Pan American Orchid Society

Affiliated with the American Orchid Society

 

 

When

Where

Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.

Christ The King Lutheran Church

11295 S.W. 57 Avenue (Red Road)

 

Dear members and friends,

May is our annual business meeting where we elect a new slate of officers and committee members for the coming year. The nominating

committee has proposed the following people for the Board and Committee positions and nominations will be accepted from the floor.

If you want to decline, you’d better call our current President and the nominating committee:

Board Members:

 

President:

Sue Samuels

1st Vice-President:

Carmen Segrera

2nd Vice-President:

Erna Maxwell and Shirley Berckmans

Treasurer:

Joanne Brown

Secretary/Editor:

Gio Lester and Georgia Ruiz

 

 

Committees:

 

Refreshments:

Georgie Ruiz, Catherine Pendlebury and Ghislaine Greene

Raffle:

Carmen Segrera and Pat Chen Yin

Silent Auction:

Michelle Briois

Special Events:

Bob and Audrey Hartwell

Annual Auction:

Ghislaine Greene

AOS Representative:

Gail Weber

Sunshine:

Doris Maguire

 

As you all know, this weekend is the Redland International Orchid Festival held at the Fruit & Spice Park. If you’re helping out, please remember to wear your Pan Am nametag. The people at the gates who collect the entry fees will need to check your name on a list. If you are on the morning shift, the gates to the parking lot will be open for volunteers and vendors until about 8:30 am. You should try to be at the park before 9 am. Thank you all for volunteering. If you are attending, please stop in at the air conditioned auditorium to hear one or more of the informative lectures. The schedule follows:

 

Friday May 15, 2009

12:30 Edwin DeJesus Introduction to Orchid Growing
1:30 Linda Wilhelm Woodland Orchids The Magnificent Stanhopea
2:30 Dr. Ruben Sauleda Ruben in Orchids Popular Encyclias and their Hybrids

 

Saturday May 16, 2009

11:30 George Hausermann EFG Orchids Orchids for that Shady Location
12:30 Francisco Villegas Orquifollajes Las Orquideas Nativas de Colombia
1:30 Alex Lamazares Orchidmania Potting/Mounting Orchids
2:30 Dr. Robert Mcmillan Kerry's Bromeliads Diseases of Orchids
3:30 Greg Butler Oak Hill Gardens Easily Grown Orchids

 

Sunday May 17, 2009

10:30 Dr. Martin Motes Motes Orchids Vanda Culture
11:30 Dr. Catharine Mannion Tropical Research & Education Center Pests of Orchids
12:30 Dr. Robert Mcmillan Kerry's Bromeliads Diseases of Orchids
1:30 Ruben Sauleda Ruben in Orchids Las Orquideas Nativas de Cuba
2:30 Axel Cahiz Amazonas Orchids El Cultivo de Cattleyas
3:30 Alex Lamazares Orchidmania Potting/mounting Orchids
All lectures are held in the air-conditioned lecture room at The Fruit & Spice Park

 

Refreshments for May: the following members will be providing the refreshments this month. Thank you all for your contributions:

Javier Morejon, Catherine Pendlebury, Joan Manley, Maria Serna, Magda Rosales, Joanne Gerber.

 

Tasks for May (excerpted from Martin Motes’ monthly newsletter)

Repot Phalaenopsis out of sphagnum

Finish repotting of various genera

Reset vandaceous plants, remove keikies

Water heavily early in month, more guardedly later

Initiate preventive spray maintenance program (See Fla. Orchid Growing: Month by Month pg.168)

 

Ribbon Awards for April 2009

 

 

First Place

 

 

Maxillaria hennisiana (shephearoii)

Robert Birenbaum

 

Aspasia epidendroides

Mirta Heineman

 

Encyclia atropurpurea

Mirta Heineman

 

Rdcm. Spunky

Mirta Heineman

 

Prostechea cocleata

Mirta Heineman

 

Ren. Imschootiana 'Maj' x Ren. Citrina 'Maj' (HM/AOS)

Jorge Morejon

 

Lc. Irene Finney x C. Cherry Chip

Elizabeth Pettit

 

Angraecum sesquipedale 'Orchidglade'

Ivis & Jorge Rodriguez

 

Paph. Concolor 'A'

Ivis & Jorge Rodriguez

 

Paph. Julius Rothschildianum AM/AOS

Ivis & Jorge Rodriguez

 

Paph. Philippinense 'Alford' AM/AOS

Ivis & Jorge Rodriguez

 

Den. Aggregatum 'Majus' x sibling

Magda Rosales

 

Pleurothallis grobyii

Carlos & Carmen Segrera

 

Asctm. Curvifolium

Jean Wilson

 

C. violacea 'Jean Wilson' FCC/AOS

Jean Wilson

 

Den. Thyroiflorum

Jean Wilson

 

Paph. Rory Jones

Jean Wilson

 

 

 

 

Second Place

 

 

Kefersteinia paruilabris

Robert Birenbaum

 

Cymbidielia Rhodochila (Pardilina)

Robert Birenbaum

 

Grammatofilum elegans

Brenda Martinez

 

Asctm. Curvifolium

Javier Morejon

 

Gongora historionica

Javier Morejon

 

Onc. Sphacelatum

Javier Morejon

 

Brassavola subifolia

Mirta Heineman

 

Den. Tangerinum 'Impact' HCC/AOS

Mirta Heineman

 

C. intermedia var. orlata

Mirta Heineman

 

Epi. Bracteolatum

Ivis & Jorge Rodriguez

 

Paph. Myra (Chamberlainianum x Haynaldianum) x Lowii

Ivis & Jorge Rodriguez

Epicat Frances Dyer

Eleanor Sanfilippo

Blc. Laura Bush

Carlos & Carmen Segrera

Bro. Sanguinea x C. skinneri

Carlos & Carmen Segrera

Paph. Hsinying cocomaster 'Crystal' x Paph. Peacock Formal 'Crystelle' AM/AOS

Carlos & Carmen Segrera

Phal. Ariana

Carlos & Carmen Segrera

C. intermedia var. acquinii

Jean Wilson

 

 

See you all on May 19, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.

or

at 7 p.m. for Mirta’s class

 

 

(Please note that this newsletter was delayed due to the cancellation of our speaker. As of this time we are still working on getting someone at the last minute.)

 

Below are photos taken by Jean Wilson of the awarded orchids at last month’s meeting. Thank you Jean.