{"id":1806,"date":"2010-01-07T21:40:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T05:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2010-06-11T07:12:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T15:12:15","slug":"hyacinth-orchid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/hyacinth-orchid\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyacinth Orchid"},"content":{"rendered":"

January’s chilly start has been perfect for this beautiful Arpophyllum. Here on the California coast, this Cattleya<\/a> relative is blooming outdoors on our back deck, and it’s easy to see how it acquired the nickname “Hyacinth Orchid.” This gorgeous plant was a gift from Dave’s parents, and it’s proving to be a reliable bloomer over the years. Dave took these photos indoors using different lighting than before. This set really brings out the pink in the flowers, but you can compare with the photos from last year<\/a> when the sunlight really showed them in more of a purple hue.<\/p>\n

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This species is native to a large area from Mexico south to Colombia, Venezuela and east to Jamaica. Each 4 – 5 inch (10 – 13 cm) spike has dozens of small flowers neatly arranged in a spiral pattern. The last shot in this set shows unopened buds, a reminder that flowers can have charms even before they bloom.<\/p>\n

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This Hyacinth Orchid supports dozens of flowers even though it’s in its dormant season<\/a>. I just let our sporadic winter rains take care of it, and don’t add water<\/a> or fertilizer<\/a>. With heavier rains, I move it below deck to keep it on the drier side.<\/p>\n

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January’s chilly start has been perfect for this beautiful Arpophyllum. Here on the California coast, this Cattleya relative is blooming outdoors on our back deck, and it’s easy to see how it acquired the nickname “Hyacinth Orchid.” This gorgeous plant was a gift from Dave’s parents, and it’s proving to be a reliable bloomer over […]<\/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":[9,18,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dormancy","category-intermediate-growers","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","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=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}