{"id":37420,"date":"2020-01-20T10:08:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T21:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=37420"},"modified":"2020-01-20T10:08:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T21:08:42","slug":"a-snippet-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2020\/01\/20\/a-snippet-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Snippet of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I thought I’d share this photo as a wee snippet of my Southern hemisphere summer. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The shrub is a hebe, a cultivar of a New Zealand native. This particular kind, with its flowers shading from pink to white is called “Icing Sugar.”<\/p>\n

The reason “this photo” though, is because it’s alive with bees: bumble bees, honey bees, and NZ native bees, too — and has been for weeks now. They’re a tad hard to pick out though (although there were masses of them at work) so I honed in on this bumblebee for a closer look.<\/p>\n

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For me, a garden that’s alive with bees is quintessentially summery — and also makes me feel that I’m doing something for the planet by having a garden that attracts them, since both honey bees and NZ native bees have been hit hard over the past few decades, in particular.<\/p>\n

Watching the bees so busy at work also makes me think of Alison Moyet’s song, Honey for the Bees<\/a> — an oldie now, but still a goodie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought I’d share this photo as a wee snippet of my Southern hemisphere summer. \ud83d\ude42 The shrub is a hebe, a cultivar of a New Zealand native. This particular kind, with its flowers shading from pink to white is called “Icing Sugar.” The reason “this photo” though, is because it’s alive with bees: bumble […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37426,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37420\/revisions\/37426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}