{"id":50523,"date":"2026-03-20T08:32:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=50523"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:43:11","slug":"orchids-for-a-spring-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/20\/orchids-for-a-spring-heatwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchids for a Spring Heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Paphiopedilum<\/a>\"Cattleytonia<\/a>\"Stenorrhynchos<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cymbidium<\/a>\"Moth<\/a>\"Zygopetalum<\/a><\/p>\n

Like the rest of the US Southwest, the SF Bay Area is heading into the equinox today with a heatwave. High temperature records have been broken all week. For this first day of spring, here are more photos from the recent Pacific Orchid Expo<\/a>, when temperatures were reasonable.<\/p>\n

\"Masdevallia<\/a>\"Cattleya<\/a>\"Oncidium<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cymbidium<\/a>\"Masdevallia<\/a>\"Maxillaria<\/a><\/p>\n

The diversity of the orchid world is always on great display at San Francisco Orchid Society<\/a> shows, from big blooms to little blossoms, from rare species to the latest Phal hybrids<\/a>, and from vivid color mash-ups to green flowers<\/a> which match the leaves. They’re some of nature’s most brilliant gems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like the rest of the US Southwest, the SF Bay Area is heading into the equinox today with a heatwave. High temperature records have been broken all week. For this first day of spring, here are more photos from the recent Pacific Orchid Expo, when temperatures were reasonable. The diversity of the orchid world is […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50523","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=50523"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50565,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50523\/revisions\/50565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}