{"id":9656,"date":"2011-09-10T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T00:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=9656"},"modified":"2012-02-15T12:28:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T20:28:29","slug":"orchids-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/10\/orchids-in-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchids in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchidsanfrancisco.org\/orchidsinthepark.html\" target=\"_blank\">Orchids in the Park<\/a> is &#8220;two days of orchids and fun.&#8221; It&#8217;s a sale and exhibition from the San Francisco Orchid Society, coming Sept. 17-18 to <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&amp;sugexp=gsis,i18n%3Dtrue&amp;cp=68&amp;gs_id=1w&amp;xhr=t&amp;qe=Q291bnR5IEZhaXIgQnVpbGRpbmcgaW4gR29sZGVuIEdhdGUgUGFyaywgOXRoIEF2ZS4gJiBMaW5jb2xuLCBzZiwgY2E&amp;qesig=SxaUwcfYlu_VnWHMky0DjA&amp;pkc=AFgZ2tlELmj26FbTSQQLGW7RvOeD72LlO8r-YBihmfQMw-j55QLiJFRmNvNv0DF666L1Arbeagoozm0fZPmQpo2WSXlExHHNMw&amp;pq=county+fair+building+in+golden+gate+park,+9th+ave.+%26+lincoln&amp;safe=off&amp;biw=1680&amp;bih=905&amp;gs_upl=&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=County+Fair+Building+in+Golden+Gate+Park,+9th+Ave.+%26+Lincoln,+sf,+ca&amp;fb=1&amp;gl=us&amp;hq=County+Fair+Building&amp;hnear=0x8085875ce06d6367:0x823806ce9316c960,Lincoln+Way+%26+9th+Ave,+San+Francisco,+CA+94122&amp;cid=0,0,7449406806878644719&amp;ei=VNxrTo_XHZPdiALx59HYCA&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=local_result&amp;ct=image&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CAQQ_BI\" target=\"_blank\">the County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park, 9th Ave. &amp; Lincoln Way<\/a>. This is a junior version of the enormous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/13\/pacific-orchid-expo-2011\/\">Pacific Orchid Expo<\/a> held earlier in the year.\u00a0 Orchids in the Park features 20 vendors, along with orchid demos, lectures, and raffles. These photos from last year&#8217;s event will whet your appetite:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Prosthechea_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9723\" title=\"Prosthechea flower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Prosthechea_800px-96x128.jpg\" alt=\"Prosthechea flower\" width=\"96\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Prosthechea_800px-96x128.jpg 96w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Prosthechea_800px-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Prosthechea_800px.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cymbidium_640px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9725\" title=\"Cymbidium flowers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cymbidium_640px-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"Cymbidium flowers\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cymbidium_640px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cymbidium_640px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cymbidium_640px.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bulbophyllum_makoyanum_640px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9724\" title=\"Bulbophyllum flowers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bulbophyllum_makoyanum_640px-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"Bulbophyllum flowers\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bulbophyllum_makoyanum_640px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bulbophyllum_makoyanum_640px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bulbophyllum_makoyanum_640px.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>SFGate<\/em> highlights Orchids in the Park in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/09\/07\/HOG91KTPNQ.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Exceptionally pretty blue orchid stands out.&#8221;<\/a> The article spotlights a marvelous blue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/dendrobium.html\">Dendrobium<\/a>, which will be one of many varieties for sale at the event. It&#8217;s a naturally blue orchid, unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/24\/blue-phals\/\">the artificial blue Phals in the news a few months ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchids in the Park is &#8220;two days of orchids and fun.&#8221; It&#8217;s a sale and exhibition from the San Francisco Orchid Society, coming Sept. 17-18 to the County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park, 9th Ave. &amp; Lincoln Way. This is a junior version of the enormous Pacific Orchid Expo held earlier in the year.\u00a0 [&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":[11,22,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-in-the-news","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656","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=9656"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9751,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions\/9751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}