{"id":25362,"date":"2016-06-20T11:10:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T19:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=25362"},"modified":"2016-07-28T09:16:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T17:16:53","slug":"the-longest-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/20\/the-longest-days\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longest Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

The summer solstice brings the longest days and shortest nights of the year. Humans, like plants, love that extra sunshine. To help celebrate today’s solstice, here are more photos from Dave’s recent visit to the Montreal Botanical Garden<\/a>. I’ve already devoted two posts<\/a> to the garden, and there’s still more to see. No orchids in this post, but there’s lots of botanical beauty.<\/p>\n

\"Dichorisandra<\/a>\"Reception<\/a>\"Begonia<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinese<\/a>\"Lilac<\/a>\"Ginkgo<\/a><\/p>\n

Whether it’s a fragrant lilac, a field of tulips, or a 275-year-old bonsai, plants grow with extra vigor in the extra hours of sunshine. More light means more photosynthesis, which means more energy for growth and blooms. Of course, it doesn’t work the same way for humans, but I certainly thrive with the long days. Maybe it’s just because there’s extra time to work in our garden and enjoy the orchids. I hope your solstice gives you time to enjoy some natural beauty, too.<\/p>\n

\"Ferns<\/a>\"Juniperus<\/a>\"Japanese<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Field<\/a>\"Tulips,<\/a>\"Flower<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The summer solstice brings the longest days and shortest nights of the year. Humans, like plants, love that extra sunshine. To help celebrate today’s solstice, here are more photos from Dave’s recent visit to the Montreal Botanical Garden. I’ve already devoted two posts to the garden, and there’s still more to see. No orchids 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":[13,17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-general-gardening","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25362","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=25362"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25397,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25362\/revisions\/25397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}