This month we will have our semi-annual Auction. Bring plants and divisions you can donate, as well as collectibles or any orchid related item. This is the event that we do to raise funds for the society and for the Spring show and sale, so bring your bidding spirit and get ready to have some fun. It all starts at 2:30.
The auction will take place at Classic Wine Storage on 14372 Proton, Dallas. Join us there!
This month’s meeting will feature the classic orchid Brassavola nodosa. Jim Williams, an AOS judge with the Dallas Judging Center and a long-time GNTOS member, will speak on the “Lady of the Night” orchid, discussing it’s progeny and judging standards. Join us! We will have our judging table as usual for members, and the raffle. Snacks are provided.
Our meeting location is at the Preston Tower Condos at 6211 W. Northwest Hwy., Dallas, 75225, approximately ½ mile west of NorthPark Mall. Please park on the east side of the building and enter through the front door of the building. Check in at the front desk and they will direct you to the meeting in the community room. After the meeting, exit from a door on the east side directly into the parking lot.
Dotty Woodson of Fort Worth will be speaking to us this Sunday on Insect and Disease Control at 2:30 pm. Dottie has been
growing and hybridizing orchids with her husband since 1973. They have 5,000 square feet of greenhouses and
have registered 64 hybrids and have won many national AOS awards. Dotty retired recently from Texas A&M
AgriLife Research and Extension Center as an Extension Program Specialist. Members, bring your orchids for our table judging. As usual, snacks are also provided!
We are enjoying our new meeting location at the Preston Tower Condos at 6211 W. Northwest Hwy., Dallas, 75225, approximately ½ mile west of NorthPark Mall. Everyone will need to park in the business parking lot, on the east side of the building and then enter the front door of the building. Check in at the front desk and they will direct you to the meeting in the community room. After the meeting, we can exit from a door on the east side directly to the parking lot.
GNTOS is pleased to have Tom Reddick speak to us Sunday, August 1 on “Mastering the Art of Orchid Growing without a Greenhouse”. Tom began growing orchids at age 9, and has almost 40 years of experience in the hobby. In the past 20 years, he has focused his attention on mastering orchid cultivation techniques in a home environment by growing out a wide range of orchids from flask to seedling size. Tom will be bringing orchids to sell, plus will be providing orchids for our raffle. We can’t ask for better than that! So join us for a fun afternoon of orchid talk at our new meeting location, Preston Tower Condos!
We will be in a room at the Preston Tower Condos at 6211 W. Northwest Hwy., Dallas, 75225, approximately ½ mile west of NorthPark Mall. Everyone will need to park in the business parking lot, on the east side of the building and enter the front door of the building. Everyone will need to check in at the front desk and tell the clerk they are there to see David Gould for a meeting in the community room. The room is large enough to accommodate space for snacks, plant tables for our members’ orchids, and the Snoopers Table, plus seating for our members and friends.
We’re not sure about the mask requirements, so please bring one with you as a precaution. Thank you!
PLEASE NOTE: We will be meeting the 2nd Sunday in July. We are having our 1st auction of 2021! These are fun events and great fundraisers for GNTOS to help pay for our annual show and sale each Spring. The next auction will be in December. Auctions depend on people donating orchids as part of the fundraising effort. So look through your orchids and pull out duplicates, extra divisions, etc. and bring them Sunday, July 11, along with some food to share. Then come prepared to add some new orchids for your collection!
This meeting will be at the Garland Senior Center again – at 600 W Avenue A, Garland, TX 75040. We met here last month. Keep your eyes on where we’ll be meeting for August, though as the location may change!
The society will be meeting Sunday, June 6 at the Garland Senior Center at 600 W Avenue A, Garland, TX 75040. Karl Varian, one of our members and a judge with the Dallas Judging Center, will be presenting a program on yellow cattleyas and their breeding in the past and today. Cattleyas are the orchid most people think of when orchids are mentioned because they have long been used in corsages.
Masks are required at the Senior Center. We will be having table judging as usual – members, please bring flowering orchids to share! We’re not sure if we’ll have the plants for a raffle yet, which is open to members and guest alike. However, we will have everything else as usual, so come on out and join us as we begin again to meet in person for our monthly meetings!
If you were a paid member of GNTOS last year, then you are automatically registered for 2021. You do NOT need to register for this year!
We are meeting again! Plans are in place for our June meeting and beyond. For now, the location is the Garland Senior Activity Center, 600 W Avenue A, Garland, TX 75040. This is the location for the Dallas Orchid Judging Center each month. Be watching for more information for our June meeting!
The Garland Senior Center is going to open in May, so we will start meeting at our regular time at 2:30pm this Sunday! There is no speaker – we will have a fun social time to renew our acquaintances, discuss the remainder of the year and just enjoy ourselves. Bring snacks to share — let’s all get reacquainted and get back into our orchid habit. See you this Sunday!
We are waiting to see when and where it will be best to restart our monthly meetings. In the meantime, keep growing those orchids! Members – send David pictures of orchids you have blooming so we can enjoy them in lieu of our Plant Table!
Hope to see you in May!