Meeting:
January 11, 2012 6:30pm
Location:
New Hanover County Arboretum
Speaker: Steve Arthur
Subject: "Orchids from Pollination to Bloom"
January
Speaker: Steve Arthur is a
scientist who worked for the Medical College of
Georgia
in Augusta and with the Dept. of Veteran’s Affairs for thirteen years doing
research
on
animal tissue culture. For eight years, he taught middle school science in a
private
Catholic school in Augusta. He has two grown daughters.
Steve
began growing orchids thirty years ago. His current greenhouse in Graniteville,
SC,
where he and his wife now live, covers 10,000 square feet of growing area.
He
grows a “mish-mash” of things but tends to focus on Cattleyas and has been
making
crosses
for years. In his greenhouse lab, he also does contract work (such as sowing
and
harvesting seeds) for other nurseries. Steve is affiliated with Carter &
Holmes, frequently
selling
plants for them at the big Florida shows.
Once
a month, Steve drives to and from Graniteville to Greensboro to attend judging.
If
you visit Steve’s business, you enter his greenhouse via a large meeting room
where
his local orchid society meets and where he conducts classes on growing orchids.
This
meeting room is also home to sixteen birds—mostly Macaws but also Yellow
Winged
Parrots and Quaker Parrots. He says that he purchased each of the birds
while
at Orchid Shows.
Steve’s
presentation will be an overview of the production process from seed pod
to
blooming plant. He recently gave this same presentation at the Atlanta Botanic
Garden
where
it was very well received.
Steve
will be bringing plants to sell. He promises to have lots of “cute little
things”
that
you won't find elsewhere.
2012
DUES…are
due. $25 (Includes
a 2nd person in
same household)
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