Orchids Magazine

Orchids Magazine

Published since 1932, Orchids magazine (formerly known as the AOS Bulletin) is among the many benefits of an AOS membership. Exploding with glorious full-page color photographs, each monthly issue is packed with topics of current interest for both beginners and advanced orchid growers.

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Latest Issue - May 2024

May 2024

Our May issue features the completion of Bob Sprague's Valmont Bog Update series, a beautifully illustrated article titled Pumpkin Soup and Majestic Orchids by Clare and Johan Hermans highlighting the recent Orchid Conservation Alliance trip to Madagascar, a special feature on the first records of Angraecum corrugatum and Cynorkis inermis in Madagascar and a report on the spectacular 23rd World Orchid Conference and 10th Taiwan International Orchid Show provided to us by Elita Vellekoop of Floral Daily.

Rounding out our May 2024 issue:

  • Volunteer Recognition - Service Awards from the Members' Meeting by the AOS Awards Committee
  • Volunteer Recognition - Franklin A. Smith, AOS Gold Medal Recipient by Susan Wedegaertner
  • For the Novice - Water Your Orchids by Ray Barkalow
  • GREATIdeas - Hang this Caddy by Ed Wright and Bill Tippit
  • Tom's Monthly Checklist by Thomas Mirenda
    Collector's Item - Cattleya sincorana by Judith Rapacz Hassler and Spiro Kasomenakis
  • Judges' Corner - Dateline Kenya, AOS International Outreach by Jean Hollebone and Cheryl Erins
  • Orchids Illustrated - Cyrtorchis by Wesley Higgins and Peggy Alrich
    Lindleyana - A New Large-Flowered and Previously Misinterpreted Andean Cyrtochilum (Orchidaceae: Oncidiinae), and some new combinations.

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Coming in June 2024 

  • Tom's Monthly Checklist by Thomas Mirenda
  • Collector's Item - Cycnoches by Charles Wilson
  • For the Novice - Repot Your Plants by Ray Barkalow
  • Orchids Illustrated - Prescottia by Wesley Higgins and Peggy Alrich
  • Orchids of Bhutan - The Genus Thunia by Stig Dalström, Choki Gyeltshen, Nima Gyeltshen and Kezang Tobay
  • A Year of Observing Wild Cypripedium parviflorum var. makasin in Georgina Township, Ontario Canada by Edward McSweeny
  • Dendrobium bigibbum, Classifying for Exhibition and Approach to Judging by Peter Adams
  • Habenaria by Nicholas Rust
  • Parting Shot - Hierarchical Nomenclature by W.E.Higgins
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