Southland Orchid

 Show Committee

October 15-19, 2009

2009 Southland Orchid Show 

and The AOS Fall Trustee's Meeting.

Visit the AOS website 

We are also excited to celebrate our 50th Anniversary!  

Come celebrate 1959-2009 just dreaming of California!

Southland Orchid Show and AOS Members Meeting Speakers

Friday October 16th

12:30 p.m. Peter Tobias, Orchid Conservation Strategies and Opportunities through the Orchid Conservation Alliance.

2:00 p.m. Tom Harper, Species That Make Up Modern Pot- Plant Phalaenopsis.

3:30 p.m. Bob Lauri, California Native Orchids.

Saturday October 17th

12:30 p.m. James Rose, Fine Forms of Ansellia africana.

2:00 p.m. Fred Clarke, New Trends in Cattleya Breeding.

3:30 p.m. Carol Seigel, The Sex Life of Orchids.

Sunday October 18th

 12:30 p.m. Paul Gripp, Remembering the Second Golden Age WWII Through About 1980.

2:00 p.m. Doug Overstreet, Growing Orchids Outdoors in the Los Angeles Area.

AOS Keynote Speaker Friday October 16th 

9:00 a.m. Harvey Brenneise, Darwin's Orchids: First case study on the origin of species by means of natural selection.

Slipper Orchid Alliance Speaker

Friday October 16th: 3:30 p.m. Glen Decker, Phragmipedium kovachii Hybrids.

International Phalaenopsis Alliance Speaker

Saturday October 17th: 2:00 p.m. Carlos Fighetti, The Latest from Taiwan: Fantastic More Than Phalaenopsis.

Pleurothallid Alliance Meeting Speaker

Saturday October 17th 4:00 p.m. Bryon Rinke, Intermediate to Warm Growing Pleurothallids.

The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens Website Link:  http://www.huntington.org