{"id":9841,"date":"2011-09-23T17:18:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T01:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=9841"},"modified":"2012-04-30T22:06:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T06:06:10","slug":"more-orchids-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/23\/more-orchids-in-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"More Orchids in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

To celebrate today’s solstice, I have more photos from last weekend’s Orchids in the Park<\/a>, along with a few non-orchid shots from Golden Gate Park<\/a>. Starting outdoors, end of summer delights included a fruit-laden pink passionflower and a working 1914 carousel at the Children\u2019s Playground<\/a>. The third photo shows part of the living roof<\/a> at the Academy of Sciences<\/a> in the foreground, and the top of the de Young Museum<\/a> in the background.<\/p>\n

\"Pink<\/a>\"Carousel<\/a>\"View<\/a><\/p>\n

Inside at Orchids in the Park, the colors began with a blue Dendrobium<\/a> hybrid, lighter in color than its parent species<\/a>. Bright colors continued with a pair of Cattleya<\/a> hybrids which seemed to be inverses of one another. Both had wonderful scents.<\/p>\n

\"Blue<\/a>\"Cattleya<\/a>\"Cattleya<\/a><\/p>\n

A tiny Stelis featured mini flowers, each smaller than the letter “o” on my keyboard, and an elegant Phrag sported petals that drooped down longer than my arms. Rich red Vanda<\/a> blooms fell into the large flower category, too. A big white Paph<\/a> captured my attention, but so did the brilliant purple of a mini Phal<\/a>. Finally, a multicolored hybrid Howeara displayed an abundance of small charms.<\/p>\n

\"Close<\/a>\"Phrag<\/a>\"Vanda<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Lady<\/a>\"Mini<\/a>\"Howeara<\/a><\/p>\n

Whether you’re in the northern half of the planet entering autumn, or the southern half starting spring, orchids offer lots of reasons to celebrate the change of season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To celebrate today’s solstice, I have more photos from last weekend’s Orchids in the Park, along with a few non-orchid shots from Golden Gate Park. Starting outdoors, end of summer delights included a fruit-laden pink passionflower and a working 1914 carousel at the Children\u2019s Playground. The third photo shows part of the living roof at […]<\/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":[11,12,27,19,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-fragrant-orchids","category-growing-orchids-in-san-francisco","category-mini-orchids","category-misc","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841","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=9841"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11864,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841\/revisions\/11864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}