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 - April 2026

April 2026

Featured this month

Our April issue traditionally features the FCCs from 2025 and the new year-end special annual awards. This April's issue is, in a word, lavish. Carol Klonowski presents the 2025 FCCs - all 116 of them!  If that weren't enough, Nile Dusdieker's article entitled "Orchid Championship" presents the Society's 25 special annual awards in living color. In addition, this issue contains Part 3 of Graham Guest's series entitled "The Easton Dossiers" with spotted cymbidiums.

Rounding out the April 2026 issue

  • Tom's Monthly Checklist by Thomas Mirenda
  • Questions and Answers by Ron McHatton
  • Membership Committee Update - Nurturing Curiosity: Welcoming Elizabeth Rizik to the Gift-A-Youth Program Deborah Boersma 
  • Book review - Women, Art and Orchid by Roland Schettler
  • For the Novice - Tree Fern Baskets by Sue Bottom
  • Collector’s Item - Gastrochilus bellinus; An Eyecatcher in the Display Case by Michaela Douglas
  • Nomenclature Notes - Nomenclatural Curation of the Orchid Hybrid Register, February 2026 by Julian M.H. Shaw
  • Affiliated Societies Update - Who is the Venice Area Orchid Society and How We Keep an Active Society by Jay Loeffler
  • GREATIdeas - Telephone Wire Loops to Support Phalaenopsis Spikes by Ed Wright and Bill Tippit
  • Orchids Illustrated - Acineta — Mexico to South America by Wesley Higgins and Peggy Alrich
  • My Favorite Orchid - Encyclia Newberry Tuity Fruity ‘Maxted’s Yum-Yum’ AM-CCM/AOS by Catherine Higgins
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Coming in the May 2026 Issue

  • Tom's Monthly Checklist by Thomas Mirenda
  • Questions and Answers by Ron McHatton
  • For the Novice - Repotting by Sue Bottom
  • Membership Committee Update - Joseph: Growing Passion, Growing Orchids — A Youth Story Powered by the AOS Gift-to-Youth Program by Deb Boersma
  • Collector's Item - Lycaste Gladys Eljuri 'Wössen' by Franz Glanz
  • Orchids Illustrated - Jumellea – Star of Bethlehem by Wesley Higgins and Peggy Alrich
  • Cattleya Hunting in Brazil – Part II by Stephen Van Kampen-Lewis, Francisco Miranda and Chris Maupin
  • Grand Champion Cymbidiums of the Santa Barbara International Orchid Show - Part 2: The Last 40 years by Heidi Kirkpatrick
  • Bulbophyllum Section Plumata; An Overview by Wolfgang Rysy
  • The Easton Dossiers - Part 3: Heat-Tolerant Cymbidiums by Graham Guest
  • My Favorite Orchid - Cattleya Mikkie Nagata ‘Orchidlibrary’ BM/JOGA by Kunio Shiraishi
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