{"id":5221,"date":"2012-04-16T12:39:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=5221"},"modified":"2012-04-16T12:59:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:59:57","slug":"porterville-iris-festival-so-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/porterville-iris-festival-so-purple\/","title":{"rendered":"Porterville Iris Festival &#8211; So Purple!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/portir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On<strong> Saturday, April 28, 2012<\/strong>, the 15th Annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/porterville-iris-festival.html\">Porterville Iris Festival<\/a> Parade marches through downtown Porterville, launching a day filled with foods, entertainment and the star of the show, the Purple Iris.\u00a0 Free shuttle service is provided\u00a0 from downtown Porterville to Sutton&#8217;s Iris Garden where guests are dazzled with brilliant flowers guaranteed to excite!\u00a0 Iris Festival info, call:\u00a0 (559) 784-7502, http:\/\/irisfestival.porterville.com<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Shown is the 2012 &#8220;Blueberry Trail&#8221; Iris introduced at Sutton&#8217;s Iris Garden (suttoniris.com) in Porterville. Home to California&#8217;s largest (80 acre) commercial Iris nursery, visitors can stroll at their leisure through 3 acre display gardens open April 1-30, 2012, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.<strong> Admission and parking are free!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>April\u00a0 flower festivals include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/lancaster-poppy-festival.html\">Lancaster Poppy Festival<\/a> April 21-22, 2012<\/li>\n<li>Sebastopol Apple Blossom Festival April 21-22 (sebastopol.org)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-francisco-cherry-blossom-festival.html\">Cherry Blossom Festival<\/a> in San Francisco April 21-22<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, April 28, 2012, the 15th Annual Porterville Iris Festival Parade marches through downtown Porterville, launching a day filled with foods, entertainment and the star of the show, the Purple Iris.\u00a0 Free shuttle service is provided\u00a0 from downtown Porterville to Sutton&#8217;s Iris Garden where guests are dazzled with brilliant flowers guaranteed to excite!\u00a0 Iris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221"}],"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=5221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}