May 2016 - Ottawa Orchid Society

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S P I K E
Newsletter of the Ottawa Orchid Society
www.ottawaorchidsociety.com
May 2016
orchidae@storm.ca
May Program
jean@hollebone.ca
Past President
jean@hollebone.ca
Secretary
613-722-6738
douglas.vye@sympatico.ca
Cana Balay
613-523-6767
canaby@gmail.com
André Couture
613-233-7335
andrec.couture@sympatico.ca
orchidae@storm.ca
This May, the Society will host Calvin Wong of Tropical Garden Orchids from Vancouver http://
www.tgorchids.com/. He will present
Cymbidium sub-genus Jensoa (Asian cymbidiums)-- species, cultivation and hybrids.
Calvin is currently the President of the Canadian Orchid Congress, an AOS accredited judge with the Pacific Northwest Judging Centre, and Director of the
Vancouver Orchid Society. Prior to relocating to Vancouver in 2011, Calvin was an active member of
SOOS and the Toronto Judging Center of the AOS. Calvin travels around
North America for various speaking engagements and shows. He also
travels extensively around the world to participate in orchid shows as
well as observing orchids in-situ. Calvin specializes in Neofinetia falcata, a
charming Japanese species with a long history of cultivation.
(more about our speaker on page 3)
janet.johns@sympatico.ca
There will be no ORCHIDS 101 this month.
Publicity
Karina Isert
613-729-0175
k.c.isert@gmail.com
May is our last meeting for this current season. Next year’s program is
being finalized and will be published later this summer.
haydonm@rogers.com
Joyce Medcalf
613-659-2760
jmedcalf@1000island.net
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President’s Message
Hi Everyone,
I am pleased to report that we had a very successful show this year, with a total of 2,253
visitors over the two days. Our vendors were extremely happy and several of them were
very nearly sold out by the end of Sunday. Our vendor from Taiwan (Ching Hua) was so
pleased that he has already reserved a table for the 2017 show, something that has never
happened before!
A big Thank-You to the Show Committee for all your hard work, and to all the volunteers
who made the Show such a big success. Our society is very lucky to have so many people
willing to pitch in, and it really makes the difference. During the show I heard from several other societies that are not so fortunate and are struggling to find enough people to
keep their shows going. And of course it is the profit from the Show that allows the society to bring in world class
speakers during the rest of the season.
Our new location at the RA Centre worked out really well and we received excellent support from the staff for the setup, catering, etc. Thanks to Shelley Carbonetto, our contact there, for all the arrangements and I am happy to say that
we have already been able to reserve the RA for our 2017 and 2018 shows. Of course there are a few details we will try
to improve for next year, but these are in the nature of fine tuning rather than major changes.
Our speaker in May will be Calvin Wong of Tropical Gardens Orchids, who will give us a talk entitled “Cymbidium subgenus Jensoa (Asian cymbidiums) -- species, cultivation and hybrids”. Calvin is also the president of the COC, and this
should be a very interesting meeting. I hope to see you there.
Dave Cooper
In This Issue
May Program
1
President’s Message
2
More About Our Speaker
3
Vice President Wanted
3
OOS Results for Out-of-Town Shows
4
Show Report and Reminder
5
Orchidophilia 2016
6-9
AOS Awards
10
Upcoming Local Events
11
Upcoming Shows, Member’s Corner
AOS/COC Updates and Editor’s Note
12
Bill and Cindy Bruhm, visitors from
Nova Scotia specifically to attend
Orchidophilia 2016, going home happy.
(photo by Arlene Lang)
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More About Our May Speaker, Calvin Wong
Being the child of an Ikebana Master, Calvin has always been surrounded with flowers and plant materials
since a very young age. Having killed his first orchid (a white phalaenopsis) in lightning speed, Calvin did not
accept defeat and started to research how to successfully grow orchids. Little did he know what he got himself into.
Professionally, Calvin held various leadership positions with the Federal Government of Canada throughout
his career. He currently holds the position as Director in a Federal department under the Public Safety
Portfolio and was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2014 for his contribution.
Vice President Wanted for 2016-2017
Dave Cooper needs a second-in-command, someone who would like to take on the role of Vice President.
Duties are not onerous: a willingness to run the occasional meeting when Dave has to be away on business and to set a schedule for the out-of-town shows the OOS attends each year (guidance will be provided). This could be an exciting opportunity to get involved in the Society and to donate your time and energy to a good cause and have a lot of fun at the same time. Interested? Please call Dave Cooper at
613-256-2653 or e-mail Dave at orchidae@storm.ca. The term is one year.
