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January 2010 Plant Table

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Show Table January 2010

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 January. 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.

First Place, Members Choice: Miltassia Charles M. Fitch ‘Izumi’ AM/AOS

Grower: Dale Richter

An exceptionally well grown plant with four inflorescences, two in flower. The hybrid is a cross of Brassia verrucosa and Miltonia spectablis registered by Fitch in 1961. Carmela orchids exhibited the clone ‘Izumi’ when it was awarded in 1997.
Second Place and Members Choice: Rhyncholaeliocattleya Goldenzelle ‘Lemon Chiffon’ AM/AOS

Grower: Sherry Beck

The brightly colored flowers of ‘Lemon Chiffon’ brighten the exhibit table. The hybrid is a cross of Rlc. Fortune x C. Horace and was registered in 1982. The cross represents one of the major hybridizing lines used in creating yellow and art shade Cattleyas.
Third Place: Mo. Painted Desert x Ctsm. tenebrosum

Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg

And interesting cross of the notogenus Fredclarkeara. This hybrid is yet to be registered and was shown on its first blooming.
Species of the month: Bulbophyllum lilacinum

Grower: Bill Timm

The short inflorescence carried about 40 lilac colored flowers. The species is from Malaya and Thailand. Because of its short inflorescence, it is often grown on a slab. It likes a warm and wet environment.
Members Choice: Cattleya Chia Lin ‘New City’ AM/AOS

Grower: Anna Sibelle

This is hybrid of Rlc Oconee and Rlc. Maitland registered in 1989. The clone ‘New City’ was awarded in 2001. The dark red color and deep red velvet lip made it a ‘Member’s Choice.’

Judges were Susan Fender, Bill Fender and Patty Rapoport

15 plants from 8 exhibitors were shown.

December 2009 Plant Table

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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.

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.
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.
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.
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.

November 2009 Plant Table

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Show Table November 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 November. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.

First Place, Speaker’s Choice and Members Choice: Dendrobium Unknown

Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg

While this plant was entered as ‘unknown’ Ted checked his records and found it is the grandchild of four registered parents: Imi (1985) x Naniloa (1991) crossed to Kristen Ann (1973) x Nicole Camelot (1994). It was produced by Hawaiian growers for the cut flower market. The large, deeply colored flowers drew everyone’s attention.
Second Place: Rhyncholealiacattleya Norman’s Prophesy ‘Montclair’

Grower: John and Dorothy Funderburg

Rlc. (Blc.) Norman;s Prophesy is a cross of Rlc. Norman’s Bay x C. Prophesy registered Stewart Orchids in 1989. Another plant of this intensely colored clone was awarded at our show table in October 2006 when it was exhibited by Chris Simco.
Third Place: Brassidium Kenneth Biven ‘Santa Barbara’ AM/AOS

Grower: Anne Sibille

A nice, upright stem held the intriguing flowers in nearly perfect position to earn this ribbon. The quality of this plant has led to its use as a parent is seven registered crosses. Five of those crosses have earned 16 AOS quality awards – a very productive record.
Species of the month: Brassavola nodosa

Grower: Tony Nacinovich

Deciphering the tag – this appears to be a seedling of the cross of two forms (Mas Mejor x Remar) of B. nodosa. The result is floriferous plant with well-formed flowers which won the judges attention with its great presentation.

Judges were Ken Carless, Lorraine Forshner, Judy Russell and Carl Ivanik

23 plants from 11 exhibitors were shown.