{"id":21759,"date":"2015-04-06T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T04:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=21759"},"modified":"2015-08-03T10:18:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T18:18:33","slug":"orchids-at-the-uc-botanical-garden-at-berkeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/06\/orchids-at-the-uc-botanical-garden-at-berkeley\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchids at the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s easy to spend a whole day enjoying the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley<\/a>. Established in 1890, it has one of the largest and most diverse plant collections in the country, spread over 34 acres (13.8 hectares) of gardens and greenhouses. Among the botanical treasures, there are many unusual orchid species, which are rotated through the displays as they come into bloom. These beauties were a few of the highlights of our visit last month.<\/p>\n

\"Masdevallia<\/a>\"Bulbophyllum<\/a>\"Dendrochilum<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Porroglossum<\/a>\"Ornithidium<\/a>\"Masdevallia<\/a><\/p>\n

Most of the orchids are displayed in the Orchid, Fern & Carnivorous Plant House<\/a>. There are some in the Tropical House<\/a>, too. The final photo shows a Chinese Ground Orchid<\/a> outdoors in the Chinese Medicinal Herb Garden<\/a>. This Asian species has long been used as an herbal remedy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The garden also features an extensive collection of California native species, many unusual varieties of cacti and succulents, and plants from areas of the world with Mediterranean climates. It’s all incredibly gorgeous, and well worth a visit.<\/p>\n

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

It’s easy to spend a whole day enjoying the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley. Established in 1890, it has one of the largest and most diverse plant collections in the country, spread over 34 acres (13.8 hectares) of gardens and greenhouses. Among the botanical treasures, there are many unusual orchid species, which are rotated through […]<\/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":[13,27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-growing-orchids-in-san-francisco","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21759","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=21759"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22633,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21759\/revisions\/22633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}