VAOS Meeting Oct. 2nd, Venice Community Center (Doors open at 6:30pm)

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Location: Venice Community Center (Doors open at 6:30pm)

Speaker: Edgar Stehli – Windswept in Time

 

Topic: Angraecoids

At Windswept in Time Orchids, we have been growing and selling orchids for over 20 years. Our love for these beautiful flowers began when we received an orchid as a gift and realized how easy it was to care for. Since then, we have been dedicated to providing the highest quality orchids and customer service.

We specialize in growing a wide variety of orchids, including Phalaenopsis, Cattleya, and Dendrobium. All of our orchids are grown in our greenhouse in optimal conditions and are carefully selected for their quality and beauty. We offer both potted orchids and cut flowers.

Edgar will have orchids for sale.

 

VAOS Meeting Sept. 4th, Venice Community Center (Doors open at 6:30pm)

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Location: Venice Community Center (Doors open at 6:30pm) 

Speaker: Jim Roberts

Topic: Fertilizing your Orchids 

Basic and Advanced information about the truth of fertilizers. What/how/why/when to fertilize.

 

Jim is the owner and operator of Florida SunCoast Orchids which is located near Myakka City, FL. He has a 10,000 square foot greenhouse on five acres of land where he grows Cattleya, Phalaenopsis, Dendrobium, Vanda and Encyclia orchids. He specializes in growing Cattleya and Encyclia hybrids, flowering in 4-inch and 6-inch flowering pots and baskets. Larger and smaller sizes are available.
Jim is also a hybridizer and has created such beauties as Suncoast Sundrops and Florida Stars. “I strive to grow and sell the best quality orchid plants for all our customers, and to build a lasting reputation in the industry as one of the very best.”
Jim lives in the Sarasota area and has lived in Florida since 2001.
Jim will have plants for sale.

 

VAOS Meeting August 7th, Venice Community Center (Doors open at 6:30pm)

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Location: Venice Community Center (Doors open at 6:30pm)

Speaker: Bill Nunez

Topic:  Encyclias

Bill began growing orchids in the late 60’s after several years of tagging along with his father to visit friend’s greenhouses. Some of these growers were prominent growers in the area and some of you may remember them: Jack Sweet, Cliff Curry, John Matthews, John & Gloria Naugle, Gladys Whitesell, Richard Bates, and a few others.

He began to receive a few back bulbs from some of these folks and a few of them lived. He was off to the races after that. He built my first flask box when he was in high school . He grew up on 1800 acres of family owned ranch land and started working on Cattle ranches in the 70’s becoming familiar with Florida cypress swamps. He greatly enjoyed his adventures into these wonderful swamps. They became his refuge and  always had the since of traveling back hundreds of years in time when he entered one of these untouched places. He was able to find many of the Florida orchid species along with native ferns and a variety of wildlife.

He has been growing orchids most of his life and gets great pleasure now when he is making new hybrids mostly in the Cattleya alliance.

He has been fortunate enough to receive several AOS awards and register several of his own hybrids.

The greatest satisfaction for him is to have one of his hybrids awarded.

Now he is older than dirt and is still fascinated with orchids. Somewhere back in his memory he is still a young man on an afternoon adventure in a pristine Florida cypress head, oak hammock or creek bottom.

Bill Nunez ‘ AKA ‘ Rhizome Cowboy ‘