Maryland Orchid Society

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The Maryland Orchid Society meets the third Thursday of the month beginning at 7 p.m. See the Meetings page for a full timetable.

The next MOS board meeting will be Thursday, July 10, 2008 (7:30 p.m. -- food at 6:30 p.m.) at The Smiths'.

Last month's and previous newsletters is available in PDF (acrobat) format (about 1 megabyte) online. CLICK HERE! You should receive a link to the current newsletter in your email if you are a paid up member.

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September 18, 2008, 7 p.m. -- Tom McBride to Anchor the 2008-2009 Orchid Year

Tom McBride, The Little Greenhouse, Baltimore, Maryland

Tom McBride, our show table chair, an AOS judge and one of our local orchid gurus, will present the show table cumulative results from 2007-2008 at our September meeting. Tom keeps track of ribbon winners for every class and notes each member who puts a plant on the show table, loans plants for away show displays and puts in an exhibit or loans plants for a display at our annual show. He will tell us who had a plant (or plants) on the show table the most times and who earned the most points/won the most ribbons in each class over the past year. He will give us the opportunity to pick out bonus plants if we earned points by bringing plants to put on the show table, and collect money if we earned points by winning ribbons!
This meeting always whets our appetite for more, bigger or better plants and starts off the year with an enthusiastic scramble for new plants to add to our collections. Tom will also talk about what the Show Table judges are looking for each month and how to improve your chances of winning a ribbon.

Native Orchid Conference July 18 - 21, 2008

The seventh annual Native Orchid Conference will be held at the height of summertime in the mountains of Appalachia. West Virginia University in Morgantown will be the "home-base" providing comfortable meeting facilities, lodging and food service. Meetings will be held on the Evansdale campus in the Gold Room of Braxton Tower. The forests and pastures of central Pennsylvania and eastern West Virginia will provide you an opportunity to see as many as 20 species of blooming native orchids.

During the four-day duration of the conference, two days set aside for presentations will alternate with two field trip days. Speakers will include both professionals and dedicated amateurs and presentations are scheduled for Friday the 18th and Sunday the 20th. Field trip sorties will follow each presentation day and will take place on Saturday the 19th - into the woodlands of south central Pennsylvania, and Monday the 21st - into the wilds of east central West Virginia.

Click here for Conference Brochure.

Click here for registration form.

What a show! 2008 Show special newsletter

This special Show issue of the newsletter brings you pictures of judging, exhibits, the sales area and some of our wonderful volunteers as well as results of the AOS judging and a brief list of major award winners. It was a strenuous week on a hard floor with cold, windy conditions for a few days and rain the day the Show opened but, in the end, we all survived and had a good time. The vendors enjoyed the show (and the food we brought in Friday and Saturday night), the public was awed by the beautiful displays and all of the orchids for sale - and (although our total sales were down from last year) we were pleased with the results.
Sunday night our set-up crew, plus a few more helpers, took down all of the backdrops for the displays, removed the plastic from the tables, put away the sales area equipment and supplies and then took everything to the storage shed before heading home. To these staunch men and women (yes!) with pickup trucks and/or strong backs who worked late to quickly get everything put away until next year, we owe a heartfelt round of applause! And to all of our members who worked at the Show, set up displays and bought orchids (!) and helped to make it a terrific Show

Click here to download -- be patient please 3.3 MB!

Show Table Entry Forms are now available online! Visit the Show Table page and download your PDF or JPG copy today. You can even fill out the PDF form on your computer at home and print really nice forms so Tom doesn't go blind!

The MOS brings together people interested in orchids to promote and encourage orchid culture, preservation, education propagation, hybridization, and all other orchid-related activities of interest to its members. Benefits of membership include a subscription to the Newsletter (email and web), voting rights, borrowing privileges from the MOS Library, monthly guest speakers, local judging, valuable door prizes, and much, much, more!

Click here to download a copy of the Maryland Orchid Society Membership Flyer, a beautiful full color poster to place wherever there are people needing the benefits of our fellowship!

If you are interested in orchid culture and would like to meet others with similar interests, we cordially invite you to join the ranks of Marylanders already enjoying the benefits of membership in the Maryland Orchid Society.

To join, mail an application form.

We invite articles, notices, etc. for inclusion in our monthly newsletter, deadline for inclusion is first Sunday of the month.

The official MOS official address is P.O. Box 5651, Baltimore, Maryland 21210

The next MOS board meeting will be Thursday, April 10, 2008 (7:30 p.m.) at Marilyn's house.