{"id":903,"date":"2009-09-29T08:10:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T16:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=903"},"modified":"2010-06-30T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T04:52:08","slug":"up-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/29\/up-a-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Up A Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For orchid lovers who live in tropical areas like Hawaii, and subtropical areas like Florida or the California Coast, attaching orchids to a tree can be a fascinating way to see how they really grow. While it&#8217;s true that &#8220;Mother Nature intended for orchids to grow in trees,&#8221; there are some pitfalls to tying a treasured plant to a branch. Master Gardener Christine Winter Juneau explains the ups and downs of going natural <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/features\/your-home\/sfl-hgjuneau-garden-column-h0925sbsep25,0,2768783.column\">in an article on SunSentinel.com<\/a>. If you live in a suitable climate and want to try, her article will get you started with the basics. She also suggests creative alternatives and half-measures that can provide some of that air-plant experience. If you want to get serious, though, you need to read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0881926590?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=abouorch-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0881926590\">Growing Orchids in Your Garden<\/a><\/em> by Robert Friend, which gives  helpful and thorough info on growing orchids up a tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For orchid lovers who live in tropical areas like Hawaii, and subtropical areas like Florida or the California Coast, attaching orchids to a tree can be a fascinating way to see how they really grow. While it&#8217;s true that &#8220;Mother Nature intended for orchids to grow in trees,&#8221; there are some pitfalls to tying a [&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":[14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}