Melana Davison is AOS Accredited Judge that lives in Homestead with her husband Jim, also an accredited judge. They have an extensive and diverse orchid collection of over 5000 orchids. Melana is very active in the South Florida orchid community holding seats on two different orchid societies. She is the current president of the Orchid Society of Coral Gables and of the South Dade Amateur Orchid Club and is involved with the South Florida Orchid Society, Pan Am Orchid Society, Eastern Airlines Orchid Society, and the Coalition for Orchid Species.
Melana has the last 10 years run The Orchidiva. A company responsible for the care of thousands of orchids. She grows, blooms, cures, diagnoses and pots and repots all species of orchids, she understands the special needs of muliple orchids and hybrids, and can cares for the most finicky collections.
For our meeting she will be doing a talk on ‘The Four Horsemen: mount your nobilor, schilleriana, Walkeriana, and aclandiae.
You will have better success with these four sometimes-challenging Cattleya species after this talk!