Fort Lauderdale Orchid Society
Orchid Renaissance: Orchid Show and Sale January 10, 11, & 12, 2025
Mac Rivenbark from Mac’s Orchids will be presenting during our March meeting on Dendrobiums. He and his wife, Helen, make frequent trips to the Philippines where they see many dens growing in situ. His talks are always informative and entertaining and we are glad to welcome him back.
Mac is a past president of FLOS and has served as auctioneer at many a FLOS Auction (always an October highlight!)
Roger Hammer will present our April program. “Wild Orchids of Florida”.
Roger Hammer served as Senior Interpretive Naturalist for Miami-Dade County Parks & Recreation for over 30 years. He is well known for his knowledge and entertaining, informative delivery of information about Central and South Florida’s native plants and natural communities. He has publish several field guides and books on the wildflowers and native plants of South Florida.
He has been the keynote speaker at the World Orchid Conference, keynote and session speaker at numerous Florida Native Plant Society conferences, and the invited speaker for innumerable garden and landscape events throughout the state. Roger has been a part-time instructor and field trip leader for Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden for more than 20 years. In 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctoral degree by Florida International University. He is the recipient of multiple conservation and education awards from Florida’s environmental community.
You can learn more about our speaker at his website: http://www.rogerlhammer.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.
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.
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.
Dee and Jessie Vance will be our July speakers. They will presenting on “The history, benefits and uses of old growth cypress wood”.
Our well known and beloved FLOS member, John Budree will be presenting on “Phalaenopsis Culture” for our August meeting.
Ramnarine John Budree, was born in Trinidad and migrated to Florida about fourteen years ago. In Trinidad, he grew many different types of or- chids and took part in collecting and showing at many shows, but there was always something more. He wanted to learn more about orchids, wanted more of a challenge. He wanted to grow and flower them, of course. So when he came to Florida, he got involved with orchids on a different level. Here he was able to grow all of those types of plants he could only read about and even meet all of those people that grew and wrote the articles that he had read in AOS magazines.
o he started on his journey/adventure. He started to go to many of the shows and what you do when you go to a show, YOU BUY ORCHIDS, which you know nothing about, in the hope you can grow or flower it [yea right]. He always liked Paphiopedilum but he was told he couldn’t grow them. This became a challenge to John and he found these plants very interesting as well. He met some of the biggest and the best at growing orchids, Jack Schendowich, Warren Kelly {Orchid World}, Bob Skully {Jones & Skully}, Mr. Frank Smith {Krull-Smith} and Sheldon Takasaki {Carmela Orchids}. These people really know how to grow orchids but not just orchids, Paphi- opedilum, Cattleya, Phalaenopsis, Dendrobium, and Oncidium, e.g.. Krull Smith has more AOS awards than any other orchid grower past or present.
At the 19 WOC., in Miami, in 2008, John had an opportunity to work with Frank Smith, an experienced excel- lent grower of Paphiopedilum, hybridizer, landscaper and designer. He tried to absorb as much of Frank Smith’s knowledge as possible, and did an exhibit on his own. After that, he started to grow many types of Paphs. and today he owns over 1750 as well as about 2000 other types of orchids. Of course, he says, he has also lost count of the ones he killed. In short he has been growing Orchids for about 30 years, from flask to flower and has accumulated about 30 AOS awards.
Our November speaker will be Craig Morel, curator of Pinecrest Gardens.) Craig will be presenting a program on Winterizing Your Orchid Collection.
The Fort Lauderdale Orchid Society congratulates Broward County on its 100th anniversary. We celebrated Broward 100 by giving away 100 Encyclia tampensis, a native orchid found throughout South Florida. Orchids are part of the natural beauty of our region and we want to help reintroduce them to our landscapes.
This orchid is easy to grow! We recommend putting it into a tree on your property, where it will thrive once it is established.
Now that you have your plant home, here’s how to take care of it. (hat tip to Tony Millet for care instructions 🙂 )
Questions? Ask for help! Email us at richackerman@gmail.com
Got it mounted? Flowered? Send us a picture!
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Our January program will be “Five Cattleyas for a Heritage Collection”, which was presented at the 30th WOC. It covers the history of Cattleya Hybridization in the 20th Century and how it was linked to the fashion world. It also includes an overview of how AOS judges Cattleyas.
Our speaker is Paul Wetter. Paul started in orchids in the late 1960’s when he was studying The Natural History of South Florida. Miami has been his home since childhood. He has been growing orchids, as a hobby ever since, with a special interest in epiphytic orchids in the subtropical garden. In his professional career, Paul, Professor Emeritus of the University of Miami School of Medicine, has been a pioneer in minimally invasive surgery and has numerous honors for his contributions to the field.
He is Chairman and Executive Director of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons(SLS), an organization he founded in 1989. SLS has 6,000 members worldwide and teaches physicians about new developments and safety in surgery. In 2009 he founded ORReady a world initiative to improve outcomes for six million patients worldwide. In 2003 Paul joined the West Palm Beach Judging Center where he is an Accredited AOS Judge. In 2011 he was a guest lecturer and Judge at the World Orchid Conference in Singapore