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 - July 2025

July 2025

This month brings us the second installment of Juraj Kojš's series on the forms of Cattleya violacea and Leon Glicenstein introduces us to his new hybrid in the genus Galeandra. Jim Cootes coninues his series on the genus Dendrobium with section Holochrysa and rounding out our features, Clare and Johan Hermans tell us about the Deutsche OrchideenGesellschaft's (D.O.G) recent show in Dresden, Germany; the rehearsal for D.O.G.'s hosting of the 24th World Orchid Conference in Dresden in March of 2026. You won't want to miss this WOC or the rich history of this part of Germany.

Rounding out the June 2025 issue

  • Tom's Monthly Checklist by Thomas Mirenda
  • My Favorite Orchid - Vanda garayi by Barb Schmidt
  • Why Will It Not Bloom, Part 3 Cymbidium by Ron McHatton
  • Collector's Item - Lepanthes guatemalensis by Judith Rapacz-Hasler
  • For the Novice - Sunburn, or ... Something Else? by Sue Bottom
  • Orchids Illustrated - Franz Paula von Shrank - Polymath by Wesley Higgins and Peggy Alrich
  • Book Review - A History of Orchids in South America, Volume II, Part 1 by Roland Schettler
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Coming in the August 2025 issue

  • Tom's Monthly Checklist by Thomas Mirenda
  • Why Will It Not Bloom, Part 4: Cattleya by Ron McHatton
  • My Favorite Orchid - Papilionanda Naoki Kawamura by Naoki Kawamura
  • Collector's Item - Trichoglottis atropurpurea by Judith Rapacz-Hasler
  • Orchids Illustrated - George de Alwis – lesser-known illustrator by Wesley Higgins and Peggy Alrich
  • On Some Confused Oberonia Species by Daniel L. Geiger
  • Gift a Youth Update - Making New Friends at the Deep South Orchid Society -Savannah, Georgia  by Louise Roesser
  • Grower's Corner - How I Built a Shadehouse by Richard Wong             
  • Dendrobium and its Relatives, Part 12: Dendrobium section Distichophyllae by Jim Cootes
  • Modern Hybrid Catasetinae by Fred Clarke
  • The Rostellum by Joseph Arditti and Hideka Kobayashi 
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