Show Table December 2009
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 members. 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 December; There was no Speaker’s Choice award this month. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.
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First Place, Members Choice: Cattleya Brabantiae
Grower: Cynthia Vance The two flowers of vivid color attracted the judges attention. C. Brabantiae is a hybrid of C. loddigesii by C. aclandiae originally registered in 1863. This plant is the offspring of two coerulea forms and shows no coerulea color. |
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Second Place and Members Choice: Cattleya Summit View ‘Primero’
Grower: Peg Hartley This hybrid of C. percivaliana by C. Drumbeat was registered by Stewart Orchids in 1994. It is a reliable bloomer that puts on a wonderful show near Christmas time. VAOS also honored another plant of this clone grown by another grower in December 2006. |
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Third Place: Rhyncattleanthe Free Spirit ‘Carmela’
Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg Numerous flowers graced this miniature Cattleya. This hybrid tends to produce inflorescences sequentially and does not produce a mass of flowers at one time. |
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Species of the month: Prosthechea cochleata
Grower: Bill Timm A well grown example our native species. The flowering was fresh on all inflorenscences and presented a display of this species not often seen in December. |
Photographs by Richard Amos
13 plants from 6 exhibitors were shown.