{"id":386,"date":"2009-02-09T18:18:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T02:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/orchids-on-a-volcano\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T21:19:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T05:19:05","slug":"orchids-on-a-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/orchids-on-a-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchids on a Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the town of Volcano on the road to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akatsukaorchid.com\/\">Akatsuka Orchid Garden<\/a> has one of the aloha state&#8217;s largest orchid collections. We couldn&#8217;t resist a trip to their store and showroom, and found ourselves there with busloads of tourists who had just visited nearby Kilauea Volcano.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_1_phalaenopsis_maki_watanabe_640px.jpg\" title=\"Phalaenopsis Maki Watanabe\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_1_phalaenopsis_maki_watanabe_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Phalaenopsis Maki Watanabe\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_2_cymbidium_maureen_cater_640px.jpg\" title=\"Cymbidium Maureen Cater\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_2_cymbidium_maureen_cater_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cymbidium Maureen Cater\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_3_dendrobium_tropic_house.jpg\" title=\"Dendrobium Tropic House\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_3_dendrobium_tropic_house.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrobium Tropic House\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of these spectacular hybrids are award-winning varieties grown by Akatsuka. While these pictures can convey a few of the thousands of flowers, they cannot convey the wonderful smells throughout the large showroom. Some of these orchids had strong, sweet scents, and they perfumed the air during our whole visit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_4_cattleya_chocolate_drop_640px.jpg\" title=\"Cattleya Chocolate Drop flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_4_cattleya_chocolate_drop_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cattleya Chocolate Drop flowers\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_5_-coelogyne_bufordiense_x_parishii_black_orchid_640px.jpg\" title=\"Coelogyne Black Orchid flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_5_-coelogyne_bufordiense_x_parishii_black_orchid_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Coelogyne Black Orchid flowers\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_6_potinara_640px.jpg\" title=\"Potinara flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_6_potinara_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Potinara flower\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides lots of flowers, we enjoyed seeing how this large commercial greenhouse was set up. The final 2 pictures below show orchids on greenhouse benches, and spray misters that help <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/humidity.html\">maintain high humidity<\/a>. In addition, there&#8217;s a gift-shop with all sorts of orchid goodies, from books to t-shirts to fridge magnets, for those who want souvenirs that don&#8217;t require light and water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_7_zygonisia_640px.jpg\" title=\"Zygonisia flower and bud\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_7_zygonisia_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Zygonisia flower and bud\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_8_cattleya_bench_640px.jpg\" title=\"Cattleya flowers on greenhouse bench\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_8_cattleya_bench_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cattleya flowers on greenhouse bench\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_9_greenhouse_640px.jpg\" title=\"Orchids and spray misters\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/akatsuka_9_greenhouse_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Orchids and spray misters\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the town of Volcano on the road to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Akatsuka Orchid Garden has one of the aloha state&#8217;s largest orchid collections. We couldn&#8217;t resist a trip to their store and showroom, and found ourselves there with busloads of tourists who had just visited nearby Kilauea Volcano. Many of these spectacular hybrids [&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":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}