{"id":6035,"date":"2006-08-06T20:36:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T20:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2006\/08\/something-to-thank-some-keel-slugs-for\/"},"modified":"2006-08-06T20:36:46","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T20:36:46","slug":"something-to-thank-some-keel-slugs-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/08\/06\/something-to-thank-some-keel-slugs-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Something to thank some keel slugs for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"cardoon\" alt=\"cardoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/images\/cardoon.jpg\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to some evil keel slugs, I&#8217;ve discovered that cardoons have scented flowers.<\/p>\n<p>We have a huge and handsome cardoon that somewhat dominates one corner of the garden. Early in the year it gives us impressive silvery leaves. Now it has huge stems, around 7 feet tall, bearing enormous fist-sized spiky thistle flowers. Unfortunately, I hadn&#8217;t noticed that a small group of <a title=\"evil\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themolluscicide.com\/molluscicide\/en\/slugs\/0\/milax.-ParSys-0001-Image.ParSysimage.gif\" target=\"_blank\">Milax budapestensis<\/a> and <a title=\"equally evil\" href=\"http:\/\/galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu\/~jovanm\/zoology\/z025.gif\" target=\"_blank\">Milax sowerbyi<\/a> had set up home in the bottom of my Cynara cardunculus, and the former chewed through the stem of the latter and felled our beauty as a hairy checked-shirt-wearing Canadian might fell a spruce. Woe indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Determined not to have all our gardening fun destroyed, I immediately set about a scorched-earth treatment of the garden with small blue metaldehyde-laced bran pellets, with the result that there are now corpses everywhere. I also cut the fallen stem and put the thistley heads into a vase on the dining table.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, as I came into the conservatory (where our dining table resides), there was a distinct\u00a0scent of honey coming from the cardoon flowers. This explains why bees are so attracted to them and is a discovery I&#8217;ve made thanks to the intervention of the evil keel slugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to some evil keel slugs, I&#8217;ve discovered that cardoons have scented flowers. We have a huge and handsome cardoon that somewhat dominates one corner of the garden. Early in the year it gives us impressive silvery leaves. Now it has huge stems, around 7 feet tall, bearing enormous fist-sized spiky thistle flowers. Unfortunately, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-and-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}