{"id":437,"date":"2009-03-08T17:41:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T01:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/08\/pacific-orchid-expo-2009\/"},"modified":"2012-06-21T09:49:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T17:49:56","slug":"pacific-orchid-expo-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/08\/pacific-orchid-expo-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Orchid Expo 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0 if you put 150,000 orchid flowers in a room, what will you have? Answer:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchidsanfrancisco.org\/poe.html\">the 2009 Pacific Orchid Exposition in San Francisco<\/a>.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll also have Dave and me running around with our cameras, trying to take pictures of as many of those flowers as possible. Here are a few samples:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cattleya hybrid\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cattleya_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cattleya_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cattleya hybrid\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Cymbidium orchids\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cymbidiums_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cymbidiums_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cymbidium orchids\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Odontoglossum hybrid\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/rhynchostele_bictoniense_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/rhynchostele_bictoniense_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Odontoglossum hybrid\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s theme was &#8220;Green&#8230;with Envy,&#8221; highlighting environmental responsibility with these treasures of nature. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Phalaenopsis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/dendrobium.html\">Dendrobium<\/a> flowers below could certainly make any orchid lover envious.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Phalaenopsis hybrid\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/doritenopsis_alisun_rainbow_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/doritenopsis_alisun_rainbow_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Phalaenopsis hybrid\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Dendrobium flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/dendrobium_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/dendrobium_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrobium flowers\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Dendrobium flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/dendrobium_speciosum_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/dendrobium_speciosum_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrobium flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides green, there were plenty of incredible colors to be seen. Here are an orange and red Eriopsis, yellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/masdevallia.html\">Masdevallia<\/a>, and diverse varieties of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/paphiopedilum.html\">Paphiopedilums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eriopsis flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/eriopsis_ruditobulbon_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/eriopsis_ruditobulbon_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Eriopsis flowers\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Masdevallia flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/masdevallia_kimballiana_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/masdevallia_kimballiana_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Masdevallia flowers\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Lady Slipper flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/paphiopedilums_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/paphiopedilums_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Lady Slipper flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0 if you put 150,000 orchid flowers in a room, what will you have? Answer:\u00a0 the 2009 Pacific Orchid Exposition in San Francisco.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll also have Dave and me running around with our cameras, trying to take pictures of as many of those flowers as possible. Here are a few samples: This year&#8217;s theme was [&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":[11,27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-growing-orchids-in-san-francisco","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12396,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/12396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}