October 2008 http://www.gardenersutopia.com/GCOS/
Officers:
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President: |
Alexa Noel |
Program
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Larry
Sanford |
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Vice-president
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Ron Miller |
Show Chair: |
Pat June |
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Secretary: |
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Members-at-large: |
Mark
Paul, Dana White |
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Treasurer: |
Margaret
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Linda Knab |
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September’s
program is by Darin Clapp on “Phalaenopsis in India”. The beginners program will be at 7:00 on
“Bringing in Your Plants” by Larry Sanford. Raffle tickets are $1 each or 6
tickets for $5. Orchidfest - Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, September 5, 6 and 7 Over
the summer, Stan Better built a novel exhibit for our society to display at
the Mid-America Orchid Congress -- an open greenhouse with arched roof from
which plant can be placed on benches, hung from the roof and placed inside
and out. It has space for a lot of orchids - big plants (of
which we didn't have a lot. But it was an exciting departure from our
usual exhibit and it showed well in the space at Kings Island. Here are
my apologies in advance for any plants not mentionned below which received
ribbons. And thank everyone who helped Stan
Better, Vickie Neubauer and Dan and Ann Tsui with setting up the
exhibit or who provided plants. Any plants not mentioned here will be
covered in next month's newsletter or listed on the web site. The
exhibit took second place, behind the Miami Valley Orchid Society, which won
the AOS Show Trophy - kudos to both societies actually. I have
been to a number of MAOC's in the last couple years and our respective
exhibits set a high bar for quality. Jan
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Central Ohio Orchid
Society Annual Fall Show & Sale at the Franklin Park Conservatory 1777 E. Broad Street,
Columbus, OH 43203 November 1 - 2, 2008 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Visit http://show.coosinfo.info/
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March 14-15 2009 |
GCOS Spring Show |
Krohn Conservatory |
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Alexa Noel “ History of Orchid Culture and
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Kentucky
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The Kentucky Orchid
Society Show was held two weeks ago in Louisville, barely enough time to catch
our breath after the MAOC but Steve Helbling's driftwood made a road trip and
helped the society exhibit garner the AOS Show Trophy. The exhibit was
set up by Larry Sanford, Steve Helbling, Alexa Noel and Jan Yates and, apart
from pinching a few fingers getting the backdrops set up, all went
well. When the exhibit was mostly finished, Steve and I
decided that the right side of the exhibit was a little light on plants so we
went shopping at the sales table: I bought a phal which I entered in the
white with markings category (and it placed second). The
ribbon-winning plants are listed below: Larry
Sanford S.
coccinea Blue,
Class Trophy Brsdm.
Nittany Gold 'Patience' HCC/AOS Red Cyr.
macranthum Red Onc.
Highland 'Jesse' HCC/AOS Blue Wils.
Petite
Jean Red Odm.
Q'uistrum 'Lyoth Angel' AM/AOS Blue Oda.
Baross Valley White Masd.
John Swind Red Steve
Helbling Lc. Paul
Groneck
Blue, Class Trophy
Paph. adductum Blue Paph.Yellow
Tiger Blue, Class Trophy and
awarded an AM/AOS Paph.
Hsinying Light Year x Dark
Force Blue Phrag
Ouaisne Blue,
Class Trophy and the President's Trophy (given by the
KOS president to the plant he or she considers Best in Show) Phrag.
Jason Fischer
Blue Phrag.
Red Lightning Blue Dtps.
Sogo Domei White, plus awarded
an HCC/AOS Pecteilis
hawkesiana Red Sngl.
longifolia Red Jan
Yates Dtps.
Desert Heat x Newberry
Parfait Red Rick and Alexa
Noel Cyc.
herrenhusanum Blue, Class Trophy Christieara vietnamica Blue, Class Trophy As you can tell from the
list, two of Steve's plants received AOS quality awards; the salmon-colored
Phrag. Ouaisne was the focal plant in the exhibit. One other
plant of note which was in Russ Vernon's New Vision Orchids exhibit was the
largest Habenaria medusae which I have seen. Multiple flower
spikes and it received a much-deserved AOS cultural award. |
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Plant
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AOS Judging of plants is
done at the shows listed under Nearby Shows as well as at the regularly
scheduled judging sessions listed immediately at right. These sessions begin at 1:00 p.m. at the
Civic Garden Center. You are welcome
to bring a plant to be judged or just to observe the judging. Be a little early; plant registration is
from Noon to 1:00 p.m. |
November
9, 2008 December
14, 2008 |
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Internet The GCOS web site is http://www.gardenersutopia.com/GCOS/. The MidAmerica Orchid Congress Website: http://www.midamericanorchids.org/ Newsletter Circulation Policy
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