April 2015 - American Orchid Society

April 2015

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The American Orchid Society Special Awards for 2013
The 2014 First Class Certificates
Cyrtopus elatus ‘Clara’, AM/AOS
Repotting Your Orchids
Judging Masdevallias
The Do Inn for Bugs
Ornithidium and Camaridium

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April 2015

PARTING SHOT

I RECENTLY RECEIVED a short note from an AOS member in corona del Mar, california, along with this ...

April 2015

Paragons

THE FIRST CLASS CERTIFICATE (FCC)

is the highest award the american Orchid

society giv...

April 2015

SPOTLIGHT

CRYPTOPUS ELATUS IS an angraecoid epiphytic orchid found on the islands of

Mauritius and Réu...

April 2015

FOR THE NOVICE

WE GET MORE QUESTIONS about

repotting than any other subject. some

folks never repot t...

April 2015

JUDGES’ FORUM

AN OCCASIONAL ORCHID flower

or plant is a spectacular example of the

best to be found....

April 2015

greatideas

WE’D LIKE TO use low-toxicity baits

for bug problems, but irrigation water

negates th...

April 2015

JUDGES’ FORUM

SINCE FIRST BEING described

in 1888, the species Paphiopedilum

rothschildianum has oft...

April 2015

The American Orchid Society’s Special Judging Awar...

Robert B. Dugger Award

Russ Vernon of New Vision Orchids received

the Robert B. Dugger...

April 2015

ORCHIDS ILLUSTRATED

THIS GENUS WAS named after

Luis Blet Gacel (1742-1808), a

Spanish (Catalonian) botanis...

April 2015

TOM’S MONTHLY CHECKLIST

MANY OF US in the plant world worry a

lot. It is the nature of nurturers to fret over
...

April 2015

GENUS OF THE MONTH

CONNOISSEURS OF UNUSUAL orchids

have long collected and grown maxillarias.

With a wide...

April 2015

PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

ON THE WEEKEND of May 17 and 18,

1997, over 3,500 orchid lovers passed

through the gat...

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