Grower: Carol Wood

A hybrid of Dendrobium Mini Green x Den Phalaenopsis representing the small dendrobiums. This type of breeding has produced a line of small plants which can easily be used to decorate a table top. Carols plant was covered with flowers creating an excellent specimen display. Carol reports the plant is in bloom from August through December.

Grower: Noreen Chervinski

Noreen indicate that this is a division of a plant she has had for over thirty years. It is a hybrid of C. Jane Warne ‘Alii’ AM/AOS x C. Stephen Oliver Fouracres ‘Giant’ registered by Jones and Scully in 1976. It is good to see orchid hybrids that have been kept in collections for many years.

Grower: Joe Crook

This is cross of Bulb. lobbii x claptonense was registered in 2003 and one of the clones has earned an FCC award. This clone has outstanding color.

Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg

Often grown under one of the synonyms, Trichoglottis brachiata or Trichoglottis philippinensis var. brachiata, the atropurpurea name is nearly fifty years older (Rchb.f., Linnaea 41: 30 1876). Ted acquired the plant in 2001 as 6 inch division. It blooms every August and is grown on a lanai.

Grower: Ed Soentoen

Two factors seem to influence the members. First, the intense color of this unknown hybrid and second, the plant arrangement. This tall, cane Dendrobium had its canes carefully tied to a center stake with the flowers forming a natural artistic arrangement.

Grower: Carol Wood

Carol purchased this plant from Featherstone Orchids as a hybrid of Epi cochleatum x Epi lancifolium. These parents have long been known as Encyclia, and more recently as Prosthectea. Since the original naming of the hybrid, the hybridizer has restated that lancifolium used was really trulla, and that is reflected in the RHS registry. But was it, or was that simply an attempt to maintain the hybrid name – because if the parent was really lancifolium, that is synonymous to cochleata. Regardless of the naming confusion, the judges found it deserving of the first place ribbon.

Grower: Carol Wood

A well bloomed example of this grex named after our own Susan Fender by Carter and Holmes in 1992. The clone ‘Cinnamon Stick’ received its AOS award in 1994 when exhibited by the Fenders at a monthly judging in Tampa. Fenders Flora always has this clone available.

Grower: Bill Timm

This species is native to the Philippine Islands. Like many of this genus, it is grown to provide large specimen plants with arched inflorescences gracefully hanging around the circumference of the plant.

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.