{"id":21817,"date":"2015-04-09T20:11:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T04:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=21817"},"modified":"2015-06-11T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T16:44:17","slug":"a-floating-orchid-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/a-floating-orchid-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"A Floating Orchid Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking to relax? How about a calming visit to floating orchid forest? Tokyo\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miraikan.jst.go.jp\/en\/exhibition\/tsunagari\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miraikan Museum<\/a> has just what you need. As guests walk though the exhibit in the video below, computers\u00a0gently raise and lower thousands of living orchids hanging from the ceiling. It&#8217;s reminiscent of the lush beauty of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003EVWDR0\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B003EVWDR0&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=abouorch-20&amp;linkId=2XV6FEE7L7GSJ5LP\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Avatar<\/em><\/a>, and I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s full of wonderful fragrances, too.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Floating Flower Garden \u2013 \u82b1\u3068\u6211\u3068\u540c\u6839\u3001\u5ead\u3068\u6211\u3068\u4e00\u4f53\u3068 \u03b2Ver.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/brtqGLQb4fY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you can emerge from the trance of this dreamy video, you may notice that these orchids are bare-root, not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/potting.html\">potted<\/a> at all. Hanging in the air is very familiar for these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/17\/up-a-tree-2\/\">air plants<\/a>, although they are typically attached to trees, not the ceiling. As long as they have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/water.html\">water<\/a>, good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/humidity.html\">humidity<\/a>, and a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/fertilizer.html\">fertilizer<\/a>, this exhibit could continue to live, grow, and bloom indefinitely. However, this floating dance of flowers, leaves, and roots only runs until May 10th. <a href=\"http:\/\/clapway.com\/2015\/03\/28\/unforgettable-video-of-the-floating-flower-garden123\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about the exhibit here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking to relax? How about a calming visit to floating orchid forest? Tokyo\u2019s Miraikan Museum has just what you need. As guests walk though the exhibit in the video below, computers\u00a0gently raise and lower thousands of living orchids hanging from the ceiling. It&#8217;s reminiscent of the lush beauty of Avatar, and I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s full [&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":[20,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817","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=21817"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22278,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817\/revisions\/22278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}