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www.njorchids.org FEBRUARY 2018

The North Jersey Orchid Society NEWSLETTER — FEBRUARY 2018

The Official Publication of the North Jersey Orchid Society

Meet Dennis Whigham, PhD Senior Botanist, Smithsonian Environmental

Research Center

Founding Director, North American

Orchid Conservation Center

The ecology of plants has been Dennis Whigham’s pri-

mary interest and his research has resulted in journeys

through forests, fields and wetlands around the world.

Explorations have lead to studies of woodland herbs –

including orchids, vines, wetland species, invasive spe-

cies and studies of forests in the tropics, temperate and

boreal zones. In recent years, studies of interactions

between orchids and fungi have lead in new and exciting

directions. Whigham’s current research projects focus

on the role of wetlands associated with juvenile salmon

habitat in Alaska headwater streams; the rarest terrestrial

orchid in eastern North America; and an invasive wet-

land species that is rapidly expanding across the country.

His current passion is to establish the North American

Orchid Conservation Center (NAOCC), an initiative of

the Smithsonian and the United States Botanic Garden.

NAOCC’s mission is to secure the genetic diversity of

native orchids for future generations. The NAOCC

model for orchid conservation is based on public-private

collaborations and there are currently more than forty

collaborating organization distributed across the conti-

nent from Florida to Alaska.

Whigham obtained an undergraduate degree from Wa-

bash College and a Ph.D. from the University of North

Carolina. He joined the Smithsonian in 1977. Whigham

and his collaborators have published more than 250 arti-

cles in journals and books and he has co-edited 10

books.

One of the best periods Whigham had during his 40+

years at the Smithsonian was as a Visiting Scientist and

Special Professor in Utrecht University. During those

times, collaborations and friendships developed that

resulted in projects, co-authorships, and many enjoyable

times on both sides of the Atlantic.

OUR NEXT MEETING IS ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6TH

Another Great Show Everyone!

Our 51st Orchid Show and Sale was a tremendous success because of you! Our new exhibit, designed by Nate DePinto and built by Nate and Bill Stender, won the blue ribbon in its class. It was IMPRESSIVE and showcased over 90 of your plants. This year, we had about 1,000 people attend the show over the three days which is about 200 fewer than last year--Maybe the pouring rain on Friday kept people away? At least it wasn’t snow!

Last year we added parking and other outdoor signs to guide people from the parking structure to the venue. This year, we added indoor banners designed by Bill Stender and featuring a stunning photograph of his AOS Award of Merit winning Cynoches Richard Brandon ‘Mike’s Next’. If you haven’t seen it, we’ll have one set up at our next meeting.

Our NJOS volunteers made it all happen, from set-up, to clerking, to the Welcome desk and tear-down. See later in this Newsletter for a list of our wonderful volunteers. All the volunteers earned reward points which will translate to NJOS coupons in July.

We had lots of presence on social media, and Christopher Satch volun-teered to help us be even better next year! People posted real-time photos on Facebook and Instagram which got us some attention in the Orchid Community. The NJOS Facebook page has 2603 members several of whom joined because of the show. We also got new members joining right at the show! We had information about the show on several on-line calendars and then we were featured or mentioned in Healthy Living magazine, AAA New Jersey, and more. Bloom and Grow had planned to record a radio Podcast at the show, but it had to be postponed. So, we definitively generated some buzz.

Feedback from the judges, vendors and exhibitors is very positive – the biggest complaint being lack of working lights in Trayes Hall. Vendors were thrilled at the large volume of pre-orders. Thank you for that!

Mark your calendar for our 2019 Show which will be January 19-20, 2019 with load in on January 17 & 18 at Rutgers Douglass Student Center. (Fingers crossed that they don’t price us out of the venue as they are once again changing their pricing structure.) Many thanks to the Rut-gers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Department of Plant Biology for underwriting some of expenses and making Rutgers affordable for us.

