{"id":5506,"date":"2010-11-10T22:09:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T06:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=5506"},"modified":"2012-04-18T20:34:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T04:34:15","slug":"oakland-orchid-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/10\/oakland-orchid-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Orchid Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave and I enjoyed some wonderful blooms and delicious scents in Oakland<\/a> last weekend. The Orchid Society of California<\/a> has been around since 1937, and they know how to put on a show. Just to start, here’s a brilliant orange Epidendrum<\/a>, a fuzzy yellow Paph<\/a>, and a sweet smelling Cattleya<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Epidendrum<\/a>\"Paphiopedilum<\/a>\"Cattleya<\/a><\/p>\n

Even though it’s nearby, just across the bay, Oakland has a warmer climate than San Francisco. Warm growing Miltoniopsis<\/a>, Trichoglottis, and Epidendrum<\/a> would have a tougher time in our cool coastal breezes. They certainly seem happy here.<\/p>\n

\"Miltoniopsis<\/a>\"Trichoglottis<\/a>\"Epidendrum<\/a><\/p>\n

We also found a fascinating Dracula<\/a>, and a few unusual specimens which resemble strange sea creatures more than orchids.<\/p>\n

\"Dracula<\/a>\"Angraecum<\/a>\"Encyclia<\/a><\/p>\n

Besides the gorgeous orchids, we also took pictures of some historic Oakland architecture. The Paramount Theater and I. Magnin Building have wonderful Art Deco designs. From the final photo, it’s easy to see why the Cathedral Building was once called the Wedding Cake Building.<\/p>\n

\"Paramount<\/a>\"I.<\/a>\"Cathedral<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave and I enjoyed some wonderful blooms and delicious scents in Oakland last weekend. The Orchid Society of California has been around since 1937, and they know how to put on a show. Just to start, here’s a brilliant orange Epidendrum, a fuzzy yellow Paph, and a sweet smelling Cattleya. Even though it’s nearby, just […]<\/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":[11,12,27,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-fragrant-orchids","category-growing-orchids-in-san-francisco","category-misc","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506","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=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":60,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11768,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions\/11768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}