{"id":22470,"date":"2015-07-17T18:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T02:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=22470"},"modified":"2015-10-14T17:57:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T01:57:13","slug":"orchids-at-chelsea-physic-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/17\/orchids-at-chelsea-physic-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchids at Chelsea Physic Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where can you find orchids in London besides Kew Gardens<\/a>? Try the smaller, lesser-known, and older Chelsea Physic Garden<\/a>. Inside its glasshouses, Chelsea Physic Garden houses a small but impressive orchid display. Founded in 1673 to study medicinal plants, it’s one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world, 86 years older than Kew. I visited at the end of June, and found some great orchids in bloom. There were several beautiful and bizarre Stanhopeas<\/a> in bud, and a couple more in flower.<\/p>\n

\"Stanhopea<\/a>\"Stanhopea<\/a>\"Stanhopea<\/a><\/p>\n

These orchids were on display in the glasshouses next to the Gift Shop. The Tropical Corridor Glasshouse showcased this brilliant white Sobralia blossom<\/a> and climbing Vanilla vine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Sobralia<\/a>\"Vanilla<\/a>\"Lycaste<\/a><\/p>\n

There were several large orchids hanging in intermediate glasshouses, too, including the Dendrobium<\/a> and Coelogyne<\/a> in the final two photos. They must be spectacular when in bloom, and they’re both fragrant, also.<\/p>\n

\"Chelsea<\/a>\"Dendrobium<\/a>\"Coelogyne<\/a><\/p>\n

Orchids are just a small part of Chelsea Physic Garden. Its main displays highlight medicinal, edible, and other useful plants, and also feature a new woodland grove. Don’t miss historic Chelsea Physic Garden when visiting London!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where can you find orchids in London besides Kew Gardens? Try the smaller, lesser-known, and older Chelsea Physic Garden. Inside its glasshouses, Chelsea Physic Garden houses a small but impressive orchid display. Founded in 1673 to study medicinal plants, it’s one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world, 86 years older than Kew. I […]<\/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":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22470","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=22470"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22534,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22470\/revisions\/22534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}