Next up is the Deep Cut show which loads in on February 7. So bring your plants to the NJOS meeting on Tuesday February 6. We’ll gather them up and get them to Deep Cut and then back to you. We could also use some help setting up (Wed. Feb 7) and taking down our exhibit (Sun. Feb 11). And, be sure to visit the Deep Cut show Thursday February 8 through Sunday February 11 at the Dearborn Market, Holmdel NJ. I hope to see you there! Carrie


Our Volunteers Make It Happen Many thanks to our members who made this show a big success! Some of these folks are already at the Bronze or Silver levels of our reward program – Way to go! Just so you know, when both people in a membership volunteer, it’s double points. If you volunteered and you’re not on this list, please let Carrie Buchman ([email protected]) know so you get your points. Sheila Banks Trudy Bliesath Maureen Boyle Carrie & Tim Buchman Lisa Choplo Bart Costello Arlene Dascoli Nate DePinto Pat Freeland Mark Gaglioti Maurice & Carol Garvey Diane Gennaro Nancy Gerhardt Anita Gibaldi Julie Hallberg Bonnie Huff

Trudy Bliesath Carrie Buchman Lisa Choplo Bart Costello Pat Freeland Mark Gaglioti Anita Gibaldi Diane Gennaro Julie Hallberg

NJOS Exhibit Plant Contributors:

91 plants and 47 Ribbons

Lowell Jacobs Lori Jennex Patty Lee Sandra & Len Mackowiak Helen & Mike Oien John & Rae Paltiel Karen & Ken Perkins Christopher Satch Jane Schwocho Teresita Silva Sergey & Elena Skoropad Irwin Slotnick Bill & Lynne Stender John Sullivan Ralph Wahl Jeannie Yu

Lowell Jacobs Karen & Ken Perkins Jane Plaisted Ingrid Raschdorf Jane Schwocho Sergey & Elena Skoropad Bill Stender Ralph Wahl Jeannie Yu

Comparettia Macroplectron

‘Mon Cherri’ AM/CCM/AOS

Elena & Sergey Skoropad Maxilaria Variabilis, Bob Gluckin

Stelis Pusilla

Carrie Buchman

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The beginning of our new display, designed

by Nate DePinto and built by Nate and Bill

Stender with a little help from our friends.

NJOS Plants being checked in on Carrie’s computer

program and then labeled with name and number

and slipped into a pot cover to make the pots look

uniform.

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NJOS Reward Program

NJOS rewards its volunteers with coupons which may

be used to purchase auction plants and/or raffle tickets.

How do you earn points? You volunteer at shows,

bring plants for the meeting show table, host speakers,

and more. Here is the current point scheme which the

NJOS Board may alter, amend or add to at any time.

Awards are presented at the July meeting.

Activity Points

Show Table participation 1

NJOS Show Volunteer: per 1/2 day 1

NJOS Set-Up/Take-Down Volunteer 3

DCOS Show Volunteer: per day 5

SEPOS Show Volunteer: per day 5

Exhibit Plants: no more than 10 1

Exhibit Ribbons: No more than 10 1

Speaker Hosting 5

NJOS Show Pre/Post work 3

NJOS Workshop Delivery 1

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Trophy PLANT/EXHIBIT GROWER

AOS Show Trophy Exhibit Marlow Orchids Marlow Orchids

Orchid Digest Trophy: Best Non-commercial

Exhibit

RAGE Rutgers Alumns

Growers/Exhibitors

Show Committee Trophy: Best in Show Vandaglossum Carolyn Ha

Kim

Marlow Orchids

Jonathan Jones

Don Richardson Memorial Trophy: Best

Specimen (other than Best in Show)

Onc. Twinkle ‘Lauren’

HCC/CCM/AOS

Bill Keating

Best Species Trophy: any genera orchid other

than Best in Show or Best Specimen

Den. nobile var.

cooksonianum

Rich Garrison

Jo Ann Petrone Trophy: Best Cattleya Species Cattleya percivaliana Bonaventure Magrys

Margaret Delage Trophy: Best Small Flower

Cattleya Hybrid

Bc. Glorious May Pat Freeland

Donald R. Carley Memorial Trophy:

Best Standard Cattleya

Blc. Mari’s Glory ‘Abbys

Surprise’ AM/AOS

Nicki Graf

Ed Howel Memorial Trophy:

Best Cymbidium Alliance

Cymbidium Clarisse

Austin ‘Red Rocket’

Michael Bowell

John B. Lager Memorial Trophy:

Best Paphiopedilum

NOT AWARDED DUE TO

JUDGES ERROR

Irene Schwarz Memorial Trophy: Best Phrag.,

Mex., or Cyp.

