{"id":5396,"date":"2013-03-31T22:39:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T04:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2013-03-31T17:10:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T23:10:57","slug":"fairy-houses-bee-houses-and-garden-products-to-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5396","title":{"rendered":"Fairy Houses, Bee Houses, and Garden Products to Avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some fairies are said to live in boulders<\/a>, others perhaps in purpose-built housing.<\/p>\n

In this blog post<\/a>, a professional gardener in southern Colorado moves from greenhouses to fairy houses (with her dad as maintenance man) to bee houses.<\/p>\n

And please scroll to the bottom \u2014 it’s a long post \u2014 for a list of bee-killing garden products to avoid.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some fairies are said to live in boulders, others perhaps in purpose-built housing. In this blog post, a professional gardener in southern Colorado moves from greenhouses to fairy houses (with her dad as maintenance man) to bee houses. 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