{"id":841,"date":"2009-09-22T19:25:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T03:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=841"},"modified":"2010-05-02T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T00:58:11","slug":"autumnal-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/autumnal-equinox\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumnal Equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the equator to the poles, today the entire planet has 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness. As the seasons cycle on, our garden is still in full swing. We’re enjoying these sunflowers, passionflowers, and amaryllis. The amaryllis originally came from Dave’s garden in New Orleans, where it bloomed during the summer heat in July. With lots of warm days typical of California in September, it’s now blooming on a West Coast schedule.<\/p>\n

\"Sunflower\"<\/a>\"Passionflower\"<\/a>\"Summer<\/a><\/p>\n

Masses of blooms multiply the beauty in these groups of flowers. Clusters of Lantana, Iochroma, and Hesperanthes attract butterflies and hummingbirds into our urban garden.<\/p>\n

\"Lantana<\/a>\"Iochroma<\/a>\"Hesperanthes<\/a><\/p>\n

In the first shot below, Mediterranean hibiscus is a bumblebee favorite. You can see how they’ve knocked orange pollen onto the white petals. Next, the tiny Sweet Alyssum flowers give off a sweet scent, and lots of little seeds guarantee that this annual returns each year. Finally, the Epipactis seedpod I mentioned at the beginning of the summer<\/a> split open on a hot day. With thousands of microscopic seeds blown by the wind, a few may land in good spots and start to grow. Since this orchid is a San Francisco native, it’ll be right at home.<\/p>\n

\"Flower-of-an-Hour\"<\/a>\"Alyssum<\/a>\"Epipactis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the equator to the poles, today the entire planet has 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness. As the seasons cycle on, our garden is still in full swing. We’re enjoying these sunflowers, passionflowers, and amaryllis. The amaryllis originally came from Dave’s garden in New Orleans, where it bloomed during the summer […]<\/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":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-gardening","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3300,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}