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The Next Meeting
of the Hilo Orchid Society will be on
Saturday May 13, 2006
12:30 PM
Note: This is the 2nd Saturday
Place: UH Agricultural Center
875 Komohana Street, Hilo
PRE-PROGRAM 12:30 TO 1:00 P.M
Our Speaker, Tom Perlite, will give a talk on Odontoglossum Culture
MEETING - 1:00 P.M.
TOPIC: Odontoglossum Intergeneric Hybrids
Tom Perlite, owner of Golden Gate Orchids in San Francisco, has been growing orchids for the past 30 years. After receiving a degree in Botany from Cal Berkeley, Tom worked at the Rod McLellan Co., and subsequently started Golden Gate Orchids in 1981. Golden Gate Orchids is a wholesale nursery with greenhouses in San Francisco and Pacifica. They specialize in cool growing orchids, including Odontoglossum, Masdevallias, Miltonias, and Dendrobiums.
With the ideal growing climate in San Francisco, Tom has been growing Odontoglossums since the mid ‘70s and is an accomplished hybridizer of Odontoglossums and intergenerics. Tom is an accredited AOS judge and has received numerous awards including Grand Champion at the Osaka International Orchid Show, the George Moore Medal from the RHS, the Butterworth Prize and five FCCs from the AOS.
PLANT SALES TABLE
There will be a member’s plant sale table at this meeting. Plants must be healthy, disease and pest free. All plants must be properly labeled. Plants must be listed with your own number and the list turned in to Karen Hagen. This is a great opportunity for members to sell their extra plants.=========================================================================
Unless otherwise noted, all photos taken by Stanley Dinsmore
Winners of the People's Choice Awards at the April Meeting
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1st Place: Phaius Dan Rosenberg 'Tropical
Delight' Exhibitor: Walter Scheeren |
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2nd Place: Blc Dorcille Little x C interglossa 'Sa Ngob' Eshibitor: Richard & Robbie |
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3rd Place: Vanda Roberta
Delight Exhibitor: Glory Kirkland |
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Botanical: Masillaria
tenuifolia Exhibitor: Carol Campbell |
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A Montage by Michael Poore of pictures he took at the April Meeting. |
Winners of the People's Choice Awards at the March Meeting
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1st Place: LC Firedance
'Patricia' Exhibitor: Karen Kimerle |
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2nd Place: Cymbidium
(Noname) Exhibitor: Glory Kirkland Glory lives at an altitude where Cymbidiums can be grown and bloomed. We don't see many Cymbidiums here in Hilo. |
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3rd Place: Lycaste Jason Leckey 'Sam Curtis' x
Frank Key Exhibitor: Richard & Robbie |
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Botanical: Anselia africana Exhibitor: Emerson Llantero |
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Honorable Mention: Oncidium Mendenhall
'Hildos' Exhibitor: Julie Ross Julie brought this in late. Most of the ballots had been turned in. It was such a good specimen that it was given an Honorable Mention. |
Winners of the People's Choice Awards at the February Meeting
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1st Place: Dtnps Hybridizers Dream
'Carmela' Exhibitor: Richard & Robbie |
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2nd Place: Paph Winston Churchill x
Matcheck Exhibitor: Lottie Haspe |
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3rd Place: Vanda Pat Delight Exhibitor: Emerson Llantero |
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Botanical: Lycaster
macrobulbon Exhibitor: Walter Scheeren |
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Winners of the People's Choice Awards at the January Meeting
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1st Place: Oerstedella
centradenia Exhibitor: Walter Scheeren An outstanding beauty. I thought this would win the Botanical Award when I first saw it. |
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2nd Place: Cym. Pink Beauty Exhibitor: Glory Kirkland Glory always seems to bring in a glorious Cymbidium every year about this time. |
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3rd Place: Pot. Classy Lady X C.
Horace Exhibitor: Pauline Brault |
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Botanical: Gongora flaveola Exhibitor: Carol Siebenrock A very unusual Gongora! |
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Some Pictures from the December Installation Banquet
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| 1997 President Lottie Haspe and Pete Haspe | 2006 President Pauline Brault and 2003, 2004 President Emmerson Llantero | 2006 Vice President Karen Kimmerle |
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| Past Show Chair Floyd Lundquist and 2002 President Marlene Lundquist | 2005 President Walter Scheeren and Ann Scheeren | Webmaster, 2001, 2002 Vice President Stan Dinsmore and Dale Dinsmore |
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| Jurahame Leyva and AOS Head Judge Leonard Gines | 2003, 04, 05, 06 Treasurer Richard Wright and Robbie Ehmke keeping track of Auction bidding | Two Old Timers ["Members Forever"] Yasuji Takasaki and Marie Shimizu |
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| Fred and Linda Levine | All round Show Helpers Priscilla Banks and Glory Kirkland HOS Display Chair | Inspecting the Auction Plants |
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| Inspecting the Auction Plants | Inspecting the Auction Plants | 2001 President and one the Auctioneers Jerome Siebenrock |
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Auction in Progress - Auctioneer Leonard Gines | |
Winners of the People's Choice Awards at the November Meeting
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1st Place & Botanical: Sophronitis
wittigiana Exhibitor: Bobachick An absolutely stunning display. This is a cool grower. |
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2nd Place: Catasetum Rebecca Northen X
unica Exhibitor: Karen Kimmerle Another magnificent display by Karen. |
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| 3rd Place: There was a tie between Plant Labels No. 2 and 16. Unfortunately whoever owned these plants left before we could photograph the flowers and even took the labels so we don't know the exhibitors. |
Meet Dr. Motes our Speaker for November
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He gave a very informative Vanda culture session before the main meeting. And in the main meeting he talked about and showed where his Vanda breeding program is going. One important thing that I learned about Vanda culture was to watch the root tips. If they are nice and green -- good. If not find the problem!! |  |
