{"id":482,"date":"2015-10-25T10:48:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T14:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctorchids.org\/?p=482"},"modified":"2015-10-25T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T15:55:22","slug":"november-cos-meeting-cheshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"COS Meeting &#8211; Cheshire Nov. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday\u00a0November 11, 2015\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheshire Senior Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>240 Maple Ave, Cheshire, CT 06410<\/p>\n<p><strong>doors open at 7:00 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Greg Griffis<\/strong> is our speaker this month and\u00a0his talk is &#8220;<strong>12 Orchids Everyone Should Own<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greg Griffis first became aware of orchids in 2009. He first heard about them through a college friend, who had always admired orchids. Studying at <!--?xml:namespace prefix = \"st1\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/-->West Chester University, from which he graduated with a degree in Music Education, put him in close proximity to Longwood Gardens. He attended the 2010\u00a0Longwood Orchid Show where he purchased his first orchid.\u00a0One plant quickly became twenty or so, and before long he was hooked. In 2010 he visited Parkside Orchid Nursery for the first time, and by Summer 2011 he was working part time for Tom Purviance and John Salventi. He studied under their tutelage while working for them, and when they sold the nursery in 2012, he was hired by the new owners as the Grower and Manager of Parkside Orchid Nursery. He managed Parkside for one year, before leaving to grow orchids in Hawaii. He worked for Hilo Orchid Farm for more than a year, spending a large amount of time working with Paphiopedilum, as well as Intergeneric Oncidiinae and Miltoniopsis. At the beginning of 2015 Greg began working as the orchid grower at Longwood Gardens, where he remains today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday\u00a0November 11, 2015\u00a0 Cheshire Senior Center 240 Maple Ave, Cheshire, CT 06410 doors open at 7:00 pm Greg Griffis is our speaker this month and\u00a0his talk is &#8220;12 Orchids Everyone Should Own&#8221; Greg Griffis first became aware of orchids in 2009. He first heard about them through a college friend, who had always admired orchids. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}