Phrag. Walter Scheeren Jim Marlow

Janet Howe Memorial Trophy: Best Dendrobium

Den. Jaquelyn Thomas Bill Stender

Louis Henrich Memorial Trophy: Best Oncidium

Alliance Orchids

Onc. Twinkle’Lauren’

HCC/CCM/AOS

Bill Keating

Leslie Stern Memorial Award: Best Phalaenopsis

Phal. Liu’s Cute Angel

‘KF#3’ AM/AOS

Carri Raven-Riemann

Robert Hunt Memorial Trophy:

Best Pleurothallid

Lepanthopsis astrophora Marlow orchids/

Stephen Laifer

Vandaceous Alliance Trophy:

Best Vanda Alliance

Vandaglossum Carolyn Ha

Kim

Marlow orchids/

Johathan Jones

Miscellaneous Genera Trophy Fdk. After Dark ‘SCVO’

FCC/AOS and

Lepanthopsis astrophora

Anne & Dave

Safarewitz and

Stephen Laifer

Joe Heydel Memorial Fragrance Trophy Cattleya Horace ‘Maxxima’

AM/AOS

RAGE, Nicki Graf


Our three wonderful fragrance judges,

Dirk Braun, Joanna Rossbach & Knut

Rossbach.

NJOS Show Ribbons Report NJOS

Blue Ribbon — Non-Commerical Exhibit

Trudy Bliesath

White Ribbon

Den. taylorii

Carrie Buchman

Blue Ribbon

Cym. Pearl Sachiko

Med. decoratum

Red Ribbon

Cym. sinense 'Tai Ping Yang'

Rstp. contorta

Ste. adrianae

Mcm. junctum

White Ribbon

Den. Hamana Smile 'Early Bird'

C. Kiritsubo 'Shasta Rose'

Lisa Choplo

Red Ribbon

Den. Pixie Stripes

Bart Costello

Blue Ribbon

Rlc. Sea Swirl 'Whirlpool' AM/AOS

C. Ahmad Sheikhi (C. Kittiwake x C.

Memoria Maggie Hood)

Pat Freeland

Blue Ribbon

Bc. Glorious May (C. Gene May x Bc. Morning

Glory)

Oncsa. Jiuhbao Gold 'NN'

Margret Delage Trophy

Bc. Glorious May (C. Gene May x Bc. Morning

Glory)

Diane Gennaro

White Ribbon

Den. Super Model 'Fancy'

Julie Hallberg

Red Ribbon

Phal. Unknown

Bonnie Huff

Blue Ribbon

Tolu. Genting Pink Lady

Phal. cornu-cervi

Red Ribbon

Den. Oligophyllum

Jane Schwocho White Ribbon Den. Daniel Off (Den. Joe x Den. Waianae Blush) Elena & Sergey Skoropad Blue Ribbon Onc. Aidita Tosi (Baiser x alexandrae) Paph. Saiun 'China Warrior' HCC/AOS Phal. Taida Seven Pixie Red Ribbon Paph. fairrianum f. album x Pasph. Hsinying Majakun White Ribbon Onc. Serendipity 'Starry Sky' HCC/AOS

Bill Stender Blue Ribbon Den. Jaquelyn Thomas Cym. Sweetheart 'Spring Pearl' AM/AOS Cal. Grouville x Cal. vestita Arnth. James Storie Phal. Little One Phal. Lioulin Barbie 'A07401' Janet Howe Memorial Trophy Den. Jaquelyn Thomas Red Ribbon Max. variabilis var. aurea Epc. Rene Marques 'Tyler' AM/AOS C. Bethune 'Mendenhall' x C. Mahalo Jack Bulb. lobbii 'Kathy's Gold' AM/AOS White Ribbon Brsdm. Nittany Gold Gchls. retrocallus var. peloric C. Petite Doll (Sierrra Doll 'Moterey' x C. alaorii 'Gold Country') Onc. cheirophorum V. tricolor Ralph Wahl Blue Ribbon Coel. Jannine Banks Red Ribbon Strs. speciosum Jeannie Yu Blue Ribbon Lys. Red Jewel White Ribbon Brat. Charles M. Fitch x Odcdm. Black Berry 'Hawaii'

Pictures taken by

Sergey Skoropad


New Guest Policy

Starting in October, we are instituting a $5 fee for non-members after their first visit. There is no change for a first-time visitor. Members who have not paid their dues are considered returning guests. Of course, you can pay your dues right then and there and avoid the extra fee. Dinner remains at $20 for members and non-member alike (unless Hanover Manor raises the price). The $5 does not apply to our auction nights and can be suspended by the Board at any time. Thanks for your understanding.

