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June 2016 Overtures – The Newsletter of the Orchid Society of the Ozarks 1 June News! June meeting is 4 th Sunday, June 26 July meeting is 3 rd Sunday, July 17 Facebook – please like us if you haven’t, we’re over 600! June meeting Our speaker this month is orchid artist and conservationist Charles Hess. You may have seen Charles’s watercolor paintings of orchids in exhibits at SWROGA shows in recent years. Charles will speak to us about orchid conservation, and he donates all proceeds from his paintings and talks to organizations with proven track records in rainforest and habitat preservation. Fall show in Kansas City OSO will be supporting our friends in Kansas City at their show September 24-25. Keep an eye on your plants, please, with an eye toward what you might be able to send. This is a chance to show off some of those plants that don’t flower in the spring during our “normal” show season, and although the show is 3 months away it’s not too soon to start grooming things that you know are fall bloomers! O v e r t u r e s A Communications Instrument for Society Members and Other Interested Parties Volume XXI Issue 6 June 2016 Stimulating interest in Orchids and their culture as a nonprofit, educational organization … The Orchid Society of the Ozarks meets the 3rd Sunday of each month. Annual dues are $10.00 for individuals and $15.00 for joint membership. President: Lois Geren [email protected] Vice-president: Shari Loftis [email protected] Membership: Trudy Pickett [email protected] Editor: Steve Marak [email protected] What’s inside: June News p. 1 Shows & Judgings p. 2 OSO judging p. 2 May pictures p. 3 OKSshow pictures p. 5 Lois’s Musings p. 7 WSOTM p. 8 What’s Ahead p. 8

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Page 1: June News p. 1 O v e r t u r e sFacebook – please like us if you haven’t, we’re over 600! June meeting Our speaker this month is orchid artist and conservationist harles Hess

June 2016 Overtures – The Newsletter of the Orchid Society of the Ozarks 1

June News!

June meeting is 4th Sunday, June 26 July meeting is 3rd Sunday, July 17 Facebook – please like us if you haven’t, we’re over 600!

June meeting

Our speaker this month is orchid artist and conservationist Charles Hess. You may have seen Charles’s watercolor paintings of orchids in exhibits at SWROGA shows in recent years. Charles will speak to us about orchid conservation, and he donates all proceeds from his paintings and talks to organizations with proven track records in rainforest and habitat preservation.

Fall show in Kansas City OSO will be supporting our friends in Kansas City at their show September 24-25. Keep an eye on your plants, please, with an eye toward what you might be able to send. This is a chance to show off some of those plants that don’t flower in the spring during our “normal” show season, and although the show is 3 months away it’s not too soon to start grooming things that you know are fall bloomers!

O v e r t u r e s A Communications Instrument for Society Members and Other Interested Parties

Volume XXI Issue 6

June 2016

Stimulating interest in

Orchids and their culture as

a nonprofit, educational

organization …

The Orchid Society of the Ozarks meets

the 3rd Sunday of each month. Annual

dues are $10.00 for individuals and

$15.00 for joint membership.

President: Lois Geren

[email protected]

Vice-president: Shari Loftis

[email protected]

Membership: Trudy Pickett

[email protected]

Editor: Steve Marak

[email protected]

What’s inside: June News p. 1

Shows & Judgings p. 2 OSO judging p. 2 May pictures p. 3 OKSshow pictures p. 5 Lois’s Musings p. 7

WSOTM p. 8 What’s Ahead p. 8

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June 2016 Overtures – The Newsletter of the Orchid Society of the Ozarks 2

Upcoming Shows & Judgings Around Our Region

July 9, 2016

Mid-America Judging Center monthly judging, Riverchase, Fenton, Missouri (in conjunction with the OSOGSL seminar)

July 9, 2016 Baton Rouge Orchid Society Annual Show & Sale, Baton Rouge Garden Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

July 16, 2016 Great Plains Judging Center monthly judging, Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas

August 13, 2016 Mid-America Judging Center monthly judging, Room 175, Commerce Bank Education Building, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri

August 14, 2016 The Orchid Society of Greater St. Louis Annual Orchid Auction, Beaumont Room, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri

August 20, 2016 Great Plains Judging Center monthly judging, Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas

