{"id":8989,"date":"2011-06-21T17:02:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T01:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=8989"},"modified":"2013-03-14T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T23:52:18","slug":"summertime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/21\/summertime\/","title":{"rendered":"Summertime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With late spring rains followed by warm temps, our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/urban-garden\/\">urban garden<\/a> is offering lots of blooms for today&#8217;s solstice.\u00a0 The flowers range from a small, pastel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/epidendrum.html\">Epidendrum<\/a> to an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epiphyllum\" target=\"_blank\">Orchid Cactus<\/a> with brilliant red blossoms as big as dinner plates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Epidendrum_Wedding_Valley_Sakura-Komachi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8993\" title=\"Epidendrum hybrid\" alt=\"Epidendrum hybrid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Epidendrum_Wedding_Valley_Sakura-Komachi-128x128.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Epidendrum_Wedding_Valley_Sakura-Komachi-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Epidendrum_Wedding_Valley_Sakura-Komachi-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Epidendrum_Wedding_Valley_Sakura-Komachi.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Epiphyllum_flower_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8994\" title=\"Orchid cactus flower\" alt=\"Orchid cactus flower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Epiphyllum_flower_800px-128x95.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Epiphyllum_flower_800px-128x95.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Epiphyllum_flower_800px-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Epiphyllum_flower_800px.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Iris_640px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8995\" title=\"Iris\" alt=\"Iris\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Iris_640px-128x96.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Iris_640px-128x96.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Iris_640px-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Iris_640px.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fittingly for the first day of summer, we&#8217;re having a heat wave. I&#8217;ve got my work cut out for me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/water.html\">watering<\/a> and trying to keep the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/humidity.html\">humidity<\/a> up for the orchids. The season&#8217;s bounty will be easier to enjoy if the fog returns tomorrow as predicted. It promises to be a colorful summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Yellow_rose_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8991\" title=\"Yellow rose with water drops\" alt=\"Yellow rose with water drops\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Yellow_rose_800px-128x96.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Yellow_rose_800px-128x96.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Yellow_rose_800px-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Yellow_rose_800px.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Alyogyne_huegelii_640px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8992\" title=\"Lilac Hibiscus\" alt=\"Lilac Hibiscus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Alyogyne_huegelii_640px-128x128.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Alyogyne_huegelii_640px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Alyogyne_huegelii_640px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Alyogyne_huegelii_640px.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Pink_clover_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8996\" title=\"Pink clover\" alt=\"Pink clover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Pink_clover_800px-96x128.jpg\" width=\"96\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Pink_clover_800px-96x128.jpg 96w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Pink_clover_800px-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Pink_clover_800px.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With late spring rains followed by warm temps, our urban garden is offering lots of blooms for today&#8217;s solstice.\u00a0 The flowers range from a small, pastel Epidendrum to an Orchid Cactus with brilliant red blossoms as big as dinner plates. Fittingly for the first day of summer, we&#8217;re having a heat wave. I&#8217;ve got my [&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":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8989","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\/8989","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=8989"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9015,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989\/revisions\/9015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}