Show Table December 2005
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, a Speaker’s Choice award and the VAOS members vote on the plant for Members’ Choice. There was no Speaker for the December meeting. The following section describes each of these awards forDecember. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.
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First Place: Slc. Bright Angel x Blc. Lewellyn
Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg This unregisterd hybrid of H & R nurseries was purchased as a 2″seedling in 2002. The plant blooms twice a year with the brightest red color occurring during the winter months. The flowers have a natural spread of 8 cm. |
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Second Place: Blc. Liz Wright x Blc. Fred Stewart
Grower: Richard Amos The lineage of this plant is a who’s who of large purple Cattleya hybrids: Blc. Memoria Crispen Rosales, Lc. Elizabeth Off and Blc. Norman’s Bay are grandparents. This plant had seven flowers on three inflorescences. The dark purple color of the sepals and petals was evenly and deeply saturated and enhanced by the rich, red purple lip. |
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Third Place: Blc. Simba’s Song
Grower: Roy Klinger This hybrid of Bc. Maikai by L. purpurata was registered in 2002 and was made by Quest orchids. There were 16 inflorescences, each carried about seven flowers. Blc. Simba’s Song has the growth and flowering habit of Bc. Maikai with larger flowers. |
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Species of the Month: Angraecum distichum ‘Marya’ CCM/AOS
Grower: Richard Amos Richard had shown this plant in November 2004 on the society plant table and it won Species of the Month. This year it was even more impressive. The plant was shown at the Monthly AOS judging at Orlando in December 2005 where it earned Richard a CCM (Certificate of Cultural Merit), scoring 86 points. AOS judges counted over 500 flowers on 150 growths. |
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Members Choice: Crphm. Emly Siegerst ‘Molly Jack’ CCM/AOS
Grower: Monroe Kokin Monroe showed this plant one year ago at the AOS judging in Tampa where it earned Monroe a CCM award with 81 points. At that time it had 77 flowers and 37 buds on 57 inflorescences. This flowering was even more impressive on a plant in perfect condition. It is a hybrid of Cirr. Elizabeth Ann x Bulb. lasiochilum registered in 1989. |
Judges were Bill Caldwell, Katie Caldwell, Bill Fender, Bob Hague.
Twenty-two plants from 13 exhibitors were shown.