The cooler weather of autumn brings out the orchid flowers, and the orchid shows, to serve as a teaser before the full schedule of the winter-spring show season begins after the holidays. There are many fine orchids whose primary flowering season is October through December and most areas of...

Weird and wonderful, Brassavola cucullata will add a conversation piece to any collection of orchids. Visitors often comment, "that's an orchid?". B. cucullata is the type species for the genus, yet unique with its fringed lip having a long, tapered tip. The species

Twice a year the American Orchid Society has a Members Meeting which is hosted by an affiliated orchid society. This week we’ll have the Fall 2009 AOS Members’ Meeting in California outside of Los Angeles at the fabulous Huntington Library & Gardens from October 16 – 19th. The meeting is being hosted by both the Huntington and the Southland Orchid Growers Show – this is the 50th Anniversary...

ONE OF THE AMERICAN ORCHID Society's greatest strengths is its judging system, which is recognized all over the world as being the finest. It is not the oldest, as the Royal Horticultural Society in London, England, has been judging orchids since the 19th century. But the AOS judging system has been around since 1932, when judging occurred only at national shows. At the first show, 13 awards were given, with the first one recorded going to...

Certain tropical orchids are well-suited and often used as landscape subjects in frost-free areas of Florida. Schomburgkia tibicinis (above) was one of them. I say "was", because although the orchid is still around, the name isn't. I will use it in this personal tribute