{"id":21297,"date":"2012-03-21T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=21297"},"modified":"2012-03-20T09:14:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T13:14:38","slug":"an-orchids-accompaniment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/03\/exhibit-news\/an-orchids-accompaniment\/","title":{"rendered":"An Orchid&#8217;s Accompaniment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Patrick-Blanc-Orchid-Show.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"21309\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/03\/exhibit-news\/an-orchids-accompaniment\/attachment\/patrick-blanc-orchid-show\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Patrick-Blanc-Orchid-Show.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1839\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1330682922&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;65&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Patrick Blanc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Patrick-Blanc-Orchid-Show-300x275.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Patrick-Blanc-Orchid-Show-1024x941.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-21309\" title=\"Patrick Blanc\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Patrick-Blanc-Orchid-Show-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Patrick-Blanc-Orchid-Show-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Patrick-Blanc-Orchid-Show-1024x941.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Patrick-Blanc-Orchid-Show.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Patrick Blanc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Blanc<\/a>&#8216;s travels and expertise have taught him that no one plant can convey the true beauty of a vertical wall&#8211;the living art, as Francisca Coelho, our VP for Glasshouses and Exhibitions explains, can&#8217;t realize its full potential on the shoulders of an individual flower. That&#8217;s why this year&#8217;s <a title=\"The Orchid Show\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/exhibitions\/2012\/orchid-show\/\"><em>Orchid Show<\/em><\/a> is not only about spotlighting these captivating tropical blooms, but about complementing their place in one of our most complex and beautiful presentations of the last decade!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBelow, the French botanist and designer himself joins our <a title=\"The New York Botanical Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\">NYBG<\/a> experts in explaining just how important biodiversity is to making the <em>Orchid Show<\/em>&#8211;as well as horticulture and environmental awareness on the whole&#8211;a runaway success!<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"height: 346px; width: 567px;\" width=\"567\" height=\"346\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UUQOHsLGBb4?version=3&amp;feature=player_detailpage\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<hr width=\"350\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><a title=\"The Orchid Show\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/exhibitions\/2012\/orchid-show\/\">The Orchid Show<\/a> continues from now until April 22. Be sure to catch up on the many lectures, workshops, and exciting evening activities we&#8217;ll be holding as well. <a title=\"NYBG Tickets\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/visit\/tickets.php\">Get your tickets here<\/a>!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The master designer himself, Patrick Blanc, joins NYBG experts in explaining just what it is that makes this year&#8217;s Orchid Show so unique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":21309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1282,3,165],"tags":[4637,4671,569,2138],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Patrick-Blanc-Orchid-Show.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-5xv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21297"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21325,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21297\/revisions\/21325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}