{"id":27971,"date":"2017-07-05T20:47:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T04:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=27971"},"modified":"2017-07-13T21:21:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T05:21:44","slug":"blooming-in-our-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/05\/blooming-in-our-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Blooming in Our Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Masdevallia<\/a>\"Nasturtium<\/a>\"Cymbidium<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite wind, fog, bugs, raccoons, and other gardening obstacles, our backyard in Pacifica is full of blooms for the start of summer. There’s lots of lush growth from our drought-busting winter. Even orchids that like a dry winter dormancy<\/a> didn’t seem to mind the heavy rains, like the purple Zygo<\/a> and white Dendrobium<\/a> in the next two photos below. By the way, those same two orchids have powerful, sweet fragrances which are my favorite scents in the garden.<\/p>\n

\"Zygopetalum<\/a>\"Dendrobium<\/a>\"Violet<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Pink_Clover,<\/a>\"Nasturtium<\/a>\"Epidendrum<\/a><\/p>\n

Among the non-orchids in bloom, nasturtiums have happily taken over parts of our yard, each a sunnier color than the last. Pink Clover has spread from nearby flowerpots to sprout out of cracks in the concrete patio. And I normally pull out any weeds growing in my orchid pots, but my biggest Cymbidium<\/a> is hosting a few volunteer violets for now. I don’t know where they arrived from, but they’re my kind of weeds. Check back soon for more of our garden blooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite wind, fog, bugs, raccoons, and other gardening obstacles, our backyard in Pacifica is full of blooms for the start of summer. There’s lots of lush growth from our drought-busting winter. Even orchids that like a dry winter dormancy didn’t seem to mind the heavy rains, like the purple Zygo and white Dendrobium in the […]<\/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":[15,12,17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-fragrant-orchids","category-general-gardening","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27971","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=27971"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28004,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27971\/revisions\/28004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}