{"id":2567,"date":"2026-01-02T14:09:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2026-01-02T14:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:09:55","slug":"january-14th-meeting-at-the-cheshire-senior-center-join-us-for-a-talk-on-the-eric-young-orchid-foundation-with-greg-griffis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/?p=2567","title":{"rendered":"January 14th Meeting at the Cheshire Senior Center join us for a talk on the Eric Young Orchid Foundation with Greg Griffis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greg Griffis will be Presenting on the Eric Young Orchid Foundation<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cattleya gaskelliana <\/em>at Longwood Gardens in the Orchid House<\/p>\n

Meeting Date:<\/strong> Wednesday, January 14th<\/sup> at the Cheshire Senior Center.\u00a0 Doors open at 6:30pm for socializing and the meeting starts at 7pm.<\/p>\n

The Cheshire Senior Center is located at: 240 Maple Ave, Cheshire, CT 06410<\/p>\n

Presentation<\/strong>:<\/strong> The Eric Young Orchid Foundation – Updates and Future Outlook<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

There, he initiated hybridizing programs in the Habenaria alliance, Cattleya alliance, Intergeneric Oncidiinae, Paphiopedilum, Masdevallia, Disa, and more.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget to bring along your blooming plants for this month\u2019s show table. It\u2019s always exciting to see what\u2019s coming into bloom, looking forward to an awesome show table! See you there!<\/p>\n

Please print and fill out the ID card for the show table here<\/a><\/p>\n

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