Upcoming Meetings & Events:
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13th - Monthly Meeting
MODERN PHALAENOPSIS HYBRIDS
"Singing the Blues: the New Color in Phalaenopsis"
Please join our November meeting as we welcome Lester Poole, President of the Catawba Valley Orchid Society. His topic is "Singing the Blues: the New Color in Phalaenopsis." He’ll be giving his talk on modern trends in standard Phalaenopsis breeding as well as the best culture and care for the orchid your collection is most likely to start with.
I have always had an interest in Horticulture. My Dad was an Engineer, and I was involved in numerous projects of his around the farm from the earliest age. Dad kept a large library on numerous items of interest to him, and one of these was an English horticultural manual. On one full page was an image of a large, white cattleya flowering under a glass dome. At age 6, I was hooked and kept going back to the image over the coming years. When I started school, I found the Bantam series of books, and one was on orchids. In the center, on a double page, full color spread was the most glorious purple cattleya imaginable growing and flowering on a tree limb in Columbia. Our family moved to Miami where I had my first orchid at the age of 9, a Phaius tankervillae which I promptly killed (The books stated orchids were epiphyte; this was an orchid, and ergo, an epiphyte) I learned through trial, observation AND failure.
I have been an active member of the AOS since the early 60's, and a member of many other national and international orchid societies over the 60 years I've grown orchids. My commercial experience began in 1983 when I joined Jones & Scully Orchids in Miami, as their national orchid marketing representative. In '84 I joined Dewkist Plants in Apopka, Fl, as their orchid specialist responsible for the acquisition and growing of more than a million phals over 3 years. In 1988 I founded Orchids of Florida in Florida that became Worldwide Orchids in '89. I left the commercial orchid world in '96 when I moved to Denver, NC and founded the Catawba Valley Orchid Society in Hickory, NC. I have remained active in orchids, participating in many talks at forums and society meetings. In 2019 I was one of three lead speakers on phalaenopsis at the International Phalaenopsis Symposium at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino. I collect heritage cattleyas and have been an active board member of the IPA since '97.
~ Lester Wyche Poole
PLEASE NOTE
This meeting will not be held at our usual location at the Arboretum. Instead, we will be meeting at the Hampton Inn & Suites located at 1989 Eastwood Road behind Port City Chop House
Doors open at 6:30 PM and the meeting starts at 7 PM
••• Mr. Poole will NOT 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 "Modern 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 "Modern Phalaenopsis Hybrids"
DECEMBER 11 – Holiday Meeting
Please visit the CFOS Facebook page for additional information or continue to check out the other pages on this website.
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] |