{"id":6783,"date":"2011-02-06T22:02:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T06:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2011-03-31T20:41:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T04:41:29","slug":"tropical-extravaganza-at-kew-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/06\/tropical-extravaganza-at-kew-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Extravaganza at Kew Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kew Gardens is hosting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kew.org\/visit-kew-gardens\/tropical-extravaganza\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Tropical Extravaganza<\/a>, billed as &#8220;London&#8217;s most colourful festival.&#8221; From February 5 &#8211; March 6, Kew showcases a rainforest display with tropical plants, including thousands of orchids, in the Princess of Wales Conservatory.<\/p>\n<p>With the planet&#8217;s largest plant collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kew.org\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Botanic Gardens Kew<\/a> has long been the center of the botanical world. It became <a href=\"http:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/1084\/\" target=\"_blank\">a UNESCO World Heritage Site<\/a> in 2003, and deserves a visit at any opportunity. The Tropical Extravaganza festival provides a welcome escape from winter, and presents brilliant colors and intoxicating floral perfumes. If you can&#8217;t make it to London, you can still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kew.org\/visit-kew-gardens\/tropical-extravaganza\/main-display\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">enjoy some of Kew&#8217;s floral beauty online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kew Gardens is hosting a Tropical Extravaganza, billed as &#8220;London&#8217;s most colourful festival.&#8221; From February 5 &#8211; March 6, Kew showcases a rainforest display with tropical plants, including thousands of orchids, in the Princess of Wales Conservatory. With the planet&#8217;s largest plant collection, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew has long been the center of the botanical [&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":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783","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=6783"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7802,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions\/7802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}