Peninsula Orchid Society

Peninsula Orchid Society Speakers Schedule: August 22, 2008

Stanhopea Culture

Douglas B. Pulley, MD

Dr. Pulley has been raising orchids for over 34 years now. It all started when his wife gave him a cattleya for his birthday on April 1st, 1974, and he gave her another three weeks later. Because of the Armacost & Royston moving sale, he had over 100 orchids by that August.

He moved to Los Gatos in 1976 and put up his greenhouse. He received his first AM/AOS award in 1979 on an Angraecum, a seedling purchased for $5 from the A&R sale. Soon he started breeding. His over 200 orchid hybrids include Cattleya, Miltonia, Dendrobium, Angraecum, Paphiopedilum, Phragmipedium, Cymbidium, and Stanhopea. He is the world's biggest breeder of Stanhopeas, having made about half of all hybrids ever registered. His plants have won over 25 AOS awards. He has spoken at seven societies in northern California, including San Francisco. He has been President and Vice President of the Santa Clara Valley Orchid Society a total of seven years. Professionally he is an Ophthalmologist.

You can visit his website at www.dpulleyorchids.com for complete instructions on Stanhopea Culture and how to bloom Stanhopeas in pots. The website also features photos of several Stanhopeas, Phragmipediums and others, but availability of plants is out of date. He welcomes visitors to his greenhouse in Los Gatos (by appointment only). Please call 408/399-3123 and he will get back to you.

Doug Pulley will also be providing an outstanding opportunity table.