Jean Hollebone
Montreal Judging Centre
The Judging Centre will meet on May 21st at the Montreal Botanical Garden. Members are invited to attend.
Judging usually starts around 12:30 p.m.
Diane Aubrey & Masa Matsuo receive
plants from Maria Martins for the OOS
Exhibit (photo by Arlene Lang)
Mélodie Courchesne, Angèle Biljan
and Roy John help out at the OOS
Show Table (photo by Janet Lang)
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Toronto Artistic Orchid Association (TAOA)
On April 9-10, the Society participated at the TAOA annual orchid show. We take this opportunity to thank
members who supplied plants for this show, namely: Angèle Biljan (3), Marcel Carrière (2), Janet Johns (2)
and Maria Martins (3). Our participation was a success and the following plants were awarded. This success
is also a reflection of our participating members’ dedication and support to our Society.
André Couture
Grower
Plant
Award
Angèle Biljan
Cattleya Jose Marti
Rhyncattleanthe Young-Min Orange
‘Golden Satisfaction’ AM/AOS
1st
3rd
Marcel Carrière
Cattleya Orglade’s Grand
Phalaenopsis No Name
1st
2nd
Janet Johns
Paphiopedilum haynaldianum
Cattlianthe Siamese Doll ‘Kiwi’
1st
1st
Maria Martins
Dendrobium Hsinying Scarlet
Phalaenopsis Fuller’s Scarlet
1st
3rd
The Ottawa Orchid Society Display at TAOA
Show. (photo by André Couture)
Les Orchidophiles de Québec
On the same weekend, Barbara Wysocka took another set of plants to Sainte Foy, Québec. The exhibit
placed 2nd in the 6-15 Plant Display Class and 3rd for the Visiting Society Class. Thank you to those dedicated Ottawa orchid growers who shared their orchids for this display. Photos of the OOS Display below by Barbara Wysocka.
Grower
Plant
Award
Maria Martins
Prosthechea (Syn. Encyclia) baculus
Encyclia Shinfong City
Phalaenopsis Gan Lin Fairy 'New Orchids' (Chian Xen Pearl x Mount Lip)
2nd
3rd
3rd
Barbara
Wysocka
Cattleya (Syn. Sophronitis) coccinea
Mormolyca rufescens
1st
1st
Marcel Carrière
Guarianthe (Syn. Cattleya) skinneri f.
alba
Phalaenopsis Tying Shin Pink Kite
2nd
Phalaenopsis Fortune Saltzman
Phalaenopsis King Car Yellow Girl
Dendrobium toressae
3rd
2nd
2nd or 3rd
3rd
Angèle Biljan
2nd or 3rd
2nd or 3rd
2nd
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Show Report for Orchidophilia 2016
Hard to believe it has been a year since our last show at the Sportsplex, and that our first show in the RA
Centre is now behind us! This year’s show was very successful and we would like to say a big thank-you to
all the Show Committee members and volunteers who worked so hard to make everything flow smoothly.
Being the first year, of course there are a few things that we could have done better, and I have been collecting ideas and comments from the Show Committee which we will try to include next year. But overall,
we were very pleased and we heard a lot of positive comments from the vendors and the exhibitors alike.
One vendor (Ching Hua, from Taiwan) was so pleased that he has already booked his table for next year!
This is a new record for us!!
We had a total of about 2,250 visitors over the two days and this was an impressive number especially considering the warm sunny weather we had that weekend. It was about 400 more than last year and most
people brought in a coupon, so the publicity was extremely effective. Thanks again to all involved in spreading the word, posting on Facebook and other internet sites, putting up signs, etc. From the rough numbers,
we estimate we made close to $8,000 profit, though of course we will need to wait until we have the final
numbers from Doug to be sure. This is a record for any show since I (Dave) have been involved (longer than
I like to admit!), and I am very happy that the RA Centre seems to be a good home for us in the coming
years.
Thanks again to Janet, our Co-Chair, and to all committee members and volunteers, and I hope you enjoyed
the show as much as I did. We would be lost without you!
Dave Cooper and Janet Johns
Co-Chairs
REMINDER
If you posted street signs please remember to bring them in to the May meeting so they can be saved till
next year. If it is more convenient for you, they can be dropped off into the carport at 1176 Castle Hill Crescent just off Maitland. Many thanks to those who have already returned signs. They seem to have stood up
well and can be reused next year.
Jean Hollebone
VENDORS’ AREA… WHAT A DIFFERENCE A
DAY MAKES!
