Show Table June 2008
Monthly meetings include a show table of members’ plants. Six ribbons are awarded each month: four awards are selected by an alternating team of 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 April. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.
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First Place and Members’ Choice: Miltonia Bert Field ‘Crimson Glory’
Grower: Orchids, Etc. Fifteen inflorescences with 3-4 flowers each made a showy plant representative of a genus we are seldom able to grow well in this part of Florida. The hybrid was registered in 1963. |
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Second Place: Sophrocattleya June Bug ‘Venice Sunshine’ AM/AOS
Grower: Carol Wood A miniature cattleya that combines the lip of the C. bicolor parent and the form and plant size of the Sc. Beaufort parent. This clone was awarded at the Venice show in 2001 when shown by Fender’s Flora and is available as a meristem from them today. |
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Third Place: Laeliocattleya ‘Daisy’
Grower: Elinor Burton Upright, lavender pink flowers with a nice lip and a bit of flare in the petals brought the ribbon to this plant. While entered as Lc. Daisy, a hybrid of C. mossiae by L. anceps, some questioned the naming because of the flower appears to have L. purpurata in its background. |
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Species of the Month: Dendrobium delacourii
Grower: Orchids Etc. This plant was grown superbly on a peice of grape vine. The species is widespread in Southeast Asia growing in deciduous forest and is itself desciduous. |
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Speakers Choice: Sophronitis (Laelia) purpurata
Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg. Twenty-three white flowers with deep crimson lips made an impressive showing of this well-known species. This species is in the background of more than 15,000 hybrids. A forthcoming name change will place this in the gneus Cattleya. |
Judges were John Masters, Susan Fender, Bill Fender.
25 plants from 15 exhibitors were shown.