{"id":129,"date":"2016-04-22T17:43:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T14:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imatratours.fi\/\/?p=129"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:52:16","slug":"floratourfin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imatratours.fi\/en\/floratourfin\/","title":{"rendered":"Flora Tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Karelia is famous for its endemic species &#8211; among them such flowers like beautiful and very rare arctic violet (spring pasqueflower, lady of the snows) in Latin <em>Pulsatilla Vernalis<\/em>. Lady of the snows blossoms very early in the spring. It is highly endangered and you are not allowed to pick them. Arctic violet is the county flower of South Karelia. Another Ice Age relict is the sand pink <em>Dianthus arenarius<\/em> which blossoms in July. South Karelia has a quite many private gardens that are open for visitors, too. Please check the availability of the tour since the growing period varies from year to year. Our tour guide meets you at your hotel and takes you to the woods to see these rarities. You can either drive your own car or we can arrange the transfers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small group guided tours of South Karelia gardens and wilderness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imatratours.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imatratours.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imatratours.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatratours.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatratours.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/imatratours.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/imatratours.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatratours.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imatratours.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatratours.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatratours.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}