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March 2003 Plant Table

Posted on 05/12/2010 by admin

Show Table March 2003

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. The monthly speaker chooses the Speaker’s Choice and the VAOS members vote on the plant for Members’ Choice. The following section describes each of these awards for March 2003. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.

	First Place Award: Vanda Madame Rattana x V. Manuadee Grower: Katie Caldwell A very well grown plant with three spikes carrying 31 flowers, a fourth spike emerging. The photograph fails to display the intense color of the flowers.
	Second Place Award: Cymbidium Star ‘Beth’ Grower: Bunny Minnock A heavily flowered minature cymbidium. This cross was registered in 1969 by Gallup and Stribling.
	Third Place Award and Members’ Choice: Dendrobium Second Love ‘Tokimeki’ Grower: Richard Amos A multi-spike plant in full bloom. Members were attracted to the immense display of flowers, typical of its Den. nobile background. The cross was registered in 1989 and represents complex breeding reaching back 11 generations.
	Best Species Award: Cattleya violacea Grower: Richard Amos A seedling of this species with five flowers on three spikes. C. violacea was first described in 1838 and is found naturally in Venezula, Ecuador and Brazil. This plant is a species seedling hybridized by H&R. The species has received twenty AOS awards, including a FCC in 1983 and an AM in 2001.
	Speaker’s Choice Award: Rhychostylis gigantea Grower: Bill and Susan Fender Five spikes at peak bloom on a well culitavted plant. A good example of a dark red form of the species, which has been cultivated in a variety of color forms. The species has received 115 AOS awards, the most recent in 2001.

Judges: Bill Fender, Walter Perrin, Jeff Higel

Feb 2003 Plant Table

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Show Table – February 2003

	Best SpciesAward: Epidendrum stamfordianum ‘Pinkie’ AM/AOS Grower: Bill and Connie Timm Multiple spike plant with an impressive cascade of blooms. Plant and flowers in very good condition. This variety recieved its AM award in 1967. Over thirty varietal forms of Epi. stamfordianum have been awarded with about half of the awards for culture. Plants receiving a CCM have had over 1000 flowers with one plant estimated to have 4000 flowers.
	First Place and Members’ Choice Awards: Blc. Meditation ‘Silver Sword’ Grower: Ed and Elaine Fox A well grown plant with eleven flowers open and several buds. The cross Blc. Meditation was registered in 1974. It is a complex hybrid with 7 cattleya species (dominated by the use of C. dowiana, C. warscewiczii, C. trianiae) a single Brassavola species (B. digbyana) and a single Laelia species (L. purpurata).
	Second Place Award: Oncidium maculatum Grower: Bill and Betsy Scevola Numerous flowers and buds on seven spikes. This species, from Central America, received its first AOS award in 1963. The twenty four awards to this species include one as recent as 2001. The species has been used in numerous hybrids.
	Third Place Award: Phal. Luchia Stripes Grower: Barbara and Bob Wagner One spike with seven nicely arranged flowers. The flowers striping is well marked and uniform, the very outer edge of the sepals and petals are white and define the flower shape. This cross of Phal. Ruey Lih Stripes x Phal. Coral Lake was registered in 1998.
	Speaker’s Choice Award: Slc. Firelighter Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg Slc. Firelighter’s parents are Slc. Bright Angel x Sl. Orpetii. Three large flowers (3.5 inch spread) on a small (under six inches) plant. This plant was purchased from H& R Nurseries in a 2″ pot in March 2001, and was blooming for the second time when exhibited.

Judges: DaveMitchell, Howie Schneider, Shirley Hoffman

May 2010 Plant Table

Posted on 05/11/2010 by admin

Show Table May 2010

Monthly meetings include a show table of members’ plants. Six ribbons are awarded each month. 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 May. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.

	First Place and Members’ Choice: Cattlianthe Jewel Box ‘Scheherazade’ AM/AOS Grower: Bill Timm A classic red Cattleya, this hybrid was registered in 1962 and is a cross of Guarianthe aurantiaca x Cattleya Anzac. The first award to a clone was in 1964. The ‘Scheherazade’ clone was granted an HCC in 1969 and the AM was earned in 1971. The plant was cloned and widely distributed. It has proven to be a vigorous grower earning 14 AOS cultural awards, once with 450 flowers.
	Second Place and Speaker’s Choice: Doriteanopsis Little Gem Stripes Grower: Bob Wallace A very well grown, floriferous plant of this multifloral Phalaenopsis. The clonal name was not given, but it looks at lot like the clone ‘OX 1425’ which has an AM award from the AOS. The cross was registered in 1997.
	Third: Epicattleya (Guaricyclia) Charlie Brown ‘Red Star’ Grower: Bob Wallace Many bright red flowers made this the third place winner. The name maybe be problematic. There are two Charlie Brown’s in the Cattleya hybrid group. The one named above and Enanthleya Charlie Brown. While their parentage differs, both can produce offspring similar to the one shown.
	Best Species: Dendrobium lindleyi Grower: Carol Wood Carol has owned this plant for six years and this is the fifth time it has bloomed. Each successive blooming has produced a larger ball of flowers which last about a week. The species is also known as Den. aggregatum, an older name that was applied in error to this species.

18 plants from 8 exhibitors were shown.