Several photos recently posted on Facebook by Gloucester Master Gardener Beve Hermanson made me chuckle. Beve called the photo series “Nighttime in the Garden,” and the pictures were lovely, with the white, six-petaled flowers of garlic chives (Allium tuberosum) predominant among other shrubs and perennials. I laughed to myself because I learned by experience that if you don’t remove the seedheads from garlic chives before the seeds dry and turn black, you will have many more garlic chives plants next year and the year after that and forever. I started with three garlic chives plants in raised bed herb garden, after which I divided them and moved several to a half-whisky barrel by the front gate where they exploded into a dazzling late-summer array of creamy white blossoms covered with various species of butterflies and bees. I couldn’t snap enough photos and videos, and as August moved into September and the little flying creatures kept visiting the flowers, I didn’t have the heart to...