s garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"