Next Meeting: May 3, 2009, 1PM, Old Dominion
University Cafeteria:
Annual Purchased Plant Auction. Preview 12 Noon.
Boxes
will NOT be provided this year so please bring your own.
President’s Message
This has been a sad month for Tidewater Orchid Society. We have lost a
long standing pillar of our society. Arthur's love of orchids was infectious
spreading appreciation and knowledge of these wonderful plants. The Arthur and
Phyllis Kaplan Orchid Conservatory stands as reminder of this and his great joy
in sharing the beauty of orchids with others.
May brings us to our purchased plant auction. George worked with Arthur
to procure the plants for this year's auction. Please spread the word about our
auction to friends and other orchid lovers. We want this to be a great success.
Remember that we start early that day; the auction begins at 1:00 PM, with a
preview at noon.
I hope to see you there.
Sincerely,
Ruta
Mah
Programs
June, Picnic
August 30, Ernie Gemeinhart,
Enlightened Orchids
October 4, Donated Plant
Auction
November 1, Frank
Slaughter, AOS Judge, Converting Slides of Awarded Plants to Digital.
Purchased
Plant Auction
Your committee has worked hard to obtain approximately 200 absolutely
great plants for the auction. Over the years we have developed a close personal
relationship with each of our growers and are assured of getting the finest
quality plants as we have in the past. This year the growers are the same as
last: H & R Nursery in HI; Carmela Orchids, also of HI; Tropical Orchid Farm
of Maui, HI. We will again be getting Phrags, Paphs and Bulbophyllums from Windy
Hill Gardens in Labadie, Missouri.
Our thanks to those members, who have volunteered to receive, carefully
unpack, label and house the plants and bring them to the auction: The Bryans,
Walchs, Adairs, and Dot Pierce And a big “thanks” to Charles Rhodes racing
to make last minute deadlines with the plant lists and Dave Bryan who spends
countless hours attempting to find a picture of each plant to project on a
screen to be certain each of you can see what those not in bloom will look like.
What a service to the Society!
We hope every member of TOS will support this auction this Sunday. Come
to have fun and buy plants or if you can resist buying a new plant or two, just
sit by and cheer the other bidders on and please try to stay until he biddings
is over!. We promise there will be
something for everyone. For new growers, we will seat you next to an experienced
grower to keep you from overbidding and to guarantee that you don’t buy
something you can’t grow. There will always be another plant to buy. Feel free
to invite your friends who might want to buy orchids. We welcome them---and to
everyone, bring your checkbooks and plenty of cash!!! Culture sheets to help you
grow a plant with which you may not be acquainted will be available. In
addition, all members are encouraged to bring all the blooming plants they can
for the display table to help demonstrate what a particular plant not in bloom
could look like. This helps new members and guests in particular.
George Heuser
Auction Committee Chair