{"id":8561,"date":"2020-09-07T01:55:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T01:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=8561"},"modified":"2020-09-07T01:55:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T01:55:31","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-230-allium-tuberosum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/07\/plant-a-day-2020-day-230-allium-tuberosum\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 230) Allium tuberosum"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brother Tim gave me a clump of garlic chives five or so years ago.  I don\u2019t even remember they are there until September when they burst into bloom.  The flowers are striking, particularly in the shady raised bed, they populate.  What I noticed today is that they are a great pollinator favorite, so they provide a great place for me to stalk bugs with my macro lens.  Before I had my lens focused, two beautiful golden digger wasps traipsed through the flower heads while chasing each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0627.jpg?resize=474%2C474\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8562\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0627-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8562\" class=\"wp-image-8562\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0627-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024 1024w, 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class=\"wp-image-8568\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0594-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0594-1-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0594-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0594-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0594-1-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0594-1-scaled.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0594-1-scaled.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0608-1.jpg?resize=474%2C632\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8567\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0608-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/img_0608-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-8567\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0608-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0608-1-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0608-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0608-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0608-1-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0608-1-scaled.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0608-1-scaled.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This plant is growing for me in a raised bed that is under a giant Douglas fir tree that  hogs all the water from above and below.  Somehow, garlic chives don\u2019t seem to mind.  The clump is spreading a bit every year.  My future plans for the plant will be to pull a few divisions off of it and add them to the memory garden to attract even more fun pollinators.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother Tim gave me a clump of garlic chives five or so years ago. I don\u2019t even remember they are there until September when they burst into bloom. The flowers are striking, particularly in the shady raised bed, they populate. What I noticed today is that they are a great pollinator favorite, so they provide &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/07\/plant-a-day-2020-day-230-allium-tuberosum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 230) Allium tuberosum<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8570,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions\/8570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}