{"id":13103,"date":"2012-09-22T06:50:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T14:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=13103"},"modified":"2013-01-03T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T18:27:07","slug":"orchid-in-the-park-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/22\/orchid-in-the-park-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid in the Park 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrate today’s change of season with these gems from last weekend’s Orchids in the Park<\/a>. The annual event put on by the San Francisco Orchid Society<\/a> featured a multitude of treasures. Here’s a small sample —<\/p>\n

\"Purple<\/a>\"Masdevallia<\/a>\"Lady<\/a><\/p>\n

The colors, scents, and shapes of orchids are certainly spectacular. Unexpected patterns emerge, like those of the Phal<\/a> species in the next Orchids in the Park photo. It’s aptly named Phalaenopsis hieroglyphica, but it’s not Ancient Egyptian<\/a> or Mayan<\/a>. Is it speaking Orchid? In the middle photo, the brilliant colors of a mini Dendrobium<\/a> species grow even more remarkable upon realizing that these blooms survive cold winds on New Guinea’s<\/a> highest mountains. In the last photo, within a single glass container, Jewel Orchids earn their name from their colors and fractal<\/a> leaf patterns. They don’t even need to bloom to impress, and you can fit a bunch into a large jar. That’s my idea of a happy equinox.<\/p>\n

\"Phalaenopsis<\/a>\"Colorful<\/a>\"Jewel<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s a lot more from Dave’s and my cameras to share, so check back soon for additional photos from another successful Orchids in the Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrate today’s change of season with these gems from last weekend’s Orchids in the Park. The annual event put on by the San Francisco Orchid Society featured a multitude of treasures. Here’s a small sample — The colors, scents, and shapes of orchids are certainly spectacular. Unexpected patterns emerge, like those of the Phal species […]<\/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":[11,27,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-growing-orchids-in-san-francisco","category-mini-orchids","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103","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=13103"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13144,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103\/revisions\/13144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}