Archive | May 2015

COS June 10 meeting – Farmington

COS monthly meeting: Wednesday June 10, 2015 – doors open 7:00 pm

Farmington Senior Center 321 New Britain Avenue, Unionville, CT

PRE ORDERS:  This is an exclusive list of plants available for pre order for our June meeting with Martin Motes.    MOTES Seedlings for Summer pre-sales      There are additional items on his website at www.MotesOrchids.com     EMAIL your preorders to MartinMotes@gmail.com and include the plant number and your name and reference the COS June 10th meeting. 

Meet Martin Motes

Author of Vandas: Their Botany, History, and Culture, Florida Orchid Growing: Month by Month, Florida Vanda Growing.

Martin Motes is a second generation orchidist who has been growing orchids for 60 years. He is president of Motes Orchids, a major producer of vandas. He has bred hundreds of new hybrids, for which he has received scores of American Orchid Society awards including three FCC’s and three Awards of Quality. His hybrids received Gold, Silver and Bronze medals at the 18th World Orchid conference in Dijon, March 2005. One hybrid garnered the trophy as “Best Vanda in Show”. Other hybrids have won medals in previous WOCs as well as at the European Orchid Conference. Additionally numerous of his hybrids have been recognized by the Royal Horticultural Society and in other international judging venues. He is an accredited American Orchid Society judge.

Martin’s frequent articles have appeared in The Fairchild Garden Bulletin, The Kew Bulletin, The South Florida Orchidist, The Orchid Digest, The Orchid Review, The Malayan Orchid Review and Orchids.

Martin was an assistant professor of English at WrightStateUniversity for several years and has taught at the University of Miami and Miami-DadeCommunity   College. He spent nine years as the director of horticulture therapy at GrantCenterHospital and was a consultant on horticulture therapy for the Hospital Corporation of America.

A native Floridian, Martin has lived most of his life in Miami, Florida, but also spent 6 years in Ohio and 2 years in Yugoslavia as a Senior Fulbright lecturer at the University of Kosova. He has traveled extensively in the Mediterranean and has observed wild orchids in Ambon, Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Britain, the Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Florida, Guatemala, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Java, Malaya, Moluccas, Mexico, Nepal, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Thailand, Venezuela, the Virgin Islands and Yugoslavia.

Martin has been interviewed by both print and TV journalists on topics ranging from community issues in southern Florida to horticultural therapy and orchids. He is an appointed member of the Miami-Dade Agricultural Advisory Board. He is a research Fellow at FairchildTropicalBotanic Garden.

Martin has twice taught Vanda Production and other topics at the University of Florida Orchid Short Course in Gainesville. He has worked as a consultant in various capacities to the extensive orchid industry in South Florida. He teaches classes at FairchildTropicalGardens which in addition to Orchids include Growing Asiatic Vegetables, and Great Tasting Tomatoes for South Florida.

As many as 20 lectures a year fills Martin’s busy schedule. In the past this has included national orchid conferences in the US, Britain and Australia. He was a featured speaker at the World Orchid Conferences in Rio, Dijon, Kuala Lumpur, where he chaired the Hybridizer’s Forum and was a panel member at the Commercial Grower’s Forum and in Singapore. He is scheduled as Key Note Speaker at the South African National Orchid Conference in September 2012. He publishes a monthly news letter “ This Month in Your Orchid Collection” geared to the special needs of orchid growers in South Florida and other tropical regions.

He initiated the Redland and Tamiami International Orchid Festivals, South Florida’s two largest Orchid events.

He is currently working on a monograph of the genus Vanda with David Roberts and Lauren Gardener of Kew, with whom he has described several new species and a new genus.

To get away from the orchid greenhouse, Martin reads and occasionally, writes poetry, tends his vegetable garden, and fishes.

 

 

REPOTTING CLINIC June 14!!

Orchid Potting Clinic

Sponsored by the Connecticut Orchid Society

Sunday June 14, 2015
10 am – 2 pm

Alcher Interiors, Southbury CT

205 Main Street South 06488

 

The members of the CT Orchid Society will host a repotting clinic in the parking lot of Alcher Interiors. Is your plant not growing as well as it could be, not bloomed again since you bought it, or looking too big for its pot? Repotting can alleviate all these problems.  Bring your plant and a CLEAN pot of your choice (orchid roots like small, shallow pots) and let the members do all the hard work! All types of orchids welcome. Learn tips and tricks about growing methods and media from the members while they pot up your plant to help it grow its best.

 

Cost: $ 5.00 per plant 4 inch pots or smaller. POTTING MEDIA IS INCLUDED, BUT PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN CLEAN POT.

 

$10.00 per plant 5-8 inch pots 9+ inch pots, divisions of large plants, please contact a board member via the COS website

 

https://ctorchids.org/

 

or on Facebook for a quote.

 

CT Orchid Society is a Private, Non-Profit 501c organization.

Deb Landry – AOS HCC award!!

 

Deb Landry with AOS awarded Paph.

Deb Landry with AOS awarded Paph.

 

 

The plant, Paph. St. Swithin has 10 flowers on 3 inflorescences.  I purchased the plant as a seedling in 1996.  The plant has been divided but the other one has only 6 growths.   The judges awarded an HCC 79 points.  There were 204 previous awards since 1965, so I was even more surprised that I received an award!  This is my first AOS award.

May 13th Cheshire Meeting – Orchids of Mexico

May 2015 COS monthly meeting: Wednesday May 13, 2015 – doors open 7:00 pm

Cheshire Senior Center 240 Maple Ave, Cheshire, CT 06410

T.J. Hartung is our speaker this month discussing Orchids of Mexico!

T.J. is the President of the Vallarta Orchid Society in Puerto Vallarta Mexico,  a Board Member of Vallarta Botanical Gardens, and the Author of some great articles:

“My Favorite Mexican Orchids,” Orchids Magazine, 2013, pgs 82, 336, 598

 “The Orchid Clock,” Orchids Magazine, 2011, page 64