President's Corner

Tuesday, January 12, 2009

About Growing Orchids

Friday 26 February

The Society's Annual Show and Sale, being by definition a once-a-year place to discover orchids and bring some home, tends to bring us new members who are more than a little uncertain about their own skills at blooming their orchid plants.

For that reason, and to convince you all that orchids are nothing special in the growing department (though very much different in the flowers themselves), we make February our introductory "Anyone Can Grow Month" for the meeting program. That's right, anyone can!

All our members and all the public are invited to enter their blooming orchid plants on Friday afternoon for competitive classes.

We offer our own local expertise in the form of members skilled at culture of various specialty types of orchids, available to you on the night of the 26th. There you may circulate around the room and learn how to grow all the major types of orchids, or spend the whole evening at one table and become an instant specialist of the orchid of your choice!

About Our Members

The Show is a spectacular occasion, not just for the opportunity to observe so many different kinds of flowers produced by the plants called orchids, but also to observe all the many varieties of volunteers within the Society. Your President has many occasions to observe the enthusiasm level and degree of involvement, of members in the various orchid fanciers' societies in California, at their annual shows. In truth, no other society displays both such wonderful flowering plants and such amazing blossoming volunteers as we at POS.

We invite our public to join us not just at our annual shows, but at each of our monthly meetings, to learn more about these most exalted members of the plant family and also, these most wonderful members of a plant society.

POS Meetings

Time:	7:00 P.M. Skill Session 7:45 P.M. General Meeting
Place:	San Mateo Garden Center 605 Parkside Way San Mateo, CA
POS Mailing Address:	P.O. Box 6894 San Mateo, CA 94403-6894

Take the Alameda de las Pulgas exit off of Highway 92, and head south. Parkside Way is located on the right between 26th and 28th Avenues.

The Peninsula Orchid Society meets the fourth Friday of the month, January through November and the third Friday of December.

For information regarding this month's meeting please go to the meetings page. The speakers page has more information on our past and future speakers.

About the Peninsula Orchid Society

Founded in 1946, the POS is a society of about 250 orchid enthusiasts and professional growers serving the San Francisco Peninsula. Our mission is to increase the awareness, appreciation, enjoyment, conservation, and cultivation of orchids. To this end we hold monthly meetings as well as organize plant sales, shows, and bus trips to local nurseries. The Peninsula Orchid Society is a nonprofit organization, affiliated with the American Orchid Society.