October 1 st (Saturday) Has been canceled due to weather!

There is no rain date! The picnic is in lieu of our Sept. Meeting.

There WILL be an October meeting on 10/12

Time is from 1 to 5 PM

Bring your own picnic basket for yourself
We will supply water
If you have any dessert you want to bring to share, that is welcome.
If you have any plants in bloom, please bring them!

Directions:

Black Rock State Park

Park Location

US Route 6
Watertown

Directions

From Route 8 north: take Exit 38. Turn left at the end of the exit ramp to first traffic light. Turn left at traffic light onto US Route 6 west. Park entrance is a 1/2 mile on the right on US Route 6.

From Route 8 south: take Exit 38. Go straight ahead at the end of the exit ramp to US Route 6 west. Park entrance is on the right.

Symbol for Handicapped Accessibility ACCESSIBILITY

This park offers:

Bathrooms

Parking

Bathrooms

HOURS:

The park is open from 8 am to sunset. Gates are open on weekends only, from the second Saturday in April until Memorial Day, 8 am to sunset. From Memorial Day to October 1st, they are open daily between 8 am and sunset.

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES:

Alcohol-free park. Please do not bring alcoholic beverages.

June 8th Meeting will be at Farmington Senior Center

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Our June 8 th meeting will be in FARMINGTON at the Farmington Senior Center located at 321 New Britain Ave in Unionville, CT 06085

Doors open at 6:30 pm and the meeting starts at 7:00 pm

Come early and help us set up.

Our speaker will be Tim Culbertson. (A short bio is below) Also, he will be bringing plants for sale!!!!

Bio for Tim Culbertson

Although I teach middle school kids for a living, one of my passions has always been plants. I began growing orchids as an offshoot from working at Longwood Gardens in Philadelphia just after college. From the very beginning it was all about Paphs, particularly awarded and select clones of historic importance, of which my collection numbers nearly 3000. While I love finding old, rare stepping stones in Paph. breeding, I also do a little hybridizing of my own, and growing up my own babies is a blast. I am an accredited judge with the American Orchid Society, and have served in various capacities with various orchid societies in California and on the East Coast. I love meeting other people who like orchids too, and doing so often finds me traveling to shows, vendors, and peoples’ greenhouses to see the latest and greatest in new hybrids and to get the best orchid gossip. I like to be involved in plants as much as possible: in addition to Longwood, I’ve worked at the Smithsonian Institution tending to their orchids, and for years for the United States National Arboretum, collecting rare plants and documenting cultivated species and hybrids for their herbarium. In short, I really like plants.

Hope to see everyone there!

April 13th Meeting will be in Farmington!

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Our April 13th meeting will be in FARMINGTON at the Farmington Senior Center located at 321 New Britain Ave in Unionville, CT 06085

Doors open at pm and the meeting starts at pm

Come early and help us set up.

Our speaker will be Francisco Miranda. A short bio is below. Also, he will be bringing plants!!!!

Hope to see everyone there!

Bio: Francisco Miranda was born in Rio de Janeiro on February 6, 1956. He got his degree
in Biology and began his taxonomic studies in the orchid family in 1981. During the
next 4 years, he lived most of the time in Manaus where he studied Amazon orchids
and began his Master’s degree. Shortly after returning to Rio de Janeiro, the Master’s
was completed on “section Cattleyodes of the genus Laelia”. Since then, the main
interest has been on the Brazilian laelias and cattleyas. He is the author of several
papers ranging from species descriptions to subjects of growers’ interest in Brazilian,
German and U.S. publications. He is also the author of two books. Since 2000, he lives in
Haines City, Florida, where he operates Miranda Orchids, an orchid nursery
specializing in Brazilian species and the Cattleya alliance. He also guides trips to
Brazil and frequently visits Brazilian habitats to find new and/or interesting orchid
species.