Show Table June 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 June. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.
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First Place and Members’ Choice: Bromecanthe Garnet Glory
Grower: John Simms The bright red color of this floriferous hybrid caught the judges and members attention. The current genus name is probably unfamiliar to most – It is the result of the hybrid Guaritonia Why Not x Myrmecophila thompsoniana. Yet, most of us would be more familiar with the cross expressed as Cattleytonia Why not x Schomburgkia thompsoniana. |
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Second Place: Burrageara Dee Luce ‘Everglades’
Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg An Oncidium type hybrid from Milton Carpenter’s work to produce heat tolerant Oncidiums. Ted has grown the plant since 2001 and it blooms every year.. |
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Third Place: Bulbophllum Jim Clarkson ‘A-doribill 63’ AM/AOS
Grower: Joe Crook A very brightly colored, well shaped hybrid of Bulb. lobbii x Bulb. claptonense. Another example of the potential frustration of orchid names. Many authorities consider the two parents as forms of Bulb. lobbii. If that approach was used to name this plant it would be considered a very good form of lobbii. |
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Best Species, Members’ Choice: Myrmecophilia albopurpurea
Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg This species is native to the Cayman Islands. The Plant when shown had seven upright inflorescence with 50 flowers and buds. This is a suitable plant for lanai or yard culture in our region. |
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Speaker’s Choice: Sophrocattleya Tropical Pointer ‘Spot’ Grower: Bob Wallace Multiple stems of many flowers made an eye catching display. The plant carried a varietal name of ‘spot’ which does not reflect an award, but was likely used for commercial purposes. |
Judges were Sandy Carless, Ouida Felker, Mary Zweig, Susan Fender.
32 plants from 14 exhibitors were shown.