LET’S CONTINUE OUR BEAUTIFUL

PLANT TABLE

BRING YOUR BLOOMING PLANTS TO THE

FEBRUARY MEETING

AND LET US TAKE THEM TO THE DCOS

SHOW TO BE PART OF OUR DISPLAY

Receive 1 Point for having them on the Plant Table

And another point for having them in the display.

START EARNING POINTS TODAY☺

NJOS MEETING LOCATION Location: The Hanover Manor 16 Eagle Rock Avenue, East Hanover, NJ 973-887-2682 Dinner: 7:00 P.M.

A complete buffet dinner, including coffee/tea and dessert is available for $20

Program Begins at 8:00 P.M.

Cash bar is provided

Please have your plants on the Plant Table by

7:00 P.M

At our next meeting on

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 6th

we will be in the Embassy Room on

the left

as you enter the lobby .


NJOS PLANT TABLE DECEMBER 14, 2017 Cattleya Alliance

C. Nancy Off ‘640’ Anne & Dave Safarewitz

Blc. Triumphal Coronation ‘Seto’ AM/AOS Anne & Dave Safarewitz

Blc. Cornerstone ‘Perfect’ Anne & Dave Safarewitz

Pot. Young-min Orange Golden Satisfaction Jane Palisted

C. Gene May x Bl. Morning Glory Pat Freeland

Cymbidium Alliance

Paph. Fairly Stoned Karen Perkins

Paph. Seuiun ‘China Warrier’ HCC/AOS Elena & Sergey Skoropad

Cypripedium Alliance

Cym. Cherry Cola x Dayanum Pat Freeland

Dendrobium Alliance

Dendrobium Super Model ‘Fancy’ Diane Gennaro → → →

Dendrobium ‘Pixie Stripes’ Lisa Choplo

Oncidium Alliance

Onc. Jiuhbao Gold NN Pat Freeland

Comparettia Macroplectron ‘Mon Cherri’ AM/CCM/AOS Elena & Sergey Skoropad

Pleurothallid Alliance

Pleur. Dolichopus Richard Ho

Masd. Lollipop ‘Angel’ AM/AOS Elena & Sergey Skoropad

Sarcanthinae Alliance

Stelis Pusilla Carrie Buchman

Maxilaria Variabilis Bob Gluckin

Podochilus muricatus Trudy Bliesath

Paph. Fairly Stoned, Karen Perkins

Dendrobium ‘Pixie Stripes’

Lisa Choplo

Paph. Seuiun ‘China

Warrier’ HCC/AOS,

Elena & Sergey

Skoropad

Masd. Lollipop ‘Angel’ AM/

AOS Elena & Sergey


Onc. Maccoplectrm

‘Mon Cheri’, ? → →

C. Nancy Off ‘640’, Anne & Dave Safarewitz Blc. Triumphal Coronation ‘Seto’ AM/AOS Anne &

Dave Safarewitz

Blc. Cornerstone ‘Perfect’, Anne & Dave Safarewitz

C. Gene May x Bl. Morning Glory, Pat Freeland

Pot. Young-min Orange Golden Satisfaction,

Jane Palisted

Cym. Cherry Cola x Dayanum,

Pat Freeland

Onc. Jiuhbao Gold NN,

Pat Freeland

Pleur. Dolichopus, Richard Ho


www.njorchids.org

The North Jersey Orchid Society, Inc. is a non-profit, edu-

cational organization, dedicated to the sharing of

knowledge, information and instruction concerning the

culture of orchids, their hybridization, conservation,

display, arrangement, and exhibition. We are an affili-

ated member of the American Orchid Society (AOS),

Joint Presidents Council (JPC), and Orchid Digest.

North Jersey Orchid Society, Inc. is a tax-exempt or-

ganization under Section 501(c)(3)of the Internal Rev-

enue Code.

