{"id":10250,"date":"2012-01-10T23:24:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T07:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=10250"},"modified":"2012-04-30T22:00:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T06:00:33","slug":"winter-orchid-exhibits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/winter-orchid-exhibits\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Orchid Exhibits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Botanical gardens offer great escapes from winter&#8217;s doldrums. Visit these special orchid displays and transport yourself to the tropics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 14 &#8211; March 4<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"    http:\/\/phipps.conservatory.org\/exhibits-and-events\/featured-event.aspx?eventid=451\" target=\"_blank\">Phipps Conservatory Orchid and Tropical Bonsai Show<\/a> welcomes guests to stroll through their spectacular gardens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The show highlights orchids like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Phals<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/paphiopedilum.html\">Paphs<\/a> along with the Japanese art of miniature trees. The conservatory also presents practical growing tips for orchids and bonsais.<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 20 &#8211; March 18<\/strong><br \/>\nDaniel Stowe Botanical Garden near Charlotte, North Carolina invites visitors to &#8220;Join the Expedition&#8221; for its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsbg.org\/events_detail.php?id=1780#title\" target=\"_blank\">Orchid Spectacular.<\/a> The event focuses on 19th century explorers who risked life and limb searching for unknown orchids. The garden features 5000 orchids and orchid classes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 20 &#8211; March 25<\/strong><br \/>\nNear Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longwoodgardens.org\/orchidextravaganza.html\" target=\"_blank\">Longwood Gardens Orchid Extravaganza<\/a> provides a refuge from winter with thousands of flowers. This year&#8217;s event fills their conservatory with a variety of orchid displays, including an arch covered with 350 white <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Phals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<h4>Winter Carnival Orchid Show<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botanical gardens offer great escapes from winter&#8217;s doldrums. Visit these special orchid displays and transport yourself to the tropics. January 14 &#8211; March 4 Phipps Conservatory Orchid and Tropical Bonsai Show welcomes guests to stroll through their spectacular gardens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The show highlights orchids like Phals and Paphs along with the Japanese art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10250"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11858,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250\/revisions\/11858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}