(photos by Arlene Lang)
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ORCHIDOPHILIA 2016 SHOW RESULTS
Group Award Winners 2016 Alliance Award Winners
B.
Alliance
Cattleya Alliance
Description
Guarianthe skinneri
C.
Cypripedium Alliance
D1.
D2.
Phalaenopsis/Doritis Alliance
Vanda Alliance
E.
Oncidium Alliance
Phragmipedium Noirmont 'Stacey
Nöel' AM/AOS
Phalaenopsis I-Hsin Paprika 'Wilson
Choice' AM/AOS
Renanthera imschootiana ('Newberry'
x 'Saigon')
Brassia aurantiaca
F.
Cymbidium Alliance
G.
Dendrobium Alliance
H.
Pleurothallid Alliance
I.
Maxillaria Alliance
J.
Miscellaneous Genera
Pleurothallis omoglossa 'Hill Island'
CBR/CCM/CCE/AOS
Maxillaria tenuifolia 'Mother's Day'
CCM/AOS
Coelogyne parishii
K.
Fragrance
Bifrenaria harrisoniae
Cymbidium Devon Railway 'New Horizon'
Dendrobium hancockii
Exhibitor
Orchid Society of The Royal
Botanical Gardens (OSRBG)
Les Orchidophiles de Montréal
Crystal Star Orchids
La Société des Orchidophiles de
Québec
Joyce Medcalf
Sherry & Peter Decyk (OSRBG)
Southern Ontario Orchid Society (SOOS)
Above: Ottawa Orchid Society Display
Above left: Pleurothallis omoglossa ‘Hill Island’ CBR/CCM/CCE/AOS—
1st Place, Best Pleurothallid and winner of Hans Bode Trophy, Joyce
Medcalf
Below left: Cattleya Life’s Melody—2nd Place, selected for AOS judging although not awarded, Masa Matsuo
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Best of Class Award Winners and Visiting Society Award
Class
Description
Exhibitor
1
Exhibit of 1 to 5 Plants
Janet Johns
2
Di Ciommo Orchids
3
4
Exhibit of more than 26
Plants
6
Educational Exhibit
7
Visiting Society Award
Céline Camirand & Manon StPierre
8
COC Trophy
Joyce Medcalf
Above: COC Trophy Winner, 2nd Place—Exhibit of 6 to 10
Orchids, Joyce Medcalf
Left: Best in Class, 1st Place—Exhibit of 6 to 10 Orchids,
Janet Johns
Below: Exhibit photographs numbered
1. 2nd Place—Marcel Carrière
2. 3rd Place—Barbara Wysocka
3. 3rd Place—Helen Nitschkie
4. 3rd Place—Exotic Orchids Plus
1
3
2
4
7
Trophy and Special Award Winners
Award
Description
Exhibitor (Photo Number)
Photographs below by Arlene
Lang
BS
Best Species
HB
Hans Bode Trophy
SC-1
Show Chairman's Award
(Orchids)
Best Art Entry in Show
Exhibit of 26 or more orchid
plants
Renanthera imschootiana
('Newberry' x 'Saigon')
Pleurothallis omoglossa 'Hill Island' CBR/CCM/CCE/AOS
Exhibit of 6-15 orchid plants
(4)
BSP
American Orchid Society
Trophy
Best Plant in Show
(In honour of Pamela Gaskill)
Best Specimen Plant
Orchid Rhapsody;
archival paper and matting
Color Pencil Orchid
Elizabeth Kaminska (2)
AOS
BP
BAE
SC-2
Show Chairman's Award (Art
Gallery)
Joyce Medcalf (page 6)
Helgi Fatovic (1)
Student - Amy Pan (3)
4
1
2
3
8
Angèle Biljan and her Exhibit which was awarded 3 rd
Place—16-25 Orchids (photo by Arlene Lang)
Our volunteers manning (and setting up)
the Fragrance Exhibit
Standing: Karim Mattar and Ann Smutylo
Seated: France Tremblay
(Photo by Jan Johns)
Ed Lawrence (retired Head of the Governor General’s Greenhouse) and Amy
Hello Out There! 1st Place Photography –
Bullock (Horticultural Technician at the Governor General’s Greenhouse in charge
Cultivated Orchids awarded to Arlene Lang
of orchids) judging at the Fragrance Exhibit. (Photo by Jan Johns)
Dave Cooper’s ‘After the Rain’ (photo by Arlene Lang)
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Grower
Award
Plant (Photo number below)
Photographs by Michael MacConaill
77 pt HCC/AOS
Paph. Wössner Vietnam Love 'Crystal Star' (1)
81 pt AM/AOS
Cym. Devon Railway 'New Horizon' (2)
Magalie Simard
81 pt CCM/AOS
Paph. Dellaina 'Magalie' (3)
Sherry and Peter
Decyk
76 pt HCC/AOS
Den. Hawaii Spectacular 'Sherry's Choice' (4)
Le Jardin botanique
de Montréal
87 pt CCM/AOS
Ren. imschootiana 'Jardin botanique de Montréal' (5)
94 pt CCE/AOS
Bulb. falcatum var. falcatum 'Jardin botanique de Montréal' (6)
85 pt CCM/AOS
Phrag. Nitidissimum 'Jardin botanique de Montréal' (7)
AOS Show Trophy
89 pt Silver Certificate
'Dragon rouge' Exhibit (8)