The objectives of the Society are to promote, carry

on and aid in the development, improvement and

preservation of orchids; to disseminate information

concerning the culture, hybridization or develop-

ment of orchids; and generally to extend the

knowledge, production, use and appreciation of

orchids of any kind in any manner.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

JULY 2017— JUNE 2018

President —Carrie Buchman;

[email protected]; 201-410-3089

Vice President —William Stender


Treasurer – Bart Costello


Recording Secretary – Lisa Choplo


Corresponding Secretary – Julie Hallberg

[email protected];732-568-1493

Membership Officer – Sandra Mackowiak


Newsletter Editor– Anita Gibaldi


Trustees :

Frank Ariosta; 201-417-3062

Trudy Bliesath; [email protected]

Nancy Gerhardt; [email protected]

Richard Ho; [email protected]

Lowell Jacobs; [email protected]

Russell Polo; 973-887-5883

Richard Rampinelli; [email protected]

Irwin Slotnick; [email protected]

Web Master

Carrie Buchman

AOS Representative

Lowell Jacobs

It is time for Flower and Garden Shows CLIP & KEEP THESE DATES

February 6 Tuesday NJOS Meeting-Dennis Whigham

***Date changed to allow for DCOS show setup***

February 8-11 DCOS ORCHID SHOW at

Dearborn Market in Holmdel, NJ

February 27 NJOS Board Meeting 7:15 p.m.

First Presbyterian Church of Hanover

March 3-11 Philadelphia Flower Show

Philadelphia Convention Center, Philadelphia PA (Carrie Buchman Co-chair of Orchid)

March 8 NJOS Auction—Cash and Coupons

April 6-8 SEPOS Orchid Show—Greater Phildelphia

Expo Center, Oaks PA

April 12 NJOS Meeting—Allen Black, Brassavola

Nodosa

May 10 NJOS Meeting, Potting Party

June 14 NJOS Meeting—Francisco Miranda,

Brazillian orchids

July 12 NJOS Meeting—Joe Silva,

Pictures taken by

Sergey Skoropad

AOS Show Trophy— Marlow Orchids

Best in

Show—

Vandaglossum

Carolyn Ha

Kim


THE FEBRUARY 2018 AOS CORNER – From the desk of Denise Lucero, Vice Chair, American Orchid Society Affiliated Societies Committee ([email protected]).

AS SHOW SEASON STARTS Most Affiliated Societies are now hard at work making plans as Orchid Show Season comes around once again. We have just added a new pdf document on the Affiliated Society page to help. AOS Awards Registrar, Laura Newton, has provided a summary for the use of the Affiliated Societies on Exhibiting Orchids for AOS Judging. Here’s a small snippet of what you will find…

There is nothing quite like winning your very first American Or-chid Society Award. The thrill of knowing that you own a flower of the highest quality, or that you have grown a plant so well that you are being honored for your growing prowess, or that you have a species that will be recognized for the very first time, and on top of that-- knowing that your name will forever be listed in the records for Orchid Awards throughout the world is an experi-ence like no other!

There are several ways that you can enter your orchids for AOS judging. You can enter them into an AOS- sanctioned show (either individually or as part of a society or vendor display), take them in to an AOS Judging Center monthly judging, or partici-pate in an AOS Outreach Judging. Check out the Calendar for all judging events http://www.aos.org/news-events/event-calendar.aspx . They are also posted in Orchids magazine monthly.

Before you bring in or submit a plant for judging you should be aware of all the rules: http://www.aos.org/orchid-awards-judging/judging-handbook/judging-process.aspx

WHY DO YOU GROW THE ORCHIDS YOU GROW: Now It’s Habenarias Written by Sue Bottom

(This article was originally published in the January 2016 edition of Orchids Magazine)

HAS YOUR TASTE in orchids changed over time? When you first start growing orchids, you buy everything in sight; all you know is that you need more, more! Cattleyas are my enduring favorite, the incredible flowers, the fragrance; perhaps that’s why most of my benches and overhead poles are filled with them. But then you go to an orchid show and see something that you simply can’t live without.

In the beginning it was phalaenopsis. When we were living in Houston, the Houston Orchid Society was a phalaenopsis club thanks in part to Bill Tippitt’s breeding of multifloral phals. It was an exciting time for phalaenopsis, the hybridizing for yel-lows was in its heyday and the harlequin phals had just been in-troduced. How can you not love phals with their long-lived graceful blooms?

Then one day Stephen Moffitt gave a presentation to the Galves-ton club about catasetums, so naturally I started growing them. What is easier than a plant that requires no winter care during its dormancy but grows like mad in the summer? Add Fred Clarke of Sunset Valley Orchids into the mix with all his beautiful and fascinating hybrids and there are new wows to tempt you every year. Next there was the vanda phase; so many colors, sizes and shapes! After that it was the ephemeral stanhopeas. That addic-tion started with a Stanhopea grandiflora that bloomed eight times in one year. Can you spell hooked?

