{"id":34554,"date":"2020-02-13T21:18:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T05:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=34554"},"modified":"2020-02-15T12:04:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T20:04:09","slug":"orchid-valentines-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/13\/orchid-valentines-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Valentines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_Kingcar_Bonnie_Girls_DC6063_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34561 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_Kingcar_Bonnie_Girls_DC6063_800px-96x128.jpg\" alt=\"Phalaenopsis Kingcar Bonnie Girls 'DC6063', Phal orchid hybrid flowers, Moth Orchid, Pacific Orchid Expo 2013, San Francisco, California\" width=\"96\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_Kingcar_Bonnie_Girls_DC6063_800px-96x128.jpg 96w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_Kingcar_Bonnie_Girls_DC6063_800px-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_Kingcar_Bonnie_Girls_DC6063_800px.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrids_800px-08-06-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34560 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrids_800px-08-06-2019-128x96.jpg\" alt=\"Phalaenopsis, Phal orchid hybrid flowers in a variety of colors, Moth Orchids, Orchids in the Park 2019, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrids_800px-08-06-2019-128x96.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrids_800px-08-06-2019-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrids_800px-08-06-2019-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrids_800px-08-06-2019.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrid_800px-05-12-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34559 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrid_800px-05-12-13-128x96.jpg\" alt=\"Phalaenopsis, Phal orchid hybrid flowers, Moth Orchid, Pacific Orchid Expo 2013, San Francisco, California\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrid_800px-05-12-13-128x96.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrid_800px-05-12-13-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrid_800px-05-12-13-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Phalaenopsis_hybrid_800px-05-12-13.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Orchids have become so favored as Valentine&#8217;s gifts that it&#8217;s now a common dilemma whether to keep the plant afterwards. Many think that orchids are impossible to grow, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/14\/valentines-orchid-care\/\">with basic care info, common varieties are easy<\/a>.\u00a0 The most popular are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Moth Orchids<\/a>, like those pictured in the photos above. Check out more tips about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/23\/watering\/\">proper watering<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/27\/water-orchids-more-during-a-heatwave\/\">good humidity<\/a> to help your plant. With a little attention to its needs, your gift will stay in bloom longer, and bloom again, so you can enjoy it for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchids have become so favored as Valentine&#8217;s gifts that it&#8217;s now a common dilemma whether to keep the plant afterwards. Many think that orchids are impossible to grow, but with basic care info, common varieties are easy.\u00a0 The most popular are Moth Orchids, like those pictured in the photos above. Check out more tips about [&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":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34554","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=34554"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34578,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34554\/revisions\/34578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}