{"id":330,"date":"2009-01-08T16:06:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T00:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/08\/strybing-arboretum\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T21:21:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T05:21:19","slug":"strybing-arboretum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/08\/strybing-arboretum\/","title":{"rendered":"Strybing Arboretum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave and I decided to welcome the new year with a visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfbotanicalgarden.org\/\">Strybing Arboretum<\/a> in Golden Gate Park. The Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum has thousands of varieties of plants from all over the world. We didn&#8217;t see any orchids, but we enjoyed some of the other sites of the park.<\/p>\n<p>First, there&#8217;s a beautiful Princess Flower against a background of ferns. In the middle, this great Heather shrub is a South African native. On the right, a large bromeliad sports a bright red bloom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/tibouchina_urvilleana_and_fern_strybing_arboretum_640px.jpg\" title=\"Princess Flower and fern in Golden Gate Park\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/tibouchina_urvilleana_and_fern_strybing_arboretum_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Princess Flower and fern in Golden Gate Park\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/erica_canaliculata_strybing_arboretum_640px.jpg\" title=\"Heather flowers at Golden Gate Park\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/erica_canaliculata_strybing_arboretum_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Heather flowers at Golden Gate Park\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bromeliad_strybing_arboretum_640px.jpg\" title=\"Bromeliad flower at Golden Gate Park\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bromeliad_strybing_arboretum_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Bromeliad flower at Golden Gate Park\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what this flower is on the left, but I loved the shape and structure. The aloe in the middle is another fascinating South African native, with a hypnotic spiral growth pattern. On the right, a bed of ferns adorns the base of the new de Young Museum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/flower_strybing_arboretum_640px.jpg\" title=\"Flower at Golden Gate Park\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/flower_strybing_arboretum_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Flower at Golden Gate Park\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/aloe_polyphylla_strybing_arboretum_640px.jpg\" title=\"Aloe at Golden Gate Park\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/aloe_polyphylla_strybing_arboretum_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Aloe at Golden Gate Park\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ferns_at_deyoung_museum_640px.jpg\" title=\"Ferns at the DeYoung in Golden Gate Park\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ferns_at_deyoung_museum_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Ferns at the DeYoung in Golden Gate Park\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A young boy walking near us at a pond thought this was an evil red-eyed duck. I&#8217;m not very good at identifying birds, but I think it&#8217;s a coot. It could still be evil, though. On the right, 2 park residents warm up in the winter sun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/coot_strybing_arboretum_640px.jpg\" title=\"Coot at Golden Gate Park\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/coot_strybing_arboretum_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Coot at Golden Gate Park\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/turtles_strybing_arboretum_640px.jpg\" title=\"Turtles at Golden Gate Park\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/turtles_strybing_arboretum_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Turtles at Golden Gate Park\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave and I decided to welcome the new year with a visit to Strybing Arboretum in Golden Gate Park. The Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum has thousands of varieties of plants from all over the world. We didn&#8217;t see any orchids, but we enjoyed some of the other sites of the park. First, there&#8217;s a [&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":[13,17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","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\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}