Tidewater Orchid Society Newsletter

February 2006

Meeting: February 5th, 2006  2:00 PM Mills Godwin Auditorium ODU

Phylis Erikson of Ironwood Estate Orchids will be with us, topic to be announced. She will bring plants to sell     

Presidents Message:  

We started off the New Year with a good attendance and a good speaker. Mark Werther gave an interesting talk on Broughtonias, and he and Ken Peterson discussed some of our orchids out in the foyer. Members always bring a lot of first class orchids and this was no exception. I only had time to glance at a few, but Carolyn Alliss's huge white Cattleyas stood out, and when I think of Paphiopedilums  Evalyn Walch springs to mind. She always has great plants. As far as I am concerned the spicerianum and the white venustum are a couple of my favorites. To spend a little longer admiring Evalyn’s Paphiopedilums visit the society’s web site- like I did- and see some more of her orchids.

       I hope that some of the newer members visited the Virginia Flower and Garden show. They would see the societies display because in a show they are arranged so much different to how you see them at our meetings.

       Do not forget we now go back to our regular schedule of meeting the first Sunday of every month.

                      David W

Future Meetings

March 5 – Ray Barkalow of First Rays Orchids will speak about semi-hydroponic culture of orchids.

            Semi-hydroponic supplies will be for sale.

April 2 –  William Mathis of the Wild Orchid Company. Subject to be announced.

May 7 – Annual purchased plant auction

June 4 – Annual picnic and donated plant auction.

Aug/Sept 27 – To be announced

October 1 – Annual donated plant auction.

November 5 – Rob Griesbach will join us. Topic to be announced.

Web Page

The site is http://www.mycommunityis.com/tos. Jon has added some beautiful photos of some of Evalyn Walch’s Paphiopediulums and Phragmipediums. Click on over and take a look.

Newsletter

All entries are due the 15^th of each month, except June and July, and due by the 10^th in August. All are subject to editing.

Results of table judging from January meeting

Cattleya
1. Bc Maikai ‘Mayumi’
   Whistler

2. Blc Pamela Hetherington ‘Coronation’ FCC/AOS
   Whistler

3. B nodosa ‘Little Stars’
    Voytilla

Cypripedium

1. Paph Vanguard
   Adair

2. Paph spicerianum
   Adair

3. Paph Edward Marshall
   Voytilla

Vanda

1. V Patcharee Delight ‘Black’ AM/JOGA
   Whistler

2. V Pat Delight ‘Big Flower’
    Adair

3. V Trevor Rathbone
   Whistler

Phalaenopsis

1. Phal equestris x phal viridis ‘Greencote’
   Adair

Oncidium

1. Bllra Marfitch ‘Howard’s Dream’
   Whistler

Cymbidium
   No Entries

Dendrobium

1. Den Super Ise hybrid
   Whistler

Miscellaneous Hybrids
   No Entries

Miscellaneous Species

1. Bulb propinguum
   Adair

2. Stelis eaperbiens
    Voytilla