Starting this month I will be adding some photos from the show table. Please bear with me as we hone our photography skills. As the months go on, the pictures should get better. As always, the list of winning Plants for the month will be available in the monthly newsletter
Entries from November 2007
Orchids of Peru, April 5–14, 2008
November 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Visit the Manu Cloud Forest at Wayqechas, the Citadel at Machu Picchu and Nurseries in Lima. Price: From $3,490 without international airfare. Deposit due: January 15 2008. For more information visit the ACEER website or email Dr. Roger Mustalish or Ms. Mary Clark.
John Salventi from Parkside Orchids will be one of the Instructors/Guest Lecturers on this trip. Your newsletter editor has been to this location (without the benefit of the orchid walks, lectures, etc) and can vouch that it is a trip of a lifetime. If you are in good physical condition and have the $$$’s, give this opportunity serious consideration.
Categories: Events · Orchid Culture · Travel
Philadelphia Flower Show to “JAZZ IT UP!”
November 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment
The Philadelphia Flower Show is set for March 2 – 9, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. This year’s theme is the romance of New Orleans and will include displays and booths from several area orchid growers.
Categories: Events · Growers & Supplies · Travel
Nov. 2007 meeting
November 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Thursday, Nov. 15th, 2007, 7:30 pm
Phragmipedium kovachii – A trek through the jungle to the habitat site of kovachii… by Glen Decker
Our speaker for November was Glen Decker. Glen began growing orchids at the age of 15 and holds the degree of Associate in Applied Science in Ornamental Horticulture. Glen is presently the owner of Piping Rock Orchids in Galway, New York. He was the previous chair of the American Orchid Society’s Publications Committee and is presently a Director of the Orchid Digest Corporation. Glen has won numerous AOS awards, including the Butterworth Prize, Nax Trophy, WW Wilson Award and the Carlyle A. Luer Award. He has appeared in Martha Stewart’s Better Living Magazine and on a PBS TV special “Orchid Delirium”. He recently rewrote the Slipper section of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s “The Best Orchids for Indoors” and was the technical editor for the “Orchids for Dummies” book.
Glen and Phragipedium kovachii are the subject of the cover article for this months’s Orchid Magazine. In 2001, the discovery of this slipper orchid in Peru captured the imaginations of orchid enthusiasts worldwide. Glen made it his goal to successfully cultivate and hybridize this awesome orchid.
Categories: Meetings
November Newsletter
November 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment
The November 2007 BCOS Newsletter is now available for download.
Categories: Newsletters
