{"id":24301,"date":"2018-07-28T16:39:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T23:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24301"},"modified":"2018-07-28T16:39:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T23:39:05","slug":"past-prime-orchid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24301","title":{"rendered":"Past-prime orchid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I attempt to post a picture that shows something at its peak of perfection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am willing to make an exception. It is, after all, the Giant Helleborine. This flower is one of our local wild orchids, but one that I have not managed to see for eight years. Yesterday, I was told of hundreds of them having bloomed a week ago along the lakeshore. So today, I headed out to see them. They were there, as claimed, but were now past their prime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ah well, it is the Giant Helleborine, I now know where to look for it next year.<\/p>\n<p>These are a few of the many Giant Helleborines that were spotted along the lakeshore.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24303\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gianthelliborine180728as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the flowers looked a tad bedraggled.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24302\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gianthelliborine180728bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a reference, I include a shot I took in 2010. Maybe next year, I can capture this orchid again.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3164\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gianthelleborine100716as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Normally, I attempt to post a picture that shows something at its peak of perfection.\u00a0 I am willing to make an exception. It is, after all, the Giant Helleborine. This flower is one of our local wild orchids, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24301\">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-24301","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\/24301","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=24301"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24314,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24301\/revisions\/24314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}