{"id":11122,"date":"2012-02-07T18:37:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T02:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=11122"},"modified":"2012-03-08T16:45:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T00:45:13","slug":"be-my-orchid-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/be-my-orchid-valentine\/","title":{"rendered":"Be My Orchid Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orchid make beautiful, elegant, and fashionable Valentine gifts. Whether for love or friendship, they&#8217;re popular holiday flowers. However, picking the best one can be tricky. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/category\/buying-tips\/\">Orchid buying tips<\/a> can be helpful for smart shoppers, but many orchid purchases aren&#8217;t about logic. Most of us have succumbed to the impulse buy. For me, it usually involves an exotic flower stopping me in my tracks. Before long, I&#8217;m mentally rearranging my other plants to find room. That&#8217;s not the ideal way to add to my collection, but when buying a gift, it&#8217;s fine to let your passion be your guide. Mostly you&#8217;ll find human-made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/04\/hybrid-vigor\/\">hybrids<\/a> for sale, grown for their vigor and exceptional blooms. There are countless varieties to choose from, but trust that your heart will know which is best.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrid_800px.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-11126\" title=\"Phal flowers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrid_800px-128x96.jpg\" alt=\"Phal flowers\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrid_800px-128x96.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrid_800px-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrid_800px.JPG 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Cymbidium_hybrid_640px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-11125\" title=\"Cymbidium flower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Cymbidium_hybrid_640px-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"Cymbidium flower\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Cymbidium_hybrid_640px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Cymbidium_hybrid_640px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Cymbidium_hybrid_640px.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Cattleya_hybrid_800px.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-11124\" title=\"Cattleya flowers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Cattleya_hybrid_800px-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"Cattleya flowers\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Cattleya_hybrid_800px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Cattleya_hybrid_800px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Cattleya_hybrid_800px.JPG 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchid make beautiful, elegant, and fashionable Valentine gifts. Whether for love or friendship, they&#8217;re popular holiday flowers. However, picking the best one can be tricky. Orchid buying tips can be helpful for smart shoppers, but many orchid purchases aren&#8217;t about logic. Most of us have succumbed to the impulse buy. For me, it usually involves [&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":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buying-tips","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11122","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=11122"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11150,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11122\/revisions\/11150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}