Francisco Miranda We welcome Francisco Miranda as our guest speaker this month. Francisco’s presentation will focus on cattleya species and their habitats and his talk is titled “The genus Cattleya in Brazil”. Cattleya species can be found throughout Brazil and Francisco will show examples from most of the major regions where they occur. Francisco was […]
Fred Clarke We welcome back Fred Clarke as our guest speaker this month. Fred will discuss the fundamentals of growing orchids and explore some advanced techniques. Orchid plant culture will be explained and techniques on how to maximize growth and flowering will be reviewed. Fred says If you do 80% of what you’re supposed to
Peter Lin’s presentation “12 Months of Orchids” is a fast-paced PowerPoint presentation will show you how to build an orchid collection to have blooming plants for each month of the year. Peter started growing orchids over 30 years ago, but stopped to focus on school and starting a career. It wasn’t until 11 years ago that
Peter TobiasThe Palomar Orchid Society is pleased to welcome Peter Tobias as our guest speaker this month. He will be giving a talk on “Traveling in Brazil with the Orchid Conservation Alliance”. Peter is a member of the SDCOS and also President of the Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA), which he co-founded in 2006 with some
Ron ParsonsWe are fortunate to be able to welcome back Ron Parsons as guest speaker for our February Meeting. Ron will be speaking about his experience traveling to Columbia in August of 2014 and the many orchids he encountered there. His trip included visits to nurseries, forest reserves, and a national park as well as