April 3, 2:00PM Rose Garden Hall at the Norfolk Botanical Gardens
Arthur Kaplan will speak to us about
"Orchid Collections within a Collection: Schomburgkias, Coelogynes, Bulbophyllums, and Dendrobiums"

President's Message:

Spring is finally here, and I think we are all really ready for it.  I look forward to seeing everyone at the April meeting.  We will be voting for our slate of officers for 2005/6 and our budget for 2005/6.  I would like to thank the members of the nominating committee and the budget committee for their work on our behalf.

The board will be discussing many things at their March meeting.  Hopefully we will have some information about future meeting locations and future education classes for you soon.

Joanne Bryan

The following have been submitted by the nominating committee for the 2005/06 board. Nominations can be taken from the floor, with the approval of the nominee:

President - David Wheatley
Vice President - Ruta Skrinska
Secretary - Charles Rhodes
Treasurer - Sharon Peterson

Trustees - Gil Gillespii
                  Nancy Dillingham

Attention:
If you have an orchid in bud or bloom and would like to donate it as a door prize please contact Cindy Adair at mailto:aladair@cox.net. She will gladly accept any donations and all plants regardless of bloom status. All donations welcomed and appreciated

Plato’s Recipe for Cypress Mulch Potting Medium:

First you buy a 2 cubic feet bag of cypress mulch form a garden center (Lowe’s and Home Depot are inexpensive.)
Add one 5-gallon bucket of good, horticultural grade peat moss to mulch. Mix well.
Next add ½ of a 5-gallon bucket of perlite (maybe adjusted to your watering regimen.) Mix well again.
Pot your plants as you normally would.

Plato’s watering regimen:   He waters four times with fertilizer, then the fifth he uses only water.

Table Judging Results

March 2005

CATTLEYA                                                                            ONCIDIUM

1. Lc Culminant ‘La Tutlere’                                                      NO ENTRIES
               Welch

2. Slc Ginny Champion ‘Prince’
                DeCoudres

3. Low Spitfire ‘Red Hot’ HCC/AOS 
                       Heuser

CYPRIPEDIUM                                                                     CYMBIDIUM

1. Paph St Swithin                                                             1. Cym Mystique
            Adair                                                                             Heuser

2. Paph delanatii ‘A’ Jungle Select x Paph delanatii ‘B’       2. Ansiella gigantean ‘Yellow Fountain’
                                         Adair                                                          DeCoudres

3. Paph malipoense
            Walch

VANDA                                                                                  DENDROBIUM

1. Ascda Princess Mikasa ‘Rosado’                                          1. Den Gold Star ‘Orange Royal’
                     Adair                                                                                   DeCoudres

                                                            2. Den kingianum
                                                                              DeCoudres

                                                                                    3. Den Green Elf
                                                                                                         Walch

PHALAENOPSIS                                                                  MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES

1. Phal Zuma Aussie Delight ‘Zuma Beach’ AM/AOS            1. Stenorrhycus speciosum is now Spiranthes speciosa
                                     Walch                                                                                 Walch

2. Phal manii                                                                             2. Bulb sumatranum
       Walch                                                                                          Walch

3. Phal Brother Pepride                                                            3. Chysis bractescens
          Heuser                                                                                     DeCoudres