Sunday, January 18, 2009

January NCOS meeting

We had reasonable attendance for today's orchid club. Plenty of room for improvement, though, in my opinion.

At issue for several members were:
i) the cold weather,
ii) traffic due to inauguration events on the capitol mall,
iii) attending inaugural events on the capitol mall, and
iv) televised football games.

Our speaker was Tom Mirenda from the Smithsonian, who described his visit to Taiwan this last March, and the Taiwanese orchid industry. Their ability to produce a large quantity of orchids is both amazing and sobering.

Below are examples of club member's orchids on display today:
Brassovola Little Stars, exhibitor Gene Schurg














Bardendrum Nanboh Pixy 'Cherry Moon', exhibitor Gene Schurg














Phrag. Lutz Rollke, exhibitor Gene Schurg














Dendrobium Sea Mary 'Snow King', exhibitor Marie Soutar


















Bc. Maikai 'Louise', exhibitor Marie Soutar

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