PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Meets every third Monday of the month April 2018 The COALITION for ORCHID SPECIES at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens 10901 Old Cutler Road Coral Gables, Florida www.cosspecies.com Dear Members: April showers bring May flowers!!!! Since we have not received much rain this month, we better continue watering our babies. When we see the kind of weather that other parts of the country are fac- ing—snow storms, tornadoes, etc.—we are very lucky. Don’t forget to spray your plants once a month with a pesticide (Orthene, Talstart, etc) to prevent attacks from thrips and scales. If you not have sprayed by now, do it as soon as possible to avoid dam- age to your plants. Thanks to all of you who helped set up the display at the Coral Gables Orchid Show at Fairchild Gardens. We won the prize for the best display, and Juraj won an award for one of his plants! Congratu- lations to all! Our speaker this month is Luiz Hamilton, who will speak on bi- foliate cattleyas. Please be sure to attend this month’s meeting, as Luiz will surely give us a lot of good information about these de- lightful catts. We are looking forward to this month’s presentation from Luiz. Carmen and I love bifoliate cattleyas. Please don’t forget to give us your thoughts on how we can do bet- ter for our club. Your ideas and suggestions are greatly appreciated by all of us at your Board of Directors. Thank you and happy growing!!!!! Your President, Carlos
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Meets every third Monday of the month April 2018
The COALITION for ORCHID SPECIES
at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens
10901 Old Cutler Road
Coral Gables, Florida
www.cosspecies.com
Dear Members:
April showers bring May flowers!!!! Since we have not received much rain this month, we better continue watering our babies. When we see the kind of weather that other parts of the country are fac-ing—snow storms, tornadoes, etc.—we are very lucky.
Don’t forget to spray your plants once a month with a pesticide (Orthene, Talstart, etc) to prevent attacks from thrips and scales. If you not have sprayed by now, do it as soon as possible to avoid dam-age to your plants.
Thanks to all of you who helped set up the display at the Coral Gables Orchid Show at Fairchild Gardens. We won the prize for the best display, and Juraj won an award for one of his plants! Congratu-lations to all!
Our speaker this month is Luiz Hamilton, who will speak on bi-foliate cattleyas. Please be sure to attend this month’s meeting, as Luiz will surely give us a lot of good information about these de-lightful catts. We are looking forward to this month’s presentation from Luiz. Carmen and I love bifoliate cattleyas.
Please don’t forget to give us your thoughts on how we can do bet-ter for our club. Your ideas and suggestions are greatly appreciated by all of us at your Board of Directors.
Thank you and happy growing!!!!! Your President, Carlos
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Luiz has been an aficionado of Cattleyas since he was nine years old when he cultivat-ed Cattleya violacea in a lathe house built by his father in the back yard of their home in Manaus, Amazon, Brazil. In his program, Luiz will review some of the most exotic Bi-foliate Cattleya species of Brazil such as C.
aclandiae, C. amethystoglossa, C. nobilior, C. violacea and C. walk-eriana. Luiz focuses on the Cattleya’s habitat, climatic conditions, and color forms but concentrates mostly on valuable practical culti-vation tips for the South Florida grower.
Luiz works full time and travels extensively. He is an aeronauti-cal engineer and has an MSc. from MIT. Luiz lives in Plantation with his wife and an extensive Cattleya collection.
Please come out to the April COS meeting to enjoy this won-derful speaker!
Speaker of the Month: Luiz Hamilton
Bifoliate Cattleyas of Brazil
The Coalition for Orchid
Species — where good
friends meet for a good
COS!
Find us at
www.cosspecies.com
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To all of you who have not yet paid your annual
club dues, this is your RENEWAL NOTICE!
Your 2017 COS membership expired on December of
last year! 2018 dues are payable now.
Please make your checks payable to COS:
Individual membership: $25; Dual membership: $40;
Family membership (3 + at one address): $50.
You may also send a check to
Coalition for Orchid Species
P.O. Box 563341,
Miami, FL 33256
Or see our membership chair, Vivian Wadell, at the
next meeing and she will cheerfully accept your annu-
al dues. And we thank you for supporting COS!
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Remember, we are a SPECIES society and we ask
you only bring orchid species for our silent auction,
not hybrids. If you want to bid on an orchid, please
decide how much you are willing to pay, bid that
amount and then we kindly ask that you not hover
around the table, so others may also take a look at
the plants that are being offered for bid.
You must be a member to sell orchids at the
silent auction.
Advertisers Wanted! Want to advertise your business in the COS
newsletter? COS offers great rates for publishing your company
business card in the newsletter each month. See Bill Capps or
Melanie Trexler for more information!
Newsletter Additions! Have an orchid-related announcement?
Have a fun or interesting personal story to tell about your trials and
tribulations growing orchids in South Florida? Have a great orchid
travel tale to tell? Send it to one of the newsletter editors by the
first of the month, and we may add it to the next COS newsletter
if space allows!
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Dear Members and Guests,
One of the ways our society raises money to fund
all the activities of our club is with the plant raffle. We
use the money to help put food on our snack table, help
purchase the end-of-year Holiday plants for our mem-
bers, help pay for the meeting room, and provide plants
for our displays at the major orchid festivals.
Please think of all the wonderful activities our club
provides and do not pass up our raffle table! Your do-
nation helps in every possible way. At one dollar per
ticket, you could win a plant worth much much more!
In addition to the orchid you may win, your donation
helps to keep our club alive, for everyone’s enjoyment.
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2018 Board and Committee Members
Officers:
President: Carlos Segrera
1st Vice Pres: Katria Whitfield
2nd Vice Pres: Erna Maxwell
Treasurer: Melana Davison
Secretary: Lou Lodgya
Committees:
Newsletter Editor : Melanie Trexler/ William Capps
Membership: Vivian Waddell
Raffle: Carmen Segrera
Silent Auction: Cynthia White
Photography: Carmen Segrera/ William Capps
AOS Rep: Lynn Corson
Roster: Melana Davison
Webpage Liaison: Melanie Trexler
Refreshments: Lorraine Lee
Advertising/Reporter : TBD
Trustees: Michele De Bianchi, Juraj Kojs,
Cynthia White, and Javier Morejon
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ITEMS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
Name badges and COS lanyards will soon be available for
members!
Paper name tags will be available at each meeting for
guests;
COS polo shirts will soon be for sale!
Please submit your ideas for fundraising to Carlos Segrera
or any COS board member—your ideas are valuable!
Have any orchid books you would like to donate to COS?
We no longer keep a physical library, as many books are
now available digitally. We can, however, accept orchid-
related books to sell as part of our fundraising efforts.
Remember to be counted at each monthly meeting so that
you can earn that Holiday orchid at the end of the year!
Please consider bringing a
snack item or drink to the
meeting in April: the more
goodies, the better! Bonus: if
you bring a snack, you will get
one free raffle ticket— how
wonderful!
Apri l 2018
May 18, 19, 20, 2018
9:00am - 5:00pm
Fruit & Spice Park
24801 SW 187th Ave.
Homestead, Florida 33031
Sales—Over 60 vendors from around the world make the Redland Festival one-of-a-kind. Shop for those rare orchids you had only dreamed of finding. Updated vendor list coming in February.
Judging—The Redland Orchid Festival is an AOS judged event. Entries will be received at the Show Tent in the park on Thursday May 17th between Noon and 3:00 p.m. Judging be-gins at 3:00 p.m.
Classes—Our renowned lecture series taps into the vast knowledge of visiting orchid grow-ers from around the world to present topics of interest to all orchid collectors. All lectures are free.
For more information, http://www.redlandorchidfest.org/