The Atlanta Orchid Society Bulletin The Atlanta Orchid Society is affiliated with the American Orchid Society, the Orchid Digest Corporation and the Mid-America Orchid Congress Newsletter Editors: Mark Reinke & Valorie Boyer www.AtlantaOrchidSociety.org January, 2017 Volume 63: Number 1 JANUARY MONTHLY MEETING Monday, January 9, 2017 Atlanta Botanical Garden Day Hall - 8pm Speaker: Jason Ligon Atlanta Botanical Garden Orchid Center Assistant Horticulturist (864)378-5792 cell
[email protected] “Baby Steps For The Orchid Seedling Program” Jason Ligon has a background in eld research and horticulture. The annual swearing in of oces at the December 2016 meeting. While earning his B.S. in conservation biology from Clemson University, he mapped him the privilege to serve such In This Issue invasive plants for the National clients as the Loews Hotel, Ted Park Service at Fire Island Turner, and Tyler Perry Studios. 2 ATLOS Volunteer Listing National Seashore. He also 3 Events Calendar & studied abroad and worked on Jason volunteered at ABG for 3 President’s Message the island of Bioko in Equatorial years in outdoor horticulture and Guinea. While there he the tissue culture lab before 4 Minutes from the previous contributed to research making the jump to assistant Meeting concerning indigenous primates horticulturist for the orchid 4 Monthly Ribbon and orchids. center in 2014. Now he has the Winners opportunity to oversee the Before coming on board as the Madagascan orchid collection 10 Orchid Highlights assistant horticulturist for the and maturing seedlings from the orchid center, Jason worked in tissue culture lab among other 11 Recent AOS Awards from the Atlanta Judging Center interior scaping with Avant responsibilities.