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December 15 Holiday Luncheon & Orchid Auction Plantation Golf & Country Club 11am—3pm. See flyer December 29 - January 1 Plant registration for Sarasota Show January 4-5 Sarasota Orchid Society Annual Show & Sale. Set up Friday January 3rd January 8 (1st Wednesday) General Meeting, Venice Community Center. Speaker: Lawrence Zettler Topic: Orchid Conservation in North America January 16 (2nd Thursday) Growers Clinic, Venice Community Center, 7pm. Topic: Dendrobiums January 26—29 Plant registration for VAOS Show . February 1-2 VAOS Annual Orchid Show. Set up Friday January 31.

Venice Orchid Project

The Venice project is nowhere near the scale of the Million Orchid Project initiated by Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens in Coral Gables, FL where 50,000 orchid seedlings will be planted in the coming years. However, their project does serve as a terrific role model to initiate our own – to reintroduce Florida friendly orchids to Venice. Click this box for more Info.