Emily Quinn will lead our meeting in March with a workshop on caring for, and hopefully curing, sick plants. Orchids will be brought in to examine and identify the problem, whether bugs or care issues. We will have examples of products to use as treatments. We’ll also have a slide show which will illustrate other problems and solutions. Emily is an accredited AOS orchid judge and the Training Coordinator for the Dallas Judging Center. She enjoys most orchids but has a special place in her heart for bulbophyllums and other oddball orchids. After the talk, we’ll have our usual member plant judging and raffle. Come join us and get tips on keeping your orchids healthy!

Orchids 101 will be in the greenhouse at 2pm with Lorna talking about general repotting for orchids (topic changed from summering orchids outside).

NOTE: Our Spring Orchid Show and Sale will be April 13-14, with setup on Friday, April 12. Location is Texas A&M’s Water & Land Resources Bldg. at 17360 Coit Road, in Dallas. Watch for more details!

Our February meeting will be a little different than our usual type of program – we will be viewing an AOS webinar “Black Orchids”. Just as “blue” orchids aren’t truly blue, the “black” color of these hybrids is usually a very dark purple. It has taken some years and lots of hybridizing to get this very dark coloration on orchids and this webinar will talk about these unusually-colored orchids. Join us!

Orchids 101 will be in the greenhouse at 2pm with Charlie leading the Q&A discussion.