1June Speaker

2COS OitP Expedition

Upcomming Events

3The Orchid

Experiance

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June 2018

June Speaker: Tanya LamOrchids With Long Lasting Blooms and their Care

Tanya has been growing orchids since 1997. She hasbeen creative in adjusting her growing methods toraise her orchids with their healthiest rooting

systems, and in turn enjoy their best performances inflowering. For most of her orchid growing years, her job

required extensive travel, which required her to have goodplanning and orchid mixes that stay moist exactly 7 days.

Tanya created her own mixes to fit her weekly wateringschedule and condition. Tanya always looks for ways to improveher greenhouse operations and improve growing conditions.Orchid has become Tanya’s obsession and second profession.Tanya has seen orchids growing in their habitats in Australia,Bahamas, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Singapore,Thailand, and Vietnam. She loves to travel and dreams to visitmany more orchid habitats in the world.

Tanya grows many species and hybrids in San Jose, Californiawith a collection of over 2,000 plants and over 50 genera. Herspecial interests are psychopsis, dendrobium, epidendrum,

paphiopedilum,encyclia, cattleya,vandacous, andangraecoids.

In order to provide a selection of treats at our meetings, we are asking members with

last names that start with the letter S thru Z to bring refreshments to the next meeting.

Laelia gouldiana in John'sgreenhouse

COS Officers

President

John OConnellVP Program

Jerry Loomis

Recording

Secretary

Janette Ford

Treasurer

Daniel Bellem

Directors

Janette Ford

Carol Easton

Susan Holm

Lesley Olsen

Carolyn Salmon

Jeanie Sturges

P.O. Box 223462

Carmel, CA

93922­3462

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Upcoming Events

June6/4 Monday COS June Meeting

6/9 Orchid Digest Speakers Day 'Orchids in the Wild' Noon - 8pm Huntington Library, Art Collections and BotanicalGardens San Marino, CA

JulyThere will be no regular COS meeting in July

7/21 Saturday COS Orchids in the Park Expedition

7/21-22 Orchids in ther Park 10-5 San Francisco County FairBuilding 9th Av. at Lincoln Way Golden Gate Park, SanFrancisco

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COS Orchids in the Park ExpeditionIf you missed POE (Pacific Orchid Exposition) you have anotherchance to see a show in San Francisco Orchids In the Park is notas large as POE, but 18 vendors is still larger then any othershow except POE. This years vendors are:

Andy’s Orchids, Amsoil/Aggrand (Fertilizer), Asbell’s Orchids,Barsch Tropicals, Brookside Orchids, Calwest Tropical Supply, D& D Flowers, Divine Orchids, Ecuagenera (Ecuador), HangingGardens, Mundiflora (Ecuador), Orchids and Garden, OrchidDesign, Orchids of Los Osos,Phrao Orchids Nursery(Thailand), SeedEngei (Japan), Ten ShinGardens (Taiwan).

COS members who want togo to the show meet at theSeaside Home Depotparking lot, near thestreet, at 8AM SaturdayJuly 21 and we will car poolup to the show.

Encyclia patens in John's greenhouse

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The Orchid ExperienceLots of people grow a few orchids, theyadmire the pretty blooms and neverthink twice about the wider, wilder,world of orchids that waits just beyondthose Phal's on the windowsill or theCymbidiums on the porch. A few ofthese casual growers will have theircuriosity tweaked, maybe by a friend, ashow, or an exhibit. Once roused, thecurious can immerse themselves in awealth of information on the Internet,books, and at their friendly local orchidsociety. As president of the friendlylocal society, I, and the rest of theboard, try to bring you a variety ofactivities to make your orchidexperience as fulfilling as possible. Butall of our meetings, speakers, raffletables, social events, and outings areonly part of the full orchid experience.So here are a few more things to add toyour orchid bucket list that you can'tfind at a COS meeting, the orchid worldis a very big and interesting place.

• Go to some shows:

• POE (late February). The biggestand best show around. Iyou haven't been, you willbe amazed.

• Santa BarbaraInternational Orchid Show(March). Quite differentfrom POE.

• Orchids in the Park (July)a fairly large sale with afew exhibits.

• Visit some orchid vendors:

• While in Santa Barbara,visit Santa Barbara OrchidEstate (SBOE) and Cal-

Orchid (across the street from SBOE).

• Get up to Pacifica to see DanNewman or some of the othergrowers at the Shell Dancegreenhouse complex.