It took a bit of observing how others succeeded with theirs and some trial and error until I could reliably rebloom them and by then I had almost two dozen different varieties. After that came the African angraecoids in their white and green glory, the den-drochilums with their chains of miniature flowers and… well, you get the idea.

Roy Tokunaga of H&R Nurseries had some Habenaria medu-sa seedlings for sale when he came to talk to our club and I had seen pictures of this oddity and thought, why not? When it bloomed, it was love at first sight and the hunt was on for more. There have been many enablers along the way, including Thanh Nguygen of Springwater Orchids on the East Coast and Peter T. Lin of Diamond Orchids on the West Coast and several in be-tween. Before the year was over, there were about two dozen habenarias in the greenhouse, orchids that grow from tubers and require a dry dormant winter.

That’s how I found myself outdoors on a cold January afternoon with all these dead-looking plants figuring out how I was going to repot them, so they’d come back to life in the spring. The trickiest part is keeping the tuber oriented, so the shoot end is pointing up and the root end is pointing down, easier said than done in that one end looks pretty much like the other. I think I made the wrong decision on one or two of them last year. For the similarly afflicted, this is what I have gleaned from reading about them and talking with other orchid growers.

POT SELECTION First, look for deeper standard size pots rather than the shallower azalea or bulb pots. Don’t use peanuts at the bottom of the pot because that’s where the tubers will want to form. Use smallish pots; if you think you’re slightly underpot-ting, you’ve probably chosen the right pot.

POTTING MIX Most growers suggest using either sphagnum moss or ProMix HP as your potting mix. I opted for a ProMix HP–sponge rock mix and top-dressed with a little sphagnum moss so the soilless mix wouldn’t wash out of the pot. If you use sphagnum moss, make sure you have the AAA grade; otherwise find a good soilless mix. Next year I may try a few in straight sphagnum moss packed tightly enough that the plants will stand up without support.

WHEN TO REPOT After flowering, the vegetation starts to brown, and the plants begin to enter dormancy. The tubers are still growing and storing energy for next year’s growth, so just limit your watering until the plant dies back completely. Don’t be in any hurry to remove the dead top vegetation from the pot be-cause that will help you orient the tubers properly during the repotting process.

TUBER ORIENTATION If you just knock the plant out of the pot and clean away the old potting mix like you would with other orchids, you’ll find yourself saying oops, which end is up? The first-time repotting, I held the tubers in my hand, oriented top to bottom, from depotting through repotting, to make sure they didn’t get turned around. Often you can tell there is a pointy end from which the shoot grows that should be oriented up when you repot. But if you can’t tell which end should be up, hedge your bets and lay the tuber sideways.

THEN YOU WAIT Once your tuber is happily ensconced in its dry new home, put the pot someplace where it won’t acci-dentally get watered. You have to wait until the tuber breaks dor-mancy and sends up a new shoot and then you can begin water-ing. If there is no new growth when all your other orchids have spring fever, you can give your Habenaria an occasional sip to encourage it to start growing. Once it has a few inches (several

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YOUR SOCIETY CAN EARN FREE AOS MEMBERSHIP EXTEN-SIONS:

Encourage new membership to AOS. Affiliated societies can now earn a one-month extension of their AOS society membership for each new AOS member that they refer (note: membership renew-als don’t count). For now, the only way to take advantage of this program is to download and print the AOS Membership Applica-tion Form, check the box “yes” to indicate that you are a member of a local orchid society, most importantly fill in the NAME of your orchid society, and mail the completed application and payment to: AOS, 10901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables, Florida 33156.

With twelve new AOS members, your affiliated society can have a FULL YEAR OF FREE AOS membership! Be sure to have mem-bership applications with your society’s name already filled in and available at your club meetings!

Remember to let your members know, we want to sweeten the deal and give them every possible reason to join AOS today! If they become an American Orchid Society member, they have con-siderably more resources at their disposal making growing orchids even more enjoyable and successful. Digital Access To Over 350+ past issues of Orchids magazine extending back to 1932!

WHAT ARE WEBINARS? Webinars are an Internet con-ference where you can hear the speaker and view his presentation, ask questions, and hear interactions from other members of the audience. You can join either on your computer or by phone. You can join from anywhere, via your Mac, PC or even your mobile device. Audio is in-cluded, so attendees can phone in or use VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). You will need a microphone for your computer to use VoIP.

WANT TO LEARN, BUT CAN’T MAKE THE DATE? The live webinars will be recorded and posted on the AOS web-site, where you will find a link allowing you to view the webinars at your convenience.

