{"id":2143,"date":"2018-04-19T12:38:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T11:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2018-04-19T12:38:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T11:38:53","slug":"garden-and-footballers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/garden-and-footballers\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden and footballers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/kids_playing_football.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2144\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/kids_playing_football.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you are sharing your garden with some young footballers then from the point of view of growing plants all can seem a bit lost with the broken stems and bruised flowers on your existing plants. However all it not lost as often selecting the right ornamental grasses can add some colour and interest to your garden without attracting to much damage from the footballers. Here is a few suggestions for suitable grasses<\/p>\n<div>festuca glauca elijah blue<\/div>\n<div>Pennisetum setaceum Fireworks<\/div>\n<div>Pennistum Villosum<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are sharing your garden with some young footballers then from the point of view of growing plants all can seem a bit lost with the broken stems and bruised flowers on your&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Garden and footballers &#8211; GardenAdvice.co.uk<\/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:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/garden-and-footballers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Garden and footballers &#8211; 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