{"id":192,"date":"2008-09-19T11:28:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T19:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/19\/puerto-vallarta-botanical-gardens\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T21:20:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T05:20:29","slug":"puerto-vallarta-botanical-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/19\/puerto-vallarta-botanical-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a regular visitor to Puerto Vallarta over the years, it&#8217;s exciting for me to learn about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallartabotanicalgardensac.org\/index.htm\">Vallarta Botanical Gardens<\/a>. About 1\/2 -hour drive south of Puerto Vallarta, the gardens were opened in 2005 in the coastal mountains of the Mexican state of Jalisco. Their mission is &#8220;the propagation, promotion, study, enjoyment and discovery of Mexican plants, especially orchids.&#8221; With more than 3000 plant species to enjoy, there are orchids, palms, ferns, bromeliads, and cactus. Among the orchids are Mexican natives such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cattleya.html\">Laelias<\/a>, Sobralias, and Vanillas.<\/p>\n<p>The Vallarta Botanical Garden is a non-profit organization working to fight habitat destruction, counter over-collection of native orchids, and preserve Mexico&#8217;s greatest botanical treasures. Visitors can enjoy orchid conservatories, tropical gardens, birdwatching, hiking trails, and the Plantation House Restaurant and Visitors&#8217; Center. We&#8217;ll definitely visit on our next trip to Mexico, but for now we&#8217;ll have to just enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallartabotanicalgardensac.org\/index.htm\">visiting online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a regular visitor to Puerto Vallarta over the years, it&#8217;s exciting for me to learn about Vallarta Botanical Gardens. About 1\/2 -hour drive south of Puerto Vallarta, the gardens were opened in 2005 in the coastal mountains of the Mexican state of Jalisco. Their mission is &#8220;the propagation, promotion, study, enjoyment and discovery of [&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":[13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","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=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}