March 3rd 7:00pm 
The Speaker will be Fred Clarke of Sunset Valley Orchids.
Presenting: Catasetums, Cycnoches and Mormodes
Fred has been growing orchids for 42 years and has been hybridizing for 38 of those years. With over 34 years as a professional grower and manager in the horticultural industry, Fred applies these skills at his orchid nursery; Sunset Valley Orchids, located in San Diego, California.
He is a passionate orchid grower whose curiosity in orchids is broad and varied. Although developing Cattleya hybrids has been his sustaining interest, he is also actively creating new Paphiopedilum and Aussie Dendrobium hybrids plus some others to be named if they work out!
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”. This grex has received over 100 awards worldwide with nine FCC’s and thirty AM’s from the AOS judges!
Fred is an Accredited Judge in the Pacific South Judging Region. His plants have received hundreds of quality awards from the American Orchid Society.
Sunset Valley Orchids ZOOM Meeting Discount
Sunset Valley Orchids offers a 20% discount on all plant orders from your club members. The special voucher code is ZOOM. When you check out, type ZOOM into the voucher code box on the shopping cart page and click ‘RECALCULATE’ to apply the discount. This special discount is additive to the existing discount schedule, making for an excellent opportunity.