{"id":29355,"date":"2019-07-18T16:56:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=29355"},"modified":"2019-07-18T17:01:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:01:13","slug":"bees-on-the-leek-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=29355","title":{"rendered":"Bees on the leek flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only have the leek flowers turned out to be spectacular after all but the bees love them. When I sit in the garden I see masses of honey bees all over the leek flowers. There is a constant busyness and some flower heads have six bees on at a time.<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to catch the bees in larger numbers as they are coming and going constantly but I tried to get a photo with a few at a time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29376\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=29376\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29376\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29376\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29376\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/there-are-four-bees-on-this-leek-flower-head.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/there-are-four-bees-on-this-leek-flower-head.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/there-are-four-bees-on-this-leek-flower-head-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/there-are-four-bees-on-this-leek-flower-head-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are four bees on this leek flower head if you look carefully<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_29377\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=29377\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29377\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29377\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29377\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Imore-bees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Imore-bees.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Imore-bees-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Imore-bees-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More bees<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My husband suggested we should grow some leeks, in groups, in the flower beds next year as they have been amazing and so long lasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only have the leek flowers turned out to be spectacular after all but the bees love them. When I sit in the garden I see masses of honey bees all over the leek flowers. There is a constant busyness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=29355\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29380,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29355\/revisions\/29380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}