{"id":7506,"date":"2010-05-26T00:23:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T07:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7506"},"modified":"2011-10-17T05:28:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T12:28:49","slug":"orchids-to-write-home-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/orchids-to-write-home-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchids to Write Home About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Paphiopedium \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4395143990\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4034\/4395143990_80d0e72f50.jpg\" alt=\"Paphiopedium\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Orchids come in all shapes, sizes and colours and these pictures are just a couple worth writing home about.<br \/>\nIn a well illustrated book by <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/house-greenhouse-plants\/orchids-to-write-home-about\/\">Harold Koopowitz<\/a> packed with more than 300 color photos and paintings the slipper orchids are given pride of place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/088192864X\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/088192864X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Orchids cover a wide range of 25,000 species and 100,000 cultivars and hybrids. So it may be sensible to specialise and that is what <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/house-greenhouse-plants\/orchids-to-write-home-about\/\">HK&#8217;s<\/a> book sets out to do.<\/p>\n<p>My lack of excellence when growing Orchids is nothing to write home about so I will save it for the experts.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Orchids  \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4394352201\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4072\/4394352201_cec88c0805.jpg\" alt=\"Orchids \" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kew \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4406702776\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2748\/4406702776_6c0bd91ec1.jpg\" alt=\"Kew 180\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/products\/?p=151\">Read about Orchid Compost<\/a> on Gardeners Products<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchids come in all shapes, sizes and colours and these pictures are just a couple worth writing home about. In a well illustrated book by Harold Koopowitz packed with more than 300 color photos and paintings the slipper orchids are given pride of place. Orchids cover a wide range of 25,000 species and 100,000 cultivars and hybrids. So it may be sensible to specialise and that is what HK&#8217;s book sets out to do. My lack of excellence when growing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/orchids-to-write-home-about\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-greenhouse-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}