Jim Watts will be our September speaker. He will be presenting on “Leafless Orchids”.
Come a little early for this meeting… we will be distributing presales show tickets, and we have a special surprise too!
Jim Watts has been growing orchids for 15 years and is an Accredited Judge for the AOS. His small collection of 400 orchids is mostly species. One of his first orchids was an equitant oncidium, now known as Tolumnia. He still has a large collection of them despite the best (worst) efforts of Hurricane Wilma. The leafless genera is one of his favorite orchid types and Hurricane Wil-ma was less gentle with the this group. Jim’s collection was reduced from 17 species to 6. Currently he is rebuilding his collection, but it is difficult to find many of the species. One of his new interests is vanilla, especially Chiloschista ramifera since he found some leafless species of vanilla including two leafless Florida natives. He now has 12 species of vanilla, including 5 leafless types.
Join us as we learn more about the wonderful Dendrophylax linden or the “Ghost Orchid” amongst other wonderful types of leafless varieties of orchids.