Upcoming Meetings & Events:
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16th - Monthly Meeting
COMPLEX PAPHIOPEDILUM HYBRIDS
Please join our October meeting as we welcome Hadley Cash, world renowned North Carolina hybridizer and grower of Paphiopedilums (also known as Lady Slipppers). Mr. Cash is the owner of Marriott Orchids just West of Greensboro, and a recipient of multiple FCC/AOS awards, including the 2004 Merritt W. Huntington Award for best FCC of the year.
Hadley Cash began collecting orchids over 30 years ago. As he gained experience growing them, he became intrigued by the unique, sometimes bizarre, sometimes elegant, look of the lady slipper (Paphiopedilum) orchids. They are easily grown in the home and come in a huge number of shapes and sizes. In the early 1990’s, he built his own greenhouse and began a concerted breeding program focused on producing the highest quality complex, novelty and species paphs. He opened Marriott Orchids in Kernersville, North Carolina.
Marriott Orchids has received over 250 awards from the American Orchid Society, including ten FCC’s (First Class Certificates). In the last few years, he has had five crosses awarded an AQ – (Award of Quality). This award is designed to recognize hybridizing excellence in producing a cross of exceptional merit.
In 2005, he won two AOS special awards for a plant he hybridized: Winwine ‘Dark Spell’ FCC/AOS. The AOS Trustees voted for it as the winner of both the W.W.Wilson Award and the Merritt W. Huntington Award, for 2004. The former award is for the most outstanding Cypripedioideae (slipper) awarded in that year. The latter award is for the most outstanding FCC awarded plant of any genus in the previous year.
Meeting will be held at the New Hanover County Arboretum
Doors open at 6:30 PM and the meeting starts at 7 PM
••• Mr. Cash will be bringing plants for sale prior to the meeting •••
REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR BLOOMING TREASURES TO SHARE ON OUR SHOW TABLE
For more information please call:
Byron Price: (910) 754-6906
Pam Layne: (910) 620-9349
JANUARY 16 – Tom Wise "BAKER'S DOZEN: My Top Thirteen Orchids for Southern Growers"
FEBRUARY 13 – Joy Lemieux "Insects & Pests on Orchids"
MARCH 13 – Graham Ramsey "Repotting with Orchiata™"
APRIL 10 – ••• CANCELLED •••
MAY 15 – Linda Thorne "Growing Miniature Orchids in Hotter Climates"
JUNE 12 – Bill Thoms "Bulbophyllums: the Largest Genus in the Orchid World"
JULY 10 – Linda Thorne "The Doctor's In: Diagnosing Problems with Orchids"
AUGUST 14 – Dr. Kristen Uthus "Japanese Orchids: The Small and Mighty"
SEPTEMBER 11 – Francisco Miranda "Bifoliate Cattleyas of Brazil in Their Natural Habitat"
OCTOBER 16 – Hadley Cash "Complex Paphiopedilum Hybrids"
NOVEMBER 13 – Lester Poole on the topic of Phalaenopsis Hybrids
DECEMBER 11 – Holiday Meeting
FEBRUARY 13 – Joy Lemieux "Insects & Pests on Orchids"
MARCH 13 – Graham Ramsey "Repotting with Orchiata™"
APRIL 10 – ••• CANCELLED •••
MAY 15 – Linda Thorne "Growing Miniature Orchids in Hotter Climates"
JUNE 12 – Bill Thoms "Bulbophyllums: the Largest Genus in the Orchid World"
JULY 10 – Linda Thorne "The Doctor's In: Diagnosing Problems with Orchids"
AUGUST 14 – Dr. Kristen Uthus "Japanese Orchids: The Small and Mighty"
SEPTEMBER 11 – Francisco Miranda "Bifoliate Cattleyas of Brazil in Their Natural Habitat"
OCTOBER 16 – Hadley Cash "Complex Paphiopedilum Hybrids"
NOVEMBER 13 – Lester Poole on the topic of Phalaenopsis Hybrids
DECEMBER 11 – Holiday Meeting
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Check out 2016 article in the Wilmington Star News about CFOS and Grower's Day:
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20150225/ARTICLES/150229921/0/living
Cape Fear Plant Entry Sheet (for monthly meeting show tables):
Check out 2016 article in the Wilmington Star News about CFOS and Grower's Day:
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20150225/ARTICLES/150229921/0/living
Cape Fear Plant Entry Sheet (for monthly meeting show tables):
| CFOS Plant Entry Sheet [2019] |