{"id":1992,"date":"2010-01-25T12:44:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T20:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2010-06-07T17:44:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T01:44:19","slug":"orchid-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/25\/orchid-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden<\/a> is my idea of orchid heaven. A few years ago, Dave and I discovered it by accident as we took a detour onto a scenic road on the Big Island of Hawaii. Now it’s one of our favorite destinations, and a glance at these photos will tell you why.<\/p>\n

\"Phalaenopsis<\/a>\"Oncidium<\/a>\"Dendrobium<\/a><\/p>\n

Located in a tropical rainforest just a few miles north of Hilo, these orchids grow outdoors in the beautifully tended gardens. There’s a special section for orchid displays, but as you look around, you’ll discover orchids are also spread throughout the whole valley. They have many of the most commonly grown varieties, such as Phals<\/a>, Cattleyas<\/a>, Dendrobiums<\/a>, and Oncidiums<\/a>, alongside some less commonly-seen tropical orchids, like the brilliant red Renanthera in the next photo set.<\/p>\n

\"Renanthera<\/a>\"Phalaenopsis<\/a>\"Dendrobium<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Miltassia<\/a>\"Cattleya<\/a>\"Phalaenopsis<\/a><\/p>\n

Besides being a magnificent tourist destination, Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden plays an essential role as a sanctuary for endangered plant species. The Garden operates as a non-profit organization, and is also a study center and seed bank dedicated to conservation of rare tropical plants. If you can’t make it to Hawaii, you can still enjoy their flowers by ordering a tropical flower bouquet from their website<\/a>. They can ship a piece of Hawaiian heaven anywhere in the USA in only 2 days. They obviously have heaven enough to spare.<\/p>\n

\"Odontoglossum<\/a>\"Oncidium<\/a>\"Dendrobium<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden is my idea of orchid heaven. A few years ago, Dave and I discovered it by accident as we took a detour onto a scenic road on the Big Island of Hawaii. Now it’s one of our favorite destinations, and a glance at these photos will tell you why. Located in […]<\/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":[13,21,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-conservation","category-photos","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992","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=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}