From our Judging Committee Chair

Members, please bring your favorite blooming plants to our monthly meetings and enter them in the judging competition! In addition to plants being judged by your peers, and awarded ribbons, you will receive points toward year end prizes as a reward for your participation. Last year at the December meeting gift certificates totaling $140.00 were distributed to members accumulating the most overall points (1st through 4th places), and certificates to those with the most points in each plant class. Flowers are judged against standards for the class, but may get added consideration for symmetry, and difficulty to grow. In each class 1st place earns 10 points, 2nd place earns 5 points, 3rd place earns 2 points, and the plant awarded plant of the month earns 15 points. In 2016, through April, only 11 members have entered plants in the monthly judging and so far, the members leading the point totals are those that entered the most plants. Paul Bowen [Your Newsletter Editor appreciates having pictures of member’s plants for the newsletter, so he also encourages you to bring your plants and enter them in judging!]

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June 2016 Overtures – The Newsletter of the Orchid Society of the Ozarks 3

May OSO meeting pictures ….

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More May OSO meeting pictures ….

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Oklahoma Orchid Society show pictures ….

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More Oklahoma Orchid Society show pictures ….

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June 2016 Overtures – The Newsletter of the Orchid Society of the Ozarks 7

Lois’s Musings!

It’s hot!! My new greenhouse still has a learning curve. The slick puddles on the floor have been

cleared, but now I have a heat problem. I have a 50% shade cloth outside over the entire ceiling, but

this one has much more southern

exposure than my original

greenhouse, so it’s been heating up

pretty good lately. Luckily, it’s only

about 1/3 full, since the pergola has

filled up with happy plants that have

been repotted and poisoned. ( Death

to bugs!! )* Since it’s only partially

full, we’re blocking off half of the

sunniest space. Hopefully that will

give the cooler a big boost. I’m also

getting another 50% shade cloth to

drape over the west wall. That’s where I have my Vandas (Ray Potts has no worries about

competition!) and they’ve been liking the extra light, but not the extra heat. My goal is the high 80’s

to low 90’s. Why did I never take a greenhouse management course?

Speaking of repotting, I’ve really been running through my media mixes. I try to keep a large plastic

container of large, medium and small mixes all the time, but have had to remix all of them this year. If

the club works up a bulk order of bark, I’m definitely in. I try to repot after blooming, and I’m mostly

up to date, but the midsummer bloomers will still have to be repotted and divided when they finish,

so things kind of never come to an end in that department. I’ve been doing a fair amount of dividing

this year and hope to have several nice starts to bring to the auction in September.

Remember also that in September, Kansas City will be having their show and start prepping possible

bloomers. A late show like that gives some plants that never bloom for the spring shows a chance for

well-deserved admiration. That should take care of my recent show withdrawal symptoms.

I found this website by Sue Bottom in the St. Augustine Orchid Society’s web page detailing

poisons and how much to use for orchids. Most listings don’t consider orchids, just general

plants that could be hardier than the orchids. It’s nice to have comprehensive and specific

orchid info. Sue Bottom has a regular column in Orchids Mag.

http://www.staugorchidsociety.org/PDF/PesticidesforOrchidPests.pdf

Lois

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ORCHID SOCIETY OF THE OZARKS

President: Lois Geren

16116 Pin Oak Drive

Fayetteville, AR 72704

[email protected]

479-521-5311

Visit www.oso-web.org

and click the “Join” link

Dues $10 individual, $15 joint

Editor: Steve Marak

3460 Roma Dr

Springdale, AR 72762

[email protected]

479-248-6683

A non-profit, educational organization

stimulating interest in orchids and

their culture.

On the web at:

www.oso-web.org

Webmaster: Bruce Brown

[email protected]

On Facebook:

@

http://www.facebook.com/pages

/Orchid-Society-of-the-

Ozarks/166606350108921

Like us, post your pictures or

comments, joint the community!

Orchid Web Site of the Month: http://www.orchidartbycharleshess.com/

Our web site this month is that of our speaker, Charles Hess. He has extensive information on conservation efforts in various places around the world and links to conservation organizations. Also check out the gallery of watercolor paintings of orchids!

What’s Ahead …

June 26, 2016 – note 4th Sunday!

NTI, 709 S. Old Missouri Rd., Springdale, AR

Meeting: 1:30

Program: Orchid artist and conservationist

Charles Hess will speak to us about orchid

conservation.

July 17, 2016

NTI, 709 S. Old Missouri Rd., Springdale, AR

Meeting: 1:30

Program: TBA