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Dennis Pearl and Joe Ortlieb were fortunate enough to go to Burma with RF Orchids.
This month they will be our guest speakers with a slide show of their trip. ANDREA NIESSEN ANDREA NIESSEN was born in Cali, Colombia. She was schooled in Columbia and the US achieving a Master´s of Science in Virology from the University of Florida in Gainesville USA. Andrea has lectured about Colombian Orchids throughout the world and with her husband has maintained an orchid nursery since 1989, ORQUIDEAS DEL VALLE LTDA. It has has grown to include two retail shops, one in downtown Cali and the other in Ginebra, two nurseries, one warm growing and the other for cool growing plants and laboratory facilities for seed flasking. ORQUIDEAS DEL VALLE LTDA. has attended many National and International Shows and also six World Orchid Conferences and European Orchid Conferences exhibiting and selling the beautiful and diverse orchid species from Colombia. http://www.orquivalle.com/home.htm Larry Cox acquired his first orchid, a cattleya, almost forty years ago. His second was a paphiopedilum, Paph. Maudiae ‘Magnificum.’ The cattleya is long gone, but he still has a piece of the paph. When he began with paphs, he com- monly heard, “You can’t grow those in South Florida,” but the first one lived and bloomed, and the paphiopedilum collection continued to grow. In the mid 1980’s most of the other orchids were sold or given away, all for the love of paphs. In 1989 he moved from his South Miami residence to a more spacious property in the farming district of southern Miami-Dade County where he built his dream greenhouse of 3000 square feet. He has suffered setbacks, such as hurricane An- drew in 1992, but with perseverance and with the discovery of new paph spe- cies ,and the consequent new hybrids, Larry’s love of paphiopedilums has been re- newed over and over again. In 1983 Larry won his first AOS award for Paph. Maudiae coloratum ‘Elektra’ AM/AOS. Since then his orchids have earned forty
AOS awards, including four FCC’s. Six years ago, Larry retired from thirty-seven years as a teacher, the last fif- teen teaching Advanced Placement high school English . He now spends his time reading, traveling, maintaining his property and, of course, growing paphs. Larry has experimented with other orchid genera and has found success with lycastes, phragmipediums, and pescatoreas. He has even rediscovered the wonder of cattleyas, particularly species. Thanh Nguyen Paphiopedilums
Thanh is an owner-operator of Springwater Orchids (Melbourne , FL). He is an engi- neer by trade, but also has been collecting and growing orchids for over 25 years. His orchid business began in 2001, mainly selling on the internet but gradually moved to orchid shows in recent years. Although he grows and sells all orchids genera, his forte has always been the genus of paphiopedilum. He collects fine plants; grows, sells, breeds, and enjoys sharing his experiences with his customers and colleagues. His passion in paphs is reflected in award winning plants and an on-going paphs breeding program using local lab work. His goals are to bring the excellence of a paphs breeding program back to America and augment the enthusiasm of paphs growing by way of sharing his growing experi- ence and educational programs via shows and society speeches. The future of paphs, or orchids in general he believes, lies in the hands of growers who are willing to experiment and willing to try something new and uniquely so... sup- port your American breeders and buy their seedlings! As a child, Patsy West collected tulumnias and Onc. Lucayanums with her Father at Hawksbill Creek on Grand Bahama Island in the 1960’s, which they imported under permit to their home in Ft. Lauderdale. From 2005-2009 she was president of Eclectic Orchids Design which specialized in orchid themed clothing, art, and home furnishings. With the Design Line, she was a vendor at the World Orchid Conference in Miami in 2008. During those years, she was also half owner of a cold-growing cymbidium farm on the Big Island, Hawaii. Located in the Puna District, 15 miles out of Hilo at 1,600 feet up Kilauea Volcano. The cut flower business at Mountain View had been established by a Baron and Baroness from Germany in the 1960’s.
Her 2005 exhibit at the Fort Lauderdale Orchid Society won a First Place Ribbon for the Manatee Orchid Society of Bradenton. She purchased the Ken Kone orchid collection of 1,700 plants that year. They have now been released and are growing in trees at her family property, Tide Creek, a host location on the 2011 FLOS Ramble. By profession, Ms. West is a noted ethnohistorian and University Press of Florida author on the Seminole and Miccosukee Indians of Florida. PROGRAM TOPIC: A stroke of good luck took Patsy West to Ecuador February 2011 where she was introduced to the family of noted Ecuadorian orchidist and collector Alfonso Pozo. He and his daughter Monica have established The Orchid and Cloud Forest at Garupampa, a natural preserve of over 123 acres of native species: orchids, bro- meliads, ferns, and wild flowers at 8,600 -9,600 feet. When not on the trails photographing orchids in the wild, awesome, ever changing Andean vistas and spec- tacular sunsets can be viewed from the Lodge. Her article “Visiting Alfonso Pozo” was in the May 2012 issue of Orchids magazine of the American Orchid Society. She has just returned from her 4th trip to Ecuador and will present a program on Orchids at Garupamba Our speaker for the June meeting will be Axel Cahiz with Amazonia Orchids. Axel stud- ied Bio-tech engineering at Clemson University and has been growing orchids for a little more than 30 years. Axel is a second generation orchid grower, with his father starting the business in Venezuela. Amazonia Orchids, Inc. opened its doors in 1992.
Amazonia Orchids own and operate their own lab where they do seedling and cloning of orchids. Amazonia Orchids, Inc. has around 200,000 plants plus the ones in the lab. They specialize in Cattleyas Species and its hybrids and also do some genetic studies on the orchids. One of Axel’s plants was awarded with Reserve Grand Champion in 19th WOC in Miami Florida. His presentation will be on the proper growing of Cattleyas. |
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