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