{"id":13088,"date":"2012-09-17T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=13088"},"modified":"2012-11-04T23:15:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T07:15:42","slug":"late-summer-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/17\/late-summer-blooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Summer Blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As summer winds down, floral delights abound in our back garden. A quick tour starts with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/07\/bolivian-beauty\/\">a magnificent Masdevallia<\/a>, which has been in constant bloom since April. This speckled purple species seems to have the resilience of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/04\/hybrid-vigor\/\">hybrid<\/a>, at least in our mild coastal climate. Next is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/06\/cyrtochilum\/\">a brilliant yellow, purple, and white Cyrtochilum<\/a>, an unusual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/oncidium.html\">Oncidium<\/a> relative. Dozens of its blooms emerge from a long, vine-like flower spike which wraps around nearby plants. Finally, a cheery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/epidendrum\/\">Epidendrum<\/a> hybrid sports festive pink highlights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Masdevallia_chaparensis_800px.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-13091\" title=\"Masdevallia flowers and leaves\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Masdevallia_chaparensis_800px-128x96.jpg\" alt=\"Masdevallia flowers and leaves\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Masdevallia_chaparensis_800px-128x96.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Masdevallia_chaparensis_800px-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Masdevallia_chaparensis_800px.JPG 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cyrtochilum_macranthum_800px.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-13089\" title=\"Cyrtochilum flower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cyrtochilum_macranthum_800px-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"Cyrtochilum flower\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cyrtochilum_macranthum_800px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cyrtochilum_macranthum_800px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cyrtochilum_macranthum_800px.JPG 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Epidendrum_Wedding_Valley_Sakura_Komachi_800px.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-13090\" title=\"Epidendrum flowers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Epidendrum_Wedding_Valley_Sakura_Komachi_800px-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"Epidendrum flowers\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Epidendrum_Wedding_Valley_Sakura_Komachi_800px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Epidendrum_Wedding_Valley_Sakura_Komachi_800px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Epidendrum_Wedding_Valley_Sakura_Komachi_800px.JPG 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These photos are just scratching the surface of what&#8217;s in bloom. Check back soon for more from our garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As summer winds down, floral delights abound in our back garden. A quick tour starts with a magnificent Masdevallia, which has been in constant bloom since April. This speckled purple species seems to have the resilience of a hybrid, at least in our mild coastal climate. Next is a brilliant yellow, purple, and white Cyrtochilum, [&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":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13088","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=13088"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13445,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13088\/revisions\/13445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}