{"id":20804,"date":"2017-06-08T07:14:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20804"},"modified":"2017-06-08T07:14:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:14:08","slug":"wildflower-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20804","title":{"rendered":"Wildflower walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A forest walk\u00a0revealed wildflowers.<\/p>\n<p>The Tiger Lily likes sunshine and so favours clearings in the forest.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20805\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/tigerlilly170607s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also a member of the lily family, the Queen&#8217;s Cup favours the dappled sunlight of moist woodlands and was strewn across the forest floor in the hundreds.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20806\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/queenscup170607s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Far more picky than the two lilies in its choice of habitat is the Mountain Lady&#8217;s Slipper. This wild orchid seems to favour deep-forest slopes\u00a0where the soil has\u00a0been made alkaline by seepage. Although it is possibly found in a number of locations around the Lake, I know of only two, and each of them may have as few as\u00a0a half-dozen flowers.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20807\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mountainladysslipper170607s3.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A forest walk\u00a0revealed wildflowers. The Tiger Lily likes sunshine and so favours clearings in the forest. Also a member of the lily family, the Queen&#8217;s Cup favours the dappled sunlight of moist woodlands and was strewn across the forest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20804\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20810,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20804\/revisions\/20810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}