The INFLORESCENCE. Our March 21, 2014 Guest Speaker is Karen Muir Hybridizing with Red Masdevalias

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1 The INFLORESCENCE Orchids for Amateurs South Bay Orchid Society, Inc. P.O. BOX 3793 Torrance, CA Cym. Forgotten Fruits Dorothy Stockstill Grown by Robert Fisher Our March 21, 2014 Guest Speaker is Karen Muir Hybridizing with Red Masdevalias Karen Muir is originally from Michigan where she began raising orchids around She was a member of the Michigan Orchid Society and held all of the offices of the Society including Show Chair, Program Chair, Vice President and President. Karen became an accredited American Orchid Society Judge in In 1998 she was transferred by her Company, Lincoln Mercury, to Irvine, California and retired in January She resides today in Laguna Niguel, CA. Karen also served five years as the American Orchid Society Chair of the Pacific South Judging Region and has traveled to Canada, Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, South Africa, England, and Japan to attend and judge orchid shows. She has lectured on the Society circuit in the United States, including the California Paphiopedilum Guild, the Slipper Alliance, and NCOS (National Capital Orchid Society) Paphiopedilum Forum. She has also lectured at two South African Paphiopedilum Conferences and the Paphiopedilum Forum in London, England. Karen is presently the Affiliated Societies Representative and Treasurer for the Orchid Digest. We will meet Karen at Mimi s Café for Dinner with the Speaker at 5:30 PM the evening of the meeting. Hatfield Orchid Nursery will provide the plant raffle table. Ikebana arrangement by Paul Tamae March 2014 South Bay Orchid Society page 1

2 March President s Message Thank you, to everyone who participated in our Spring Show. From set-up to clean-up, we could not continue these shows without your enthusiasm and support. It is our opportunity to showcase our hobby to the community and encourage others to join us. I want to personally welcome each new member that signed up during our spring show in Torrance. We re glad to have you as a member and we hope you will enjoy, learn, and have fun with us at the South Bay Orchid Society for many years in the future. A Special Thank You goes out to the volunteers from the Hawthorne Key Club, a local high school community club. Five members of the club served as volunteers at our show. THANK YOU! Many beautiful orchids were exhibited by our members, other clubs, and friends. Thank you for preparing your plants and bringing them in for display and judging. Congratulations to all the ribbon and award winners. The Best in Show award was presented to Joe Santy for the orchid Cym. Splatters Flamenco. Marla Corey, our Show Chair, again performed her magic in planning and coordinating a successful show. Thank you, Marla! The Society has acquired a number of Paphiopedilums from the collection of Billy Bates through the generous donation made by Norma Bates. You should look for those orchids on the Auction Table, a small number will be placed on the table in the next few months. On March 15th, June Brooks will be leading our annual bus trip to the Santa Barbara International Orchid Show. It promises to be a fun-filled trip including stops at Cal-Orchid and Santa Barbara Orchid Estate. Seats on the bus are still available, but will likely sell out soon, so don t delay. Contact June (310) to reserve your seat now, only $36.00 per person. At our next meeting on March 21st, our speaker Karen Muir, will be talking to us about hybridizing with red masdevailias. It should be an enjoyable and informative evening. We hope to see you there. Charles Brown Acting President P.S. We're utilizing a new program to generate the monthly newsletter mailings, if you experience any issues please let our webmaster know. Thank you. Welcome to Our New Members We are happy to welcome twelve new members to our society: Hui Ma, Erika Tiedmann, Bil Spillane, Angie Morante, Bill Bressler, Daniel & Linda Pack, Dottie Neil, Ingrid Schwartz, Audra Wist, Richard Rosenthal, and Rose Maria Nunez. Please be sure to meet them and make them feel welcome to SBOS. To our new members: When you come to the next meeting, stop by the membership desk to pick up your name badge and a new member package. We will include ten free plant table raffle tickets as our Thank you for joining SBOS. March 2014 South Bay Orchid Society page 2

3 SOUTH BAY ORCHID SOCIETY SPRING SHOW 2014 JUDGING RESULTS BEST IN SHOW Cym. Splatters Flamenco Joe Santy BEST OF SECTION Section I: CATTLEYA ALLIANCE C. Santa Barbara Sunset Showtime Bernadette Nazareno Section II: STANDARD CYMBIDIUM Cym. Splatters Flamenco Joe Santy Section III: NOVELTY AND MINIATURE CYMBIDIUMS Cym. Forgotten Fruits Dorothy Stockstill Robert Fisher Section IV: PHALAENOPSIS & DORITIS Phal. George Saurat Section V: VANDA & ALLIED GENERA Angraecum sesquipedale Section VI: PAPHIOPEDILUMS & ALLIED GENERA Paph. Wild World x Giant 8 Section VII: DENDROBIUMS Den. speciosum Grandiflora Section VIII: ONCIDIUM & ALLIED GENERA Onc. hastilabium Sylvia Eastwood Jerri & Nancy Larsson Don Goss Nick Braemer Nick Braemer Section IX: PLEUROTHALLIS GENERA Masdevallia Pat Akehurst Golden Zebra AM/AOS Don Goss Section X: OTHERS Calanthe yoouville EXHIBIT Ikebana Arrangement Nick Braemer Paul Tamae March 2014 South Bay Orchid Society page 3

