Show Table November 2005
Monthly meetings include a show table of members’ plants. Six ribbons are awarded each month: four awards are selected by an alternating team of three VAOS member judges. These awards are: one for Best Species, and a First, Second and Third place award to any plant, a Speaker’s Choice award and the VAOS members vote on the plant for Members’ Choice. The following section describes each of these awards for November. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.
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First Place: Lc. Wrigleyi ‘Blue Lagoon’ HCC/AOS
Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg Two inflorescences held 16 blue-lavendar flowers. This hybrid of C. bowringiana and L. anceps was first made in 1899. The current clone is the result of breeding using the blue toned forms of the species. In 1990 this clone recieved three AOS awards (2 -HCC’s and a JC) within 50 days as meristems(?) were judged in Texas, Oklahoma and Illinois. |
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Second Place: Phragmipedium Don Wimber
Grower: Roberta Williams Three flat flowers on one inflorescence graced this plant. It is a cross of Phrag. Eric Young and Phrag. besseae registered in 1995. In the 10 years since it was registered the grex has won 75 AOS awards. |
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Third Place: Blc. Mem. Helen Brown ‘Sweet Afton’ AM/AOS
Grower: Roy Klinger Four flowers on two inflorescences showed brightly on this plant. This is a hybrid of two well know yellow/green Cattleyas (Blc. Xanthette by Lc. Ann Folis) that was registered in 1967. The grex earned 16 AOS awards; this clone received its AM/AOS when exihibited by Fred Stewart in 1976. |
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Best Species and Speakers Choice: Catasetum pileatum ‘Green Giant’
Grower: Bill Timm Four flowers on one inflorescence presented large, perfect condition lips to attract our judges. Hawks, in the Encyclopeadia of Cultivated Orchids, called it “prehaps the finest species in the genus.” It blooms once a year in the fall. |
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Members Choice: Dendrobium ‘Caronii-Darcie’
Grower: Jane Camarota Many flowers on many inflorescences attracted the members attention.The individual flowers had a dark pink center and an attractive pink blush on the petals. Jane said she had purchased the plant at Home Depot and has grown it for several years. The name is not registered. It is a good example of the compact type of dendrobium phalaenopsis available for the home grower. |
Judges were Sherman Shonk, Mickey Carnell and Anna Sibille.
30 plants from 18 exhibitors were shown.