{"id":2286,"date":"2007-09-02T18:58:18","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T23:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2017-07-19T18:09:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T23:09:13","slug":"delights-of-garlic-chives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-critters\/delights-of-garlic-chives\/","title":{"rendered":"Delights of Garlic Chives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of Pam&#8217;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/talesfromthelaboratory.typepad.com\/tales_from_the_microbial_\/2007\/08\/post-1.html?cid=81398601\">Tales from the Microbial Laboratory<\/a> she posted some gorgeous photos of the bug life on her garlic chives (<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plants\/allium.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Allium tuberosum<\/i><\/a>). I&#8217;ve noticed that mine have been buzzing with bees for a couple of weeks. (What a nasty honey that must make!) But it wasn&#8217;t until I saw her photographs that I was inspired to take camera in hand.<\/p>\n<p>The bees were plentiful but camera shy. In all my shots all I got was a blur. Still, as Pam showed me, there is an amazing diversity in the creatures attracted to garlic chives. I&#8217;ll add more photos as I take them.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/AlliumCritters1.jpg\" alt=\"Allium tuberosum\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/AlliumCritters3.jpg\" alt=\"Allium tuberosum\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/AlliumCritters4.jpg\" alt=\"Allium tuberosum\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the things I love about garden blogging is comparing notes with other gardeners near and far. I had all this beauty in my garden but wouldn&#8217;t have given it a careful look if Pam hadn&#8217;t shown me what she saw in her garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/AlliumCritters2.jpg\" alt=\"Allium tuberosum\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5503,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions\/5503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}