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The Houston Happenings October 2020 | Volume 50, Issue 6 The Houston Happenings October 2020 | Volume 50, Issue 6 Prof. Harold Koopowitz to Speak Oct. 1 By Sarah B Professor Harold Koopowitz will little essay about growing hybrid “Oh, you are in the Orchid speak via Microsoft Teams at 7 Phalaenopsis. Society? I once had an orchid...” p.m. on Thursday, October 1. Please join us for the online Most everyone has heard His biography was included in meeting and prepare any this phrase, usually after an the September newsletter. questions for him to answer. acquaintance learns you are a The title of his presentation This is a rare chance to “meet” member of Houston Orchid is “A Survey of Phalaenopsis and learn from one of the most Society. Then it is revealed the Species.” His presentation will knowledgeable botanists and Phalaenopsis was a gift someone be much more detailed than this environmentalists in the world. bought at the grocery store, and they loved it and it lasted a long time and then it died or never President’s Message By Bill C bloomed again. Here’s a picture from a lovely home with just Greetings All. We are deeply sorry. However, such a plant. continued on page 2 On October 1 we shall be we are honored that Harold meeting on this year’s Harvest Koopowitz will be able to speak Moon with speaker Harold at our October meeting. All of Koopowitz. It is a good time to you please join us as we believe reflect how our growing season we have worked out the kinks we has been and make modifications experienced in September. for next year to improve our Besides only being an results as well as a turning point informative presentation when we should start preparing delivered by Harold, I would like our tender tropical plants for our meeting to feel more local so the upcoming winter. I am just . I would like to request that glad it’s getting cooler so I can any members who wish to bring again live and work outside more up any orchid topics to let me comfortably. know so we can set time aside Unfortunately, as most of to entertain them. Let’s take the you know who tried to log in, most advantage of our online we had technical difficulties access. with our September meeting, Lots of great exciting local preventing our speaker and stuff happening and better most of our guests who tried to described in our newsletter. Take attend from joining the meeting. a look. Inside this issue . Meeting Oct. 1 | 1 A nonprofit organization established President’s Post | 1 in 1945, HOS is a recipient of the American Membership Renewal | 3 Orchid Society’s Distinguished Affiliated Q&A with Stacey | 4 Societies Service award. Orchid Auction | 6 Stay-at-Home Orchids | 10 Orchid Garden | 14 Calendar | 26 The Houston Happenings | October 2020 | Volume 50, Issue 6 Koopowitz, from page 1 Generally, I respond with A friend of mine has taken all around. These are filled with an expression of sympathy for the challenge to grow “Orphan pebbles to elevate the plants the poor plant’s demise and, Orchids” in her perfect slightly above water. Her reward depending on the level of microenvironment. Two sets of is a graceful space with happy interest from the potential HOS shelves are built on the sill at the plants that provide a year-round member, give a bit of advice. bottom of the screen on three display of blooms. As members If they have already killed the sides of an upstairs screened of the Houston Orchid Society, plant, I just say the plants are porch. It is well protected we all appreciate such rewards. designed to be lovely and last and has light from the North. I hope encouraging novice longer than a bouquet from Rectangular plant saucers 18 or growers will help our member- the florist at about the same 24 inches long line the shelves ship numbers to grow as well. cost. I assure them if they just want a decoration, it is perfectly acceptable to toss it out as if it were a spent floral arrangement. However, sometimes they tell me the plant stayed alive and they are trying to get it to bloom again. That perks me up and opens the door for more conversation. First, all the basic information, such as the proper way to orient it with the leaves following the sun’s arc, east to west, NO direct sun, an important detail. Then not to underwater or overwater, which they apparently know since the orchid is still alive. The main way to keep a Phal alive is to find an environment where it is comfortable and not too much trouble for parental We welcome guests at our virtual meetings. If you would like to maintenance. If the situation receive an invitation to join a meeting, please send an email to allows the required temperature [email protected]. drop that boosts flowering, even better! Page 2 The Houston Happenings | October 2020 | Volume 50, Issue 6 It’s Not Too Early to Renew Your HOS Membership for 2021! By Marsha F Have you thought about your • Complete the membership Be aware that if your 2021 HOS membership? information online at http:// membership has not been paid Houston Orchid Society www.houstonorchidsociety. by March 1, the 2021 directory continues to make every effort org/membership.html so will not have your contact to hold monthly meetings with that we have all your current information, and you may not guest speakers. Currently we are information. be included in the email list meeting online, but we intend • Then, mail your check to for the newsletter or other to meet in person again when it Houston Orchid Society, announcements. has been deemed safe to do so. Inc., P.O. Box 66325, Please take a few minutes to Please join us for our next online Houston, TX 77266. complete this vital task. Without meeting on October 1 at 7:30 you, Houston Orchid Society • Make your check payable p.m. would not exist! to Houston Orchid Society. It is NOT too early to mail Stay well! Dues for 2021 remain $30 in your 2021 HOS annual for a single membership or membership dues. The annual $45 for a family. dues are set by the Board of Directors and are due January 1 of each year. According to the HOS Bylaws, if dues are not received by the February From the Editor By Donna D meeting, membership shall be considered terminated. In this issue you’ll find a fun year. Please see the invitation on Since we are currently unable Q&A with Stacey P on page 4, page 9 to participate in a drive- to meet in person, you may and I thank her for being so by parade to salute their long renew your HOS membership enthusiastic about my request. and lovely marriage. Fr. Ted will for 2021 by taking the following If you would like to volunteer officiate a mass at their home steps: to be an interviewee, please earlier in the evening with family send me an email (donnad@ members only in attendance. houstonorchidsociety.org). Anybody ever heard of a Otherwise, I will call on a Tolumnia thief? I recently Nominating member at random again. acquired the pretty little orchid Committee Selected On pages 14–25 is a from Sheila and Laurie S, which I had nestled within a basket of The three members remarkable story from the Houston Garden Club about coir hosting a Cattleya. It was of the Nominating Bill B’s marvelous gardens (note there one day, gone the next. I Committee were the plural). suspect a rat or a squirrel. selected through I cannot wait for this year’s Enjoy the Stay-at-Home a virtual process. socially distanced orchid auction orchids. I am still looking The following that will happen on Saturday, forward to the day when we can individuals will November 7. More orchids, yay! ooo-and-ahh in real time over serve on the Learn all about the Auction and the plant table. (I know, I have committee: how you can help on page 6. said it before, twice, and I am Judith N and her husband, still wishing for that day.) Fr. Ted B Loren, are celebrating their Don G 50th wedding anniversary this Holly M Page 3 The Houston Happenings | October 2020 | Volume 50, Issue 6 Orchid Q&A with Stacey P We asked HOS member Stacey P a dozen questions about her passion for growing orchids. How and when did you become interested in growing orchids? Soon after meeting my husband, Luke, I was introduced to his mother, Shirley. She had a heated glass greenhouse chock full of gorgeous cattleyas. Over time I learned a lot from her and that started the ball rolling. What was your first orchid purchase? I don’t remember my first purchase, but my first acquisition was a freebie C. aurantiaca from the first meeting I ever attended Stacey P at Ecuagenera in Luke P with his favorite Cattleya, of the Central Indiana Orchid Ecuador, 2017 which has won many awards Society in 2006. It was covered in mealybugs and climbing out of the pot. Nobody wanted it, What species or hybrid is your and got back six flasks the so I took it home, spent weeks next planned acquisition? following year. Only 10 plants cleaning it up and managed to A couple of years ago I got survived, and I’m hoping to see save it. I have divided it many my only Dendrobium.
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