{"id":3986,"date":"2010-06-28T21:32:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T05:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2010-12-31T11:11:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T19:11:51","slug":"wild-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/28\/wild-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As summer begins, <a href=\"http:\/\/anewscafe.com\/2010\/06\/26\/where-the-wild-and-cultivated-orchids-bloom-an-interview-with-donna-and-dick-murrill-of-durham\/\" target=\"_blank\">this news article describes wild orchids blooming across Northern California<\/a>. There are photos of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/05\/stream-orchid\/\">the Stream Orchid, Epipactis gigantea<\/a>, growing in the wild, and info about other lesser-known, but still fascinating, Golden State species. The article includes a good summary of orchid care basics for more commonly grown varieties.<\/p>\n<p>Wild orchids are also blossoming in the UK, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/gardening\/gardenstovisit\/7854730\/Return-of-the-British-orchid.html\" target=\"_blank\">an article in <em>The Telegraph<\/em> of London details some fascinating British natives<\/a>. There&#8217;s a list of good locales to explore for wild orchids. No matter what country you&#8217;re in, enjoy the orchids, but leave them be; it&#8217;s illegal to remove orchids from the wild or cut their flowers.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, it&#8217;s back to California for <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kgo\/story?section=news\/local\/south_bay&amp;id=7507535\" target=\"_blank\">a news story about orchid scholarships<\/a> in Salinas. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matsuinursery.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matsui Nursery<\/a> is the largest commercial orchid nursery in the USA, and many orchids in homes and offices across North America have come from Matsui&#8217;s greenhouses. The owner&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andymatsuifoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andy  Matsui Foundation<\/a> awards 18 college scholarships every year to deserving  Monterey County students. As North Salinas High School Principal August Caresani said, &#8220;Mr. Matsui is growing dreams&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As summer begins, this news article describes wild orchids blooming across Northern California. There are photos of the Stream Orchid, Epipactis gigantea, growing in the wild, and info about other lesser-known, but still fascinating, Golden State species. The article includes a good summary of orchid care basics for more commonly grown varieties. Wild orchids are [&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":[22,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-orchids-in-the-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986","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=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6170,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions\/6170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}