{"id":47532,"date":"2024-12-21T11:28:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T19:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=47532"},"modified":"2025-01-01T09:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T17:39:21","slug":"a-season-of-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/21\/a-season-of-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"A Season of Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Caucaea_phalaenopsis_1_1000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47536 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Caucaea_phalaenopsis_1_1000px-96x128.jpg\" alt=\"Caucaea phalaenopsis, AKA Oncidium phalaenopsis, orchid species flower, miniature orchid, grown outdoors in Pacifica, California\" width=\"96\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Caucaea_phalaenopsis_1_1000px-96x128.jpg 96w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Caucaea_phalaenopsis_1_1000px-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Caucaea_phalaenopsis_1_1000px.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Caucaea_phalaenopsis_2_1000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47537 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Caucaea_phalaenopsis_2_1000px-128x96.jpg\" alt=\"Caucaea phalaenopsis, AKA Oncidium phalaenopsis, orchid species flowers, miniature orchid, grown outdoors in Pacifica, California\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Caucaea_phalaenopsis_2_1000px-128x96.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Caucaea_phalaenopsis_2_1000px-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Caucaea_phalaenopsis_2_1000px-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Caucaea_phalaenopsis_2_1000px.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Masdevallia_veitchiana_Sheryll_1_1000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47543 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Masdevallia_veitchiana_Sheryll_1_1000px-96x128.jpg\" alt=\"Masdevallia veitchiana 'Sheryll', orchid species flower, orange and purple flower, Gallo Gallo, waqanki, grown outdoors in Pacifica, California\" width=\"96\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Masdevallia_veitchiana_Sheryll_1_1000px-96x128.jpg 96w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Masdevallia_veitchiana_Sheryll_1_1000px-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Masdevallia_veitchiana_Sheryll_1_1000px.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Masdevallia_veitchiana_Sheryll_2_1000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47544 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Masdevallia_veitchiana_Sheryll_2_1000px-96x128.jpg\" alt=\"Masdevallia veitchiana 'Sheryll', close-up of orchid species flower, orange and purple flower, Gallo Gallo, waqanki, grown outdoors in Pacifica, California\" width=\"96\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Masdevallia_veitchiana_Sheryll_2_1000px-96x128.jpg 96w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Masdevallia_veitchiana_Sheryll_2_1000px-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Masdevallia_veitchiana_Sheryll_2_1000px.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cochlioda_vulcanica_1_1000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47538 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cochlioda_vulcanica_1_1000px-128x96.jpg\" alt=\"Cochlioda vulcanica, orchid species flowers, miniature orchid, grown outdoors in Pacifica, California\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cochlioda_vulcanica_1_1000px-128x96.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cochlioda_vulcanica_1_1000px-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cochlioda_vulcanica_1_1000px-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cochlioda_vulcanica_1_1000px.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cymbidium_hybrid_1_1000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47539 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cymbidium_hybrid_1_1000px-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"Cymbidium flowers, orchid hybrid flowers, grown outdoors in Pacifica, California\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cymbidium_hybrid_1_1000px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cymbidium_hybrid_1_1000px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cymbidium_hybrid_1_1000px-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cymbidium_hybrid_1_1000px.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Celebrate today&#8217;s solstice with orchids from our garden. All these photos are from this autumn. The season changes with some blooms already fallen, but others still going strong. As the days start to lengthen after the winter solstice, new cycles of growth will begin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cymbidium_hybrid_2_1000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47540 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cymbidium_hybrid_2_1000px-128x77.jpg\" alt=\"Cymbidium flowers, orchid hybrid flowers, grown outdoors in Pacifica, California\" width=\"128\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cymbidium_hybrid_2_1000px-128x77.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cymbidium_hybrid_2_1000px-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cymbidium_hybrid_2_1000px-768x461.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cymbidium_hybrid_2_1000px.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Laelia_gouldiana_1_1000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47541 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Laelia_gouldiana_1_1000px-128x96.jpg\" alt=\"Laelia gouldiana, orchid species flower, purple flower, grown outdoors in Pacifica, California\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Laelia_gouldiana_1_1000px-128x96.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Laelia_gouldiana_1_1000px-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Laelia_gouldiana_1_1000px-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Laelia_gouldiana_1_1000px.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Laelia_gouldiana_2_1000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47542 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Laelia_gouldiana_2_1000px-96x128.jpg\" alt=\"Laelia gouldiana, orchid species flowers, purple flowers, grown outdoors in Pacifica, California\" width=\"96\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Laelia_gouldiana_2_1000px-96x128.jpg 96w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Laelia_gouldiana_2_1000px-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Laelia_gouldiana_2_1000px.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Arpophyllum_giganteum_subsp_alpinum_1_1000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47535 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Arpophyllum_giganteum_subsp_alpinum_1_1000px-96x128.jpg\" alt=\"Arpophyllum giganteum subsp. alpinum, orchid species flowers, miniature orchid, grown outdoors in Pacifica, California\" width=\"96\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Arpophyllum_giganteum_subsp_alpinum_1_1000px-96x128.jpg 96w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Arpophyllum_giganteum_subsp_alpinum_1_1000px-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Arpophyllum_giganteum_subsp_alpinum_1_1000px.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Pleurothallis_palliolata_1_1000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47545 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Pleurothallis_palliolata_1_1000px-128x96.jpg\" alt=\"Pleurothallis palliolata, orchid species flowers, miniature orchid, grown outdoors in Pacifica, California\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Pleurothallis_palliolata_1_1000px-128x96.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Pleurothallis_palliolata_1_1000px-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Pleurothallis_palliolata_1_1000px-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Pleurothallis_palliolata_1_1000px.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Pleurothallis_palliolata_2_1000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47546 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Pleurothallis_palliolata_2_1000px-96x128.jpg\" alt=\"Pleurothallis palliolata, orchid species flower, miniature orchid, grown outdoors in Pacifica, California\" width=\"96\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Pleurothallis_palliolata_2_1000px-96x128.jpg 96w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Pleurothallis_palliolata_2_1000px-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Pleurothallis_palliolata_2_1000px.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve highlighted most of these orchids in past posts (although I&#8217;ve realized that I&#8217;ve never done a post about my old <em>Pleurothallis palliolata<\/em>, with flowers that resemble strange, striped clams, in the last two photos.) Check out the previous posts below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/27\/a-sweet-little-caucaea-orchid\/\">A Sweet Little Caucaea Orchid<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/07\/a-legendary-masdevallia-orchid\/\">A Legendary Masdevallia Orchid<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/14\/a-very-reliable-cochlioda-orchid\/\">A Very Reliable Cochlioda Orchid<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/17\/a-big-season-for-cymbidium-orchids\/\">A Big Season for Cymbidium Orchids<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/29\/a-beautiful-laelia-orchid-species\/\">A Beautiful Laelia Orchid Species<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/27\/a-very-different-orchid-subspecies\/\">A Very Different Orchid Subspecies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate today&#8217;s solstice with orchids from our garden. All these photos are from this autumn. The season changes with some blooms already fallen, but others still going strong. As the days start to lengthen after the winter solstice, new cycles of growth will begin. I&#8217;ve highlighted most of these orchids in past posts (although I&#8217;ve [&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":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47532","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=47532"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47622,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47532\/revisions\/47622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}