{"id":4328,"date":"2016-07-30T12:58:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T17:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4328"},"modified":"2016-07-30T12:58:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T17:58:20","slug":"atlanta-botanical-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/07\/30\/atlanta-botanical-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Botanical Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"

On our vacation we visited the\u00a0Atlanta Botanical Gardens<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (ABG<\/strong><\/em>). Omitting mention of our actual travel to ABG<\/strong><\/em> and back to the hotel, we had a very good time and would happily recommend it to Atlanta-traveling gardeners. ABG<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0has a number of different areas, from tropics to high altitudes to plants native to the Atlanta area. We’ll start with carnivorous pitcher plants<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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As we can see, their pitchers are filled with a fluid which traps and digests the unfortunate insects which slip on the edge of the pitcher. Yes, we did wonder if they had to be specially fed by ABG<\/strong><\/em> staff, or if Atlanta insect life was sufficient to the job, but we did not find out. These were found, IIRC, in the tropics part of the displays. In the same area we found this charming orchid:<\/p>\n

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Three blooms on one orchid, but I fear the photo is a trifle blurry. This was also found in the tropics, I believe:<\/p>\n

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Charming, but we do not recall the name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On our vacation we visited the\u00a0Atlanta Botanical Gardens (ABG). Omitting mention of our actual travel to ABG and back to the hotel, we had a very good time and would happily recommend it to Atlanta-traveling gardeners. ABG\u00a0has a number of different areas, from tropics to high altitudes to plants native \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4332,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}