{"id":27895,"date":"2017-06-17T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T18:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=27895"},"modified":"2017-06-27T14:11:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T22:11:48","slug":"floridas-million-orchid-project-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/17\/floridas-million-orchid-project-is-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida&#8217;s Million Orchid Project Is Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Million Orchid Project continues to return rare native plants to Florida&#8217;s cities. While earlier efforts have focused on Miami-Dade County, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/local\/palm-beach\/fl-pn-million-orchid-project-20170607-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">volunteers recently attached 250 endangered species to trees, or planted them in the ground, in Boynton Beach, making them the first in Palm Beach County.<\/a> This ambitious experiment is based on a wildly successful project underway for many years in Singapore. South Florida&#8217;s attempt is being led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairchildgarden.org\/science-conservation-\/the-million-orchid-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden<\/a>, and hopes to create thriving populations of rare, native orchid species. Learn more from earlier posts about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/the-million-orchid-project\/\">The Million Orchid Project<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/08\/an-orchid-revival-in-south-florida\/\">An Orchid Revival in South Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Million Orchid Project continues to return rare native plants to Florida&#8217;s cities. While earlier efforts have focused on Miami-Dade County, volunteers recently attached 250 endangered species to trees, or planted them in the ground, in Boynton Beach, making them the first in Palm Beach County. This ambitious experiment is based on a wildly successful [&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":[21,22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-in-the-news","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27895","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=27895"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27910,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27895\/revisions\/27910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}