Fort Lauderdale Orchid Society
Orchid Show: Orchid Show and Sale January 9, 10, & 11, 2026
Due to the great success of our July Ramble, the Fort Lauderdale Orchid Society has planned a November event for Caribe Orchids in Homestead. You may remember Diane and Robert Randall from the annual FLOS show.
Signup at the Society’s monthly meeting or contact Allen Cogar at (954)799-9998 or tacogar@gmail.com.
Our next ramble is on Saturday April 11, 2015. We will be leaving from Christ Lutheran Church at 8:00 a.m. sharp.
We’ll be visiting
– Hennington Farms – orchids, orchids, and more orchids
– Stelmar Gardens – orchids and exotics
– On The Rocks – bromiliads, exotics, koi ponds, a garden visit not to miss!
– Allen’s secret choice 🙂
It’s $30 per person. Sign up at the Society’s monthly meeting or contact Allen Cogar at (954)799-9998 or tacogar@gmail.com.
Bring a lunch and a box or crate to hold your purchases.
Our next ramble is on Saturday April 16, 2016. We will be leaving from Christ Lutheran Church at 8:00 a.m. sharp and returning between 4:00 and 5:00.
We’ll be visiting:
It’s $30 per person. Sign up at the Society’s monthly meeting or contact Allen Cogar at (954)799-9998 or tacogar@gmail.com.
Bring a lunch and a box or crate to hold your purchases.
If this is your first ramble with FLOS, check out our ramble overview page.
We sponsor three or four bus rambles each year. These rambles help members get acquainted and visitors usually end up joining the society. We offer three types of rambles, with each one supplying a fun outing for enthusiastic orchid hobbyists with a desire to learn and buy new plants. See the ramble page for more details: https://www.flos.org/wp/society-activities/rambles/
Our next ramble will be scheduled soon!
Jill Godfrey will be speaking on “Thin-Leafed Orchids of South Florida: Stanhopeas, Sobralias, and Calanthes.” Jill is a Miami Native who started growing orchids at the age of 12 and joined the North Miami Amateur Orchid Club. She worked for the firm of Jones and Scully when they were located on the Miami River in the late ‘70’s.
Jill currently is a member of Orchid Society of Coral Gables and Coalition for Orchid Species. She continues her orchid education at Florida- Caribbean Judging Center where she has been an AOS judge for 20 years. She is the judg-ing center’s Chairman. Her favorite orchid genera is Cattleyas, but she also grows Nobile Dendrobiums, Callista Dendrobiums, and a wide variety of species which include Calan-the, Sobralia and Stanhopea.
If you have ever had an interest in the orchids that bloom from the bottom of the pot (Stanhopeas) or the other plants that have thin-leaves, this will be a great lecture. Jill is very knowledgeable and even if you are not familiar with these orchids, you will be by the end of the evening!
Join us for an evening of learning about these wonderful orchids.
Mac Rivenbark from Mac’s Orchids will be presenting during our April meeting on Dendrobiums. Join us for an evening of learning about these wonderful orchids.
It’s that time of the year again! Our June meeting will be a Movie Night: “Wild Orchid Man In The Mountains Of Amazonas”. Stig Dalström takes us through the Peruvian Andes in search of rare and endangered orchids.
Mark your calendar for June 21, the first day of summer for an OVERNIGHT RAMBLE!!! A luxury coach will take our group to the West coast of Florida to visit:
-Rob Palmer at Sun Bulb
-Marie Selby Gardens
-Deroose in Apopka
-other stops to be announced
We meet at the church where we have our meetings.
Our bus leaves at 8AM Saturday morning, returns Sunday afternoon. Bring a bagged lunch for Saturday.
Check our newsletter or contact Captain Allen— tacogar@gmail.com—for more details.
Dee and Jessie Vance will be our July speakers. They will presenting on “The history, benefits and uses of old growth cypress wood”.
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.