Winners of the People's Choice Awards at the October Meeting
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1st Place: Cirrhopetalum Elizabeth
Ann Exhibitor: Walter Scheeren A truly spectacular Cirrhopetalum |
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2nd Place: Cymbidium Ruby
Red Exhibitor: Barry & Patsy Reese One doesn't see these around Hilo very often. One has to live at the higher elevations to get Cymbidiums to bloom. |
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3rd Place & Botanical: Dendrobium
spectabilis Exhibitor: Emerson Llantero This Dendrobium surely makes a spectable of itself!! It is so wound up in itself that it is hard to see which parts are which!! |
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Our October Speaker demonstrating mounting techniques
| Mac gave a very interesting talk on mounting techniques. One of the tips was to use twine intead of wire to hold the plant on the mountin plaque. |  |
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Here he was demontrating the different kinds of mounting woods that work well. His main meeting talk on Phillipean Orchids was very enlightening and humorous |
Winners of the People's Choice Awards at the September Meeting
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1st Place and Botanical: Cycnoches loddigessii
X Sibling Exhibitor: Jane Awa Notice the "face" in the lip! |
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2nd Place: Catasetum
Orchidglade Exhibitor: Karen Kimmerle |
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3rd Place: Catasetum Black Knight X
Orchidglade Exhibitor: 7 Rocks Orchids |
Winners of the People's Choice Awards at the August Meeting
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1st Place and & Botanical: Isochilus
linearus Exhibitor: Lottie Haspe |
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2nd Place: Paphiopedilum Doligoldi
(rothchildiana 'Eagle' x armeniacum '#15' Exhibitor: Lottie Haspe |
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3rd Place: Catasetum ((piliatum x oresteddi) x
piliatum 'Imperial Pierro Court') Exhibitor: Richard & Robbie |
Winners of the People's Choice Awards at the July Meeting
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1st Place: Dendrobium Gatton
Sunray HCC/RHS Exhibitor: Lottie Haspe This HCC is almost a century old but when properly grown this Dendrobium makes a beautiful display. |
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2nd Place: Blc Crowfield
Mendenhall Exhibitor: Richard & Robbie Here is an unusual combination of colors. |
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3rd Place: Rhyncovanda Colmarie
(Rhyncovanda Siam X Rhyncostylus gigantea Exhibitor: Jane Awa What an unusual color! It was hard to capture the true color. |
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Botanical: Dendrochillum
filleforme Exhibitor: Jeff Fendentz Jeff displays this plant every year. It just seems to get bigger and bigger. How he keeps it in such good condition is a marvel. |
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Our Speaker for July - Weyman Bussey
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Weyman was a very humorous and informative speaker. His discussion of Mexican native orchids really kept you awake along with a contest of naming an orchid species being shown. (Reward -- a bottle of pure Mexican Vanilla Extract!!) |  |
Winners of the People's Choice Awards at the June Meeting
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1st Place: Dendrobium
thrysiflorum Exhibitor: Lottie Haspe As a grower of exceptional specimen plants Lottie has almost no peers. Very few people can grow such magnificent specimens. |
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2nd Place: Laelia
purpurata Exhibitor: Pauline Brault Pauline chooses her plants very carefully and certainly has the knack of growing plants to perfection with exquisite displays of flowers. |
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3rd Place: Catasetum
hookerii Exhibitor: Stan & Dale Dinsmore Catasetums produce either male or female flowers depending upon the light level they receive. These are the female flowers using a high light level. |
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Botanical: Bulbophyllum
lobii Exhibitor: Richard Wright & Robie Ehmke Looking at the first Google response to Bulbophyllum lobii show several color forms but all of the same shape. Take a look. |
Winners of the People's Choice Awards at the May Meeting
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1st Place: Blc.
Warne's Legacy 'Dream Girl' Exhibitor: Pauline Brault |
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2nd Place: L.
purpurata 'Pink' x 'Werkhausii' Exhibitor: Richard Otaki |
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3rd Place: Den.
parishii Exhibitor: Richard Otaki |
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| Botanical: Masdevalia
assortment in basket Exhibitor: Phil & Irene Tye Unfortunately the Tyes left the meeting before the picture of their plants could be taken |
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Our May Culture Speaker -- Neo and our May Program Speaker -- Dennis D'Alesandro
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Neo spoke on the culture of Vandaceous Orchids. He was born in Singapore but now is the manager of Asia Pacific Orchid Farm. | |
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Dennis D'Alesandro related some very exciting stories on his introduction to orchids, his travels and living in Equador. He has discovered many orchids new to science and some are named after him. His talk was very well received. He also brought in some rare plants for auction, sale and the drawing. |  |
Special Happenings in May
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Marlene Lundquist personally made this luscious cake commemorating the 40th Wedding Anniversary of Stan & Dale Dinsmore and of her's and Floyd's 50th Wedding Anniversary. |  |
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Mark Your Calendar
Society Meetings are held at the UHH Ag Center, 875 Komohana St., Hilo, Hawai`i
Unless otherwise noted, Our General Meetings start at 1 PM on the 2nd Saturday of the month, except December. If there is a cultural session it normally will begin at 12:30 PM
Saturday May 13, 2006
Odontoglossum Culture and Odontoglossum Intergeneric Hybrids
The 2006 Show and Sale will be held the weekend of August 11-13 in the Edith Kanak'ole Multipurpose Stadium, Hilo. With the Preview Party the evening of August 10th. Set up for the show starts on August 7th. Come join us in putting this Show together and helping at the Show. You will be gratified by the results. Watch for more definitive data.
