June  COS monthly meeting:
Wednesday June 11th, 2014 – doors open 6:30 pm
Farmington Senior Center
321 New Britain Avenue, Unionville, CT

Speaker: Ron Parsons – Orchids of Sichuan, China

Ron Parsons is considered by many to be one of the finest flower photographers in the United States. His photography and encyclopedic knowledge of orchids is known both nationally and internationally. He has been photographing orchids, wildflowers, and almost every other kind of plant for over 25 years, and has a slide collection that numbers well over 80,000 slides! He went “digital” just over a year ago, and in this short time has taken thousands of photos orchids, wildflowers and other rare plants. See the orchid photogallery for some of his new digital photographs.

Ron is a popular speaker, and gives talks frequently on variety of orchid-related topics, as well as on California wildflowers, cacti and succulents, carnivorous plants, gesneriads and bromeliads.  His talks feature his beautiful color slides of the subject matter, in-depth information, and first-hand knowledge about the species discussed.

Ron Parsons is a member of the San Francisco Orchid Society, The Peninsula Orchid Society, The Orchid Society of California, and the Bay Area Pleurothallid Alliance. Ron is also a member of the San Francisco Succulent and Cactus Society, and the American Gesneriad Society of San Francisco.

Ron will be bringing plants for sale but there will be no pre-order list, as he will be dividing plants from his own collection and bringing them bare root.