Greg Griffis will be Presenting on the Eric Young Orchid Foundation
Cattleya gaskelliana at Longwood Gardens in the Orchid House
Meeting Date: Wednesday, January 14th at the Cheshire Senior Center. Doors open at 6:30pm for socializing and the meeting starts at 7pm.
The Cheshire Senior Center is located at: 240 Maple Ave, Cheshire, CT 06410
Presentation: The Eric Young Orchid Foundation – Updates and Future Outlook
For some people, an interest in plants comes from being exposed at a young age, but for people like Greg Griffis, plants became a passion a little later in life
“I grew up in a family that did a lot of gardening, but I had no specific interest in plants per se until college when a friend introduced me to orchids.”
Greg Griffis began his orchid career in 2010 as the Grower for Parkside Orchid Nursery, one of the leading retail orchid nurseries in the US, growing many different genera. From there he moved to work for Hilo Orchid Farm, Hawaii in 2011, one of the highest quality and largest wholesale orchid producers in the US, working with Paphiopedilum, Intergeneric Oncidiinae, and Miltoniopsis. In 2015 Greg began working as the orchid grower at Longwood Gardens, one of the leading US orchid collections, specializing in historic Cattleya, Disa, the Habenaria alliance, Intergeneric Oncidiinae, terrestrial orchids, and many other common genera.
There, he initiated hybridizing programs in the Habenaria alliance, Cattleya alliance, Intergeneric Oncidiinae, Paphiopedilum, Masdevallia, Disa, and more.
In 2025 Greg began his tenure as the Curator of the Eric Young Orchid Foundation, where he looks forward to advancing hybridizing and education in the orchid world.
Come with us on an exciting journey as we learn about the Eric Young Orchid Foundation, its work in hybridizing, and the outlook for the future! We will talk about hybridizing trends at the Foundation, our new projects and research, and the culture for the primary genera that we hybridize.
Don’t forget to bring along your blooming plants for this month’s show table. It’s always exciting to see what’s coming into bloom, looking forward to an awesome show table! See you there!
Please print and fill out the ID card for the show table here