Fred Clarke:

“New Hybrids with Catasetum, Cycnoches and Mormodes”

This talk will feature the new hybrids and breakthroughs in the hybridization of Catasetum, Cycnoches and Mormodes. Fred Clarke, owner of Sunset Valley Orchids in Vista, California, has been growing orchids for 30 years and hybridizing for 20 of those years. Although developing Cattleya hybrids has been his sustaining interest, he is also actively creating new Bulbophylum and Paphiopedilum hybrids plus some others to be named. His pioneering work in Catasetum intergeneric hybrids led to the development of several notable hybrids, most recently the grex, Fredclarkeara After Dark, which produced “the blackest flower ever witnessed”. Fred is an accredited AOS Judge in the Pacific South Judging Region.

Dr. Ron McHatton:

“Sex in the Greenhouse”

Dr. McHatton (a Chemist by training) is the current American Orchid Society (AOS) Director of Education and Regional Operations. He has been growing orchids for more than 43 years and during that time, has accumulated an eclectic collection of plants (in excess of 2500) representing a wide cross section of the Orchid family. His experience with growing orchids spans the spectrum of windowsill growing to commercial growing over several acres. Besides his volunteer work for the AOS, he is an accredited AOS Judge and has been a long time supporter of the Orchid Digest having served on its Board Of Directors and Executive Committee and as its President for three consecutive terms.

Dr. Henry Oakeley:

“Orchid Hunting in the Headwaters of the Amazon, Central Cordillera of Peru”

Dr. Henry Oakeley has been growing Lycastes. Idas and Anguloas for over 50 years. He holds the UK National Scientific Collection for these genera, and his latest book is available from www.oakeleybooks.co.uk. Dr. Oakeley was Chairman of the Royal Horticultural Society Orchid Committee from 1998 to 2007, is President of the Orchid Society of Great Britain, Research Associate of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Singapore Botanic Gardens and The Garden Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Clarke:

“New Hybrids with Catasetum, Cycnoches and Mormodes”

This talk will feature the new hybrids and breakthroughs in the hybridization of Catasetum, Cycnoches and Mormodes. Fred Clarke, owner of Sunset Valley Orchids in Vista, California, has been growing orchids for 30 years and hybridizing for 20 of those years. Although developing Cattleya hybrids has been his sustaining interest, he is also actively creating new Bulbophylum and Paphiopedilum hybrids plus some others to be named. His pioneering work in Catasetum intergeneric hybrids led to the development of several notable hybrids, most recently the grex, Fredclarkeara After Dark, which produced “the blackest flower ever witnessed”. Fred is an accredited AOS Judge in the Pacific South Judging Region.