4 Spring Orchid Show and Sale What a beautiful Spring Show and Sale we had. Everything ran smoothly thanks to the hard work of our committee chairs and everyone who came to help. Kayo Libiano and Charlie Brown recruited and organized the hosts and hostesses. They did a great job of keeping an eye on the showroom and answering questions the public might have, as well as staffing the plant hotel and working in the front lobby. Ron Henry and Larry Bergen organized the set-up of the show, which involved bringing all of our show supplies from storage and returning them. Thank you to everyone who showed up to help with this labor-intensive job and especially to those who stayed late to help with the final cleanup. June Brooks and Joanne Green kept the kitchen organized and the coffee hot. Everyone was well fed and ready to work. We have become well known among the vendors for the hospitality and good food at our shows. Thank you to everyone who brought in delicious food for our volunteers and vendors. Bob Streeter recruited qualified judges for our ribbon judging and for CSA and AOS judging. Karen Low, Art Hazboun, and Bob & Judy Fisher did an excellent job of getting the plants organized, which made the judging process on Saturday morning go smoothly. Joe Woods, our treasurer, spent long hours at the show keeping track of our gate receipts, recording the vendor fees and handling show expenses. Charlotte Morrison was at the Membership and Information table to welcome our guests, answer questions about our meetings, and to sign up new members. Thanks to her efforts we have twelve new members and several potential members. Art Hazboun and Larry Bergen made a lot of people happy by calling out the hourly winning raffle ticket number. The information collected as the raffle tickets are passed out gives us valuable insight into the effectivness of our advertising strategy. Karen Low, publicity chair, oversaw the printing of the updated posters and fliers as well as getting show information to area newspapers. Art Hazboun, our webmaster, kept our show website up to date with important information about our show as well as sending out hundreds of s to people interested in hearing about our show. Bobbie Davison and her fellow artists, all students of famed watercolorist George Lin, added to our show with their lovely artwork. Nick Braemer and Don Goss did an excellent job of informing our guests about orchid care and culture with Orchids-R-Easy talks. They did a wonderful job of letting people know that orchid growing can be easy. Thank you to everyone who cleaned up their plants and brought them in for judging and everyone who worked at our show. People, who attended, saw that we have an outstanding society with friendly, hardworking members. The Spring Show is over and planning has already begun on the Fall Show, which is September 20th and 21st at the South Coast Botanic Garden. Marla Corey March 2014 South Bay Orchid Society page 4

5 Opportunity! Our April speaker, Gene Crocker, is offering SBOS the opportunity to preorder plants at a 25% discount. See the information below. Carter And Holmes Orchids P.O. Box 668, 629 Mendenhall Road Newberry, South Carolina Telephone (800) PRE-ORDERS for Orchid Societies Although I will not bring plants for sale at the meeting, we do offer a 25% discount on pre-orders from our catalog or web site. You will also receive a Bonus plant for every five plants ordered. (Call to request a catalog if you do not have one) There is a charge for packing and delivery totaling 10% of each order. We recommend pre-payment for these orders, which will be delivered at the orchid society meeting. We prefer pre-payment using a charge card so we can adjust for sold out items and only charge for the plants delivered. If you place an order, please specify the name of the orchid society for delivery. Our web site, contains all of the items available in our catalogs. (Collections and other discounted items may be ordered but do not qualify for the society discount.) Plants will be bundled by customer name to assist in distribution. Plants will be delivered to the meeting. Orders need to be received at least by 10 days before the meeting date to allow time for processing. I look forward to meeting with you. Please directly to me if you have questions. twocrockers@gmail.com or call Carter and Holmes at Anyone may take your order as long as you specify the society name. RIBBON JUDGING RESULTS FOR FEBRUARY 21, 2014 AMATEUR Cymbidium 1 st : unknown white Phyllis DeCrescenzo 2 nd : unknown yellow Cathy Martinez 3 rd : Cym Candy Cathy Martinez Cattleya 1 st : Lc Firecracker Fely Fernandez 2 nd : Sophronitis coccinea Wilma Tawagon Dendrobium 1 st : Den gracilicaule Wilma Tawagon 2 nd : Den unknown pink Jerri & Nancy Larsson 3 rd : Den Colonial Sunrise Wilma Tawagon Epidendrum 1 st : Epi unknown pink Wilma Tawagon Paphiopedilum 1 st : Ruby Peacock x Hainying Maru Jerri & Nancy Larsson Other 1 st : Coelogyne Unchained Melody Wilma Tawagon ADVANCED AMATEUR Cymbidium 1 st : Cym Masa Mukoyama x Mulberry Harbo Geyserland Fe Woods 2 nd : Cym Portuguese Passion Fe Woods 3 rd : Cym Golden Girl Art Hazboun Cattleya 1 st : Dgmra. Memoria Jay Yamada Kauai 2 nd : Blc. Le Ibabilis Larry Bergen Dendrobium 1 st : Den Specio-Kingianum 2 nd : Den Gillian Leaney x Star of David SPEAKER S CHOICE Den. Specio-Kingianum Gene Crocker March 2014 South Bay Orchid Society page 5

