The COALITION for ORCHID SPECIES PRESIDENT S MESSAGE. April Meets every third Monday of the month

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1 April 2018 Meets every third Monday of the month The COALITION for ORCHID SPECIES PRESIDENT S MESSAGE at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens Old Cutler Road Coral Gables, Florida 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 facing 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 damage 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! Congratulations to all! Our speaker this month is Luiz Hamilton, who will speak on bifoliate cattleyas. Please be sure to attend this month s meeting, as Luiz will surely give us a lot of good information about these delightful 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 better 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

2 Coalit ion for Or chid Species Ap ril Pag e 2 Speaker of the Month: Luiz Hamilton Bifoliate Cattleyas of Brazil Luiz has been an aficionado of Cattleyas since he was nine years old when he cultivated 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 Bifoliate Cattleya species of Brazil such as C. aclandiae, C. amethystoglossa, C. nobilior, C. violacea and C. walkeriana. Luiz focuses on the Cattleya s habitat, climatic conditions, and color forms but concentrates mostly on valuable practical cultivation tips for the South Florida grower. Luiz works full time and travels extensively. He is an aeronautical 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 wonderful speaker! The Coalition for Orchid Species where good friends meet for a good COS! Find us at

3 Coalit ion for Or chid Species Ap ril Pag e 3 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 , Miami, FL Or see our membership chair, Vivian Wadell, at the next meeing and she will cheerfully accept your annual dues. And we thank you for supporting COS!

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5 Coalit ion for Or chid Species Ap ril Pag e 5 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!

6 Coalit ion for Or chid Species Ap ril Pag e 6 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 members, 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 donation 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.

7 Coalit ion for Or chid Species Ap ril Pag e Board and Committee Members Officers: President: 1st Vice Pres: 2nd Vice Pres: Treasurer: Secretary: Carlos Segrera Katria Whitfield Erna Maxwell Melana Davison Lou Lodgya Committees: Newsletter Editor : Membership: Raffle: Silent Auction: Photography: AOS Rep: Roster: Webpage Liaison: Refreshments: Advertising/Reporter : Trustees: Melanie Trexler/ William Capps Vivian Waddell Carmen Segrera Cynthia White Carmen Segrera/ William Capps Lynn Corson Melana Davison Melanie Trexler Lorraine Lee TBD Michele De Bianchi, Juraj Kojs, Cynthia White, and Javier Morejon

8 Coalit ion for Or chid Species Ap ril Pag e 8 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 orchidrelated 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!

9 A p ri l May 18, 19, 20, :00am - 5:00pm Fruit & Spice Park SW 187th Ave. Homestead, Florida 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 begins at 3:00 p.m. Classes Our renowned lecture series taps into the vast knowledge of visiting orchid growers from around the world to present topics of interest to all orchid collectors. All lectures are free. For more information, Don t miss this amazing local event!