• Make a pilgrimage to Encinitas andAndy's Orchids. You will be amazed.Andy takes credit cards, but takecash, it's safer.

• Visit some private greenhouses.Several of our members havegreenhouses, attend one of ourorchid happy hours and see them foryour self.

• Join the AOS.

• Visit an orchid collection at abotanical garden. The SFConservatory of Flowers has a smallcollection. There are big collections inSt. Louis, Atlanta and South Florida.

• Attend a show gala. POE has a goodone with lots of wine.

• Grow a great plant and take it to AOSjudging.

• Get an AOS award for one of yourplants.

Laelia superbiens in John's Greenhouse

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C A R M E L O R C H I D S O C I E T Y2018 Membership ApplicationPlease make checks payable to the Carmel Orchid Society and mail to: Carmel Orchid Society ­

Membership c/o Carol Easton, P.O. Box 223462 Carmel CA 93922­3462

Please print

Date

Name

Address

City State zip

Telephone

Email address

If you were referred by a current member, please provide

his/her name

Renewal _ New Member _

Member of the American Orchid Society _

Membership Receive Newsletter

Type Via E­Mail Via US Mail

Single $25 _ $30 _

Couple $35 _ $40 _

Vendor $35 _ $40 _

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• Learn more about judging byvolunteering to be a clerk at a showwith AOS judging. It's a real learningexperience.

• Attend a World Orchid Conference(WOC) at least once in your life. AWOC is held ever 3 years (March2020 in, Taichung Tiawan) and makesPOE look small.

• Get an awarded plant named afteryou.

• Get an awarded hybrid named afteryou.

• Get a species named after you.

• Build your own greenhouse and stockit with a thousand or so of yourfavourite plants.

• Visit orchids where they live: Brazil,Peru, Ecuador, Indonesia...

• Get an article published by an orchidmagazine.

• Create a new hybrid and bloom it.

• Volunteer for a local show.

• Volunteer for your societies board(hint, hint...).

• Read some orchid literature:

• The Orchid Thief by Jane Orlean

• Orchid Feaver by Eric Hansen

• Any of the Nero Wolf mysteries byRex Stout

• Orchid Territory by Mary Motes

There is of course more, If you havesome thing you would like to add dropme an email, I may want to add it to myown list.

John

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COS Board of DirectorsMeeting May 14, 2018Meeting called to order at 7:20 atJohn’s house.

Members Present: John O’Conell,Carol Easton, Daniel Bellem, andJanette Ford. There was not a quorumof board members.

Previous Minutes: Minutes from theApril 23 meeting were presented andaccepted by acclamation.

Treasurer’s Report: Daniel reportedthat the balance at the beginning ofMarch was $936l.48 and at the end ofthe month was $8916.48. Besidesregular monthly expenses, liabilityinsurance and post off expenses werepaid. Balance at the beginning of Aprilwas $8916.48 and $8930.48 at the endof the month. Extra income for themonth was due to the sale of plantsdonated to the society by Alan Rossing.Thanks to Alan for “thinning down hiscollection”.

V.P. Report: Jerry has madearrangements for Tanya Lam to speakin June.

We reviewed activities/speakers forlater in the year. In July we plan toorganize car pools to visit the Orchidsin the Park show in Golden Gate Parkon July21. In August, October andNovember we need to schedulespeakers. Carol will check with CelyCruz who has offered to host a BBQ tosee if she could host our BBQ on Sept.8.

Old Business:

Carol has sent letters to possiblevendors for the Orchid Show which will

be held October 26 and 27. So far thefollowing vendors plan to come: SueHamilton (Orchids and Gardens),Dennis Olivas (D and D Orchids),Asbell’s Orchids, Scott Collins (EchoValley Orchids), Joannie Linares (beadjewelry), Jerry Loomis (wookworking),and Scarves for a Cause.

Carol will also contact members whochaired orchid show committees lastyear to see if they will help in the samepositions this year.

At the board meeting last month it wassuggested that we could have t-shirtsmade for volunteers at the show. Wewill present to the members at the Junemeeting to see if they would beinterested in buying t-shirts. COS maybe able to subsidize cost of shirts forvolunteers.

New Business:

Daniel said COS has been asked toshare a booth again at the MontereyCounty Fair on Sept. 1 (Saturday). Carolnoted that the Home Show in the fall isscheduled the same weekend as ourFall Show (last weekend in October).

Next meeting will be will be June 18 atCarol’s house.

Meeting adjourned at 8:20.

Respectfully submitted, Janette Ford

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