6 South Bay Orchid Society Bus Trip To the 69 th Annual Santa Barbara International Orchid Show Saturday March 15 th, 2014 Cost : $36.00 / Person Long Beach Amateur Orchid Society The More Than Friendly Society, Est LBAOS Annual Orchid Auction Monday, March 10, 2014 PARKING LOCATION: We will leave from the K-Mart parking 500 Carson Town Center, on the southeast corner of Torrance Blvd. and Figueroa. Look for the bus in the parking lot closest to Figueroa. DEPARTURE & RETURN TIME: Check in at the bus at 7:15 am. We depart at 7:30 am and will leave the Orchid Show at about 3:00 pm to return to your cars at about 6:30 pm depending on traffic conditions. So, come join us! Bring a lunch or get one at the show; wear comfy shoes, bring your watch and a way to identify your plants. (A box with your name on it and some address labels are easy ways to carry your treasures home.) See you on the bus! 6:00 pm - Preview & Registration (Get your paddles!) 6:30 pm - Auction starts Visitors & Guests Welcome! Join us at our Annual Orchid Auction! Bid on quality indoor and outdoor growing orchids, plants and supplies from commercial growers and society members at auction prices. Start or expand your orchid selection. Obtain a gift for someone. Don t miss this opportunity! St. Gregory's Episcopal Church Hall 6201 E. Willow Street, Long Beach, CA (Between Palo Verde Ave. and Woodruff Ave.) Google Map: Contact Information: LBAOS website: info@lbaos.com Phone: Gary Putnam, (562) or Irma Hughes, (714) FOR RESERVATIONS & INFORMATION call June Brooks at Phal. George Saurat Speaker s Choice Den. Specio-kingianum Den. speciosum Grandiflora March 2014 South Bay Orchid Society page 6

7 Orchid Calendar Our future membership meetings are held at the South Coast Botanic Garden March 21 (3 rd Friday) April 18th (3 rd Friday) May 16 (3 rd Friday) Cultural sessions start 7PM General meetings start 8PM at South Coast Botanic Garden The next board meeting will be March 25 Call for more information South Coast Botanic Garden Foundation March 8 African Violet Show & Sale 10:30 AM Tram tour offered each Saturday 1 PM Please support our host, the South Coast Botanic Garden Foundation for any of these educational and fun filled events. For more information and verification of hours and events, visit their website South Bay Orchid Society Board Acting President: Charles Brown st Vice President: Nick Braemer ORCHIDNICK AT YAHOO DOT COM 2nd Vice President: OPEN Treasurer: Joe Woods JWOODS0123 AT YAHOO DOT COM Secretary: Larry Bergen LMJK AT EARTHLINK DOT NET Membership: Charlotte Morrison CLAZARMORRISON AT YAHOO DOT COM Newsletter Editor: Marcy Bergen MARCYMOUSE56 AT HOTMAIL DOT COM Show Chair: Marla Corey MARLACOREY AT SBCGLOBAL DOT NET Webmaster / Orchid Digest Rep: SPECIALORCHIDS AT SOUTHBAYORCHIDSOCIETY DOT COM Directors: Charles Brown CBROWN3141LUCY AT YAHOO DOT COM Karen Low ORCHIDS4KL AT HOTMAIL DOT COM SPECIALORCHIDS AT SOUTHBAYORCHIDSOCIETY DOT COM Director Emeritus: Bob Streeter RJS.GES AT GTE DOT NET SBOS Committee Chairs Librarian: Kayo Libiano Raffle Tickets: Cathy Martinez Refreshments: June Brooks Joann Green Ribbon Judging: Charles Brown Property Manager: Ron Henry Meeting Set-up: David Okihara AOS Liaison: Robert Streeter Southland Rep.: Marilyn Hill Sunshine: Kathy West Publicity: Karen Low Lost & Found A ladies navy blue zippered jacket was left at the spring show. If it is yours, please call Marla at March 2014 South Bay Orchid Society page 7

8 The Inflorescence South Bay Orchid Society c/o Marcy Bergen Juniper Ave. Torrance, CA Printed by AcroPrint 3545 Hawthorne Blvd. Unit B Torrance, CA (310) , Our Next Meeting is March 21, 3 rd Friday Orchid Sale at Yamada Company Featuring Hatfield Orchids 706 W. Gardena Blvd. in Gardena (10:00 a.m. to 1:00p.m.) Sale Dates March 8, 2014 April 5, 2014 May 17, 2014 June 14, 2014 March 21 23, 2014 San Diego County Orchid Society A Symphony of Orchids Scottish Rite Center Camino Del Rio South San Diego Info: Mariposa Garden Winter Festival 666 South St., Lakewood March 8, AM 3 PM info: Santa Barbara International Orchid Show Orchids in Focus March 14 16, 2014 Earl Warren Showgrounds 3400 Calle Real, Santa Barbara info: March 2014 South Bay Orchid Society page 8