{"id":31889,"date":"2022-06-09T16:02:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T23:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31889"},"modified":"2022-06-09T16:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T23:04:53","slug":"two-wild-orchids-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31889","title":{"rendered":"Two wild orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have a number of wild orchids, but they grow at different times. The fairy slipper has come and gone, but the lady&#8217;s slipper presented itself today.  Although I said there were two wild orchids, the fairy slipper comes in two varieties, eastern and western, and we get both.<\/p>\n<p>Orchids are easily distinguished from other flowers by their bilateral symmetry and (usually) one highly modified petal.<\/p>\n<p>The fairy slipper, which proliferates in May comes in two varieties, eastern and western. The eastern which comes first has (among its features) yellow fake stamens.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31891\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/fairyslipper220508as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The western fairy slipper has white fake stamens. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31890\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/fairyslipper220508bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The lady&#8217;s slipper is with us at the moment.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31892\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ladysslipper220609s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We have a number of wild orchids, but they grow at different times. The fairy slipper has come and gone, but the lady&#8217;s slipper presented itself today. Although I said there were two wild orchids, the fairy slipper comes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31889\">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-31889","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\/31889","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=31889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31894,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31889\/revisions\/31894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}