{"id":15950,"date":"2013-07-06T09:16:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T17:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=15950"},"modified":"2013-08-02T09:37:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T17:37:45","slug":"summer-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/06\/summer-blooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been awhile since I’ve shared pictures from our back garden, so I went out with my camera during this week’s warm spell to snap a few shots. From Violas to Lily of the Nile to Nasturtiums<\/a>, there’s plenty in bloom.<\/p>\n

\"Violas<\/a>\"Agapanthus<\/a>\"Nasturtium<\/a><\/p>\n

There are always orchids in bloom on the back deck. One of my favorites, a Masdevallia species from Bolivia<\/a>, flowers reliably every summer. My old pink Cymbidium<\/a> blooms over winter, and usually drops its flowers in spring. However, this year it’s been happy enough to keep blooming into summer. The last picture shows a fuchsia. From similar humid jungles as orchids, they all love San Francisco’s fog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Masdevallia<\/a>\"Cymbidium<\/a>\"Fuchsia<\/a><\/p>\n

Another fuchsia with smaller blooms shows why they’re local garden favorites. Finally, small succulents have interesting architectures, demonstrating that flowers aren’t always necessary to stand out in a summer garden.<\/p>\n

\"Mini<\/a>\"Succulent\"<\/a>\"Close<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been awhile since I’ve shared pictures from our back garden, so I went out with my camera during this week’s warm spell to snap a few shots. From Violas to Lily of the Nile to Nasturtiums, there’s plenty in bloom. There are always orchids in bloom on the back deck. One of my favorites, […]<\/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":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-gardening","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15950","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=15950"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15993,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15950\/revisions\/15993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}