{"id":863,"date":"2010-06-19T10:25:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T18:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=863"},"modified":"2010-08-07T11:29:02","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T19:29:02","slug":"garden-conservancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/19\/garden-conservancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Conservancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does the infamous prison at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alcatraz\" target=\"_blank\">Alcatraz<\/a> have to do with conservation? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenconservancy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Garden Conservancy<\/a> is a non-profit organization that helps to preserve important gardens, including the ones around the former prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Founded in  1989, the Garden Conservancy has helped Alcatraz and more than 90 gardens in the USA to keep growing. Alcatraz Island is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/05\/14\/HOU31D990C.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">its exceptional gardens are becoming as popular as the historic prison itself<\/a>. Other conservation projects include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruthbancroftgarden.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Ruth Bancroft Garden<\/a> in Walnut Creek, California, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwoodgardens.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greenwood Gardens<\/a> in Short Hills, New Jersey, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fryarstopiaries.com\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">the Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden<\/a> in Bishopville, South Carolina. In addition to preservation projects, the Garden Conservancy sponsors annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenconservancy.org\/opendays\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Days<\/a> programs at hundreds of private gardens across the country, many of which are not otherwise open to the public. With horticultural and financial support, the Garden Conservancy is saving important botanical landmarks, and helping outstanding gardens to survive and thrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does the infamous prison at Alcatraz have to do with conservation? The Garden Conservancy is a non-profit organization that helps to preserve important gardens, including the ones around the former prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Founded in 1989, the Garden Conservancy has helped Alcatraz and more than 90 gardens in the [&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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}