Show Table September 2008
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 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. The following section describes each of these awards for September. 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 Species of the Month: Phalaenopsis gigantea
Grower: Richard Amos Richard reported that this was the first bloom on a plant that was a small seedling three years ago. The species is from Borneo. It has been used extensively in hybridizing and is the background of many new hybrid types. |
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Second Place, Speaker’s Choice and Members’ Choice: Phalaenopsis bellina ‘Montclair’
Grower: Richard Amos A exceptionally nice form of this species with intense colors. The plant was grown in a tree fern Basket and had eight flowers. |
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Third Place: Cycnodes JEM’s Golden Rain
Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg This hybrid of Mormodes Unisin x Cycnoches herrenhusanum was registered in 2004. The grex has not produced any awards or offspring. |
Judges were Susan Fender, Ed Soentglen, Mary Zwers, Christine Solakis.
Twenty plants from 9 exhibitors were shown.