weekend flower festivals<\/a> include lotuses, Lemon lilies and lavender. The lotus flower is NOT a water lily, contrary to popular belief. If you don’t know that, go check it out at two Lotus Festivals this weekend. Returning after several years “off” is the Los Angeles Lotus Festival\u00a0at\u00a0Echo Park Lake\u00a0July 12-13, 2014.\u00a0The 34th Lotus Festival, complete with arts, crafts and food from host country the Philippines, is a colorful cultural event that includes lotus viewing. \u00a0Also on the same weekend\u00a0(July 12) in Santa Barbara’s Lotusland is LotusFest, a celebration of the spectacular flower in peak bloom during\u00a0July. Guests\u00a0can\u00a0view these uniquely beautiful flowers while enjoying\u00a0wine tasting from Santa Barbara County\u2019s premier vintners, \u00a0hors d\u2019oeuvres, live music\u00a0and more! Lotus flowers open during the day and close at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0weekend flower festivals include lotuses, Lemon lilies and lavender. The lotus flower is NOT a water lily, contrary to popular belief. If you don’t know that, go check it out at two Lotus Festivals this weekend. Returning after several years “off” is the Los Angeles Lotus Festival\u00a0at\u00a0Echo Park Lake\u00a0July 12-13, 2014.\u00a0The 34th Lotus Festival, complete […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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