UPCOMING WEBINARS

It’s easy to find all of the scheduled webinars and to register on the AOS website. You’ll find the link under the All About Orchids tab. If you check there, you will find any webinars that have been scheduled after the production of the monthly Corner.

American Orchid Society: Greenhouse Chat with Ron McHatton Tuesday, February6, 2018 @ 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM EST Open to all Please join Ron McHatton, American Orchid Society Director of Education and Science Officer, who will discuss a variety of top-ics on orchid culture based on questions submitted by at-tendees. Please send your questions to [email protected] by Friday, February 2nd. Register now using this link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3591894867316552963

Doctor, Doctor, I see spots: Cattleya guttata with Andrew Coghill-Behrends Wednesday, February 21, 2018 @ 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM EST Members only Join Andrew Coghill-Behrends as he presents a discussion on Cattleya guttata and its hybrids. Register now using this link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3455364111863945474

Note: After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail con-taining information about joining the seminar.

centimeters) of new growth, give it copious amounts of water and fertilizer during the growing season because, like your other win-ter dormant orchids, it has to cram 12 months of growing into seven or eight months or less. In the fall the bloom spikes will emerge from the center of the plant; get ready for the show!

Orchid growers go through all sorts of trials and tribulations learning how to grow one type of orchid and then when they fi-nally figure it out, they decide to start growing a different type of orchid. It is probably natural that our taste in orchids evolves over time. After all, if you look back at your recipes from several years ago you realize your ingredients and techniques have mor-phed over time… though you must be careful not to admit to a Louisiana native that you are now adding beans to the gumbo!

Sue Bottom started growing orchids in Houston in the mid-1990s after her husband Terry built her first greenhouse. They settled into St. Augustine, Florida, Sue with her orchids and Terry with his camera and are active in the St. Augustine Or-chid Society, maintaining the society’s website and publishing its monthly newsletter. Sue is also a member of the AOS Pub-lication Committee ([email protected]).

Habenaria erichmichelii 'Memoria Ernst Michel' CHM/AOS; Pho-tographer: James McCulloch

THE FEBRUARY ISSUE OF ORCHIDS MAGAZINE will feature great articles and beautiful pictures on:

• Genus of the Month - Caucaea • Orchids Illustrated - Timothy Sheldrake • For the Novice - Calcium deficiency • The Story of White Cattleyas • Dendrobium bigibbum, Part 2: The Hybrids • Who Were These Guys? Part 4: Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach • Red Vandas

Vanda Will Riley 'Bonnie Riley' FCC/AOS; Photographer: Tom Kuligowski

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Calendar of Orchid Society Meetings:

2nd Tuesday, 7:30 pm Deep Cut Orchid Society Monmouth Reform Temple, Tinton Falls, NJ

2nd Tuesday, 8 pm Greater Westchester O.S. 216 Halstead Ave. Harrison, NY

2nd Wednesday, Manhattan orchid Society, SLC Conference Center, 15 West 39th St.,3rd Fl. NYC (btwn. 5th & 6th Aves.) 212-244-8888 2nd Thursday, 8 pm North Jersey O.S. (dinner 7 pm, $20 per

person) The Hanover Manor, 16 Eagle Rock Ave., East Hanover, NJ www.njorchids.org

2nd Thursday, 6:30 pm Long Island O.S. Knights of Columbus Hall, 45 Heitz

Place, Hicksville, 11801.

2nd Sunday, 1:30 pm Mid Hudson Orchid Society, Union Presbyterian Church, Newburgh NY

3rd Tuesday, 7:30 pm Staten Island O.S. All Saints Episcopal Church, 2329 Victory Blvd., Staten Island NY

3rd Thursday, 7 pm Ramapo O.S. Flat Rock Brook Nature Center, Englewood, NJ 3rd Saturday, 10 am AOS Northeast Regional Judging, Bartlett Arboretum, 151 Brookdale Rd. Stamford, CT 06903 Call John Sullivan 201-891-6657 4th Tuesday, 7 pm Jersey Highlands Orchid Society (JHOS) Bristol Glen, 200 Bristol Glen Drive, Newton, NJ 07860 Please call ahead to confirm date and location before attending. Some societies do not meet in the summer.

Editors Note

Deadline for the MARCH 2018 newsletter is FEBRUARY 24

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Please submit your articles before the due date to me directly at [email protected].

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