Les Orchidophiles
de Montréal
1
5
2
6
3
4
7
8
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UPCOMING LOCAL EVENTS
Wild Blooming Orchids: The Showy Lady’s Slipper at Purdon Fen
Traditionally every year the pink Lady’s Slippers (Cypripedium reginae) bloom at Purdon Fen along with the
maroon pitcher plants and blue iris about the third week of June. The date of their peak blooming is announced on the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority web site http://mvc.on.ca/places-to-see/purdon/
where there are also explicit driving directions from Ottawa. If you go, and it is quite a show, park in the
second or lower parking lot. There are picnic tables so you can enjoy a brought-along lunch but the nearest
store is in nearby MacDonalds Corners about 8 km away. Alternately you can also visit Wheelers Maple
Sugar Farm which is close to MacDonalds Corners and well sign-posted. It features the Maple Heritage Museum which is very interesting and has a restaurant serving pancakes and farm-made sausages from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m., seven days a week. Also, gas up before you go, as there are no gas stations after Lanark. (Look for
the memorial plaque to my mother Dr. Elizabeth Arnason, a Carleton University professor who loved Purdon and was a life-long supporter of the fen.)
Jean Hollebone
Annual Native Plant Sale at Fletcher Wildlife Garden
http://www.ofnc.ca/fletcher/index.php#.Vy5_DY-cHIU
Philip Fry plans to be at the Fletcher Wildlife Gardens sale as usual
this year - and will have some Lady's Slippers, mostly the Cypripedium
parviflorum and Cyp. pubescens, and perhaps a couple of Reginae as
well. He wrote the following to me in his email:
The plants have "shown" growth quite a bit later this year than normal, but they look very good. I hope that they will be at least in bud
for the sale - who knows what the weather will do?
My prices run from $25 for single stems to $35 for double stem Yellows (even though the prices on the internet for the Parviflorum are
usually higher than the Pubescens, maybe because it is rarer); the Reginae start at about $45. If you should hear of people planning to
come to the sale, you might mention that stock is always limited, so
come as early as possible.
Jan Johns
The 8th Annual Greater Ottawa Water Gardens Horticultural Society Water Garden Tour
Visit ten gorgeous water gardens during the day and one fabulous water garden showcased during the
evening. Monies raised go towards local community projects.
Date: Saturday, June 25th
Times: Day 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Evening 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. (Rain or Shine)
Tickets: $20 each are available May 1st through 10 retailers (see website) around the city (cash sales only), or through the website with PayPal (Visa/MC) For more information, please visit the GOWGH website http://www.ottawawatergardens.com/
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UPCOMING SHOWS (compiled from COC website)
May 28 - 29: The Foothills Orchid Society: Orchid Show and Sale, Orchids for Everyone, at the Triwood Community
Centre, 2244 Chicoutimi Drive NW, Calgary AB
Jun 3 - 4: Bruce Peninsula Orchid Festival at the Parks Canada Visitor Centre at the Bruce Peninsula. Schedule and
Registration at www.orchidfest.ca
Aug 7: SOOS Summerfest at the Toronto Botanical Gardens, Lawrence Avenue East at Leslie Street, Toronto ON
Aug 10 - 18: The Orchid Species Preservation Foundation of Alberta is celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the
Founding of the OSPF at the City Hall, Edmonton AB
Sep 24 - 25: The Central Ontario Orchid Society: Orchid Show at Cambridge Hespeler Arena, 640 Ellis Road, Cambridge ON
Oct 1 - 2: The Orchid Species Preservation Foundation of Alberta is having its third annual orchid exhibit and seminar from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Salisbury Greenhouse, 52337 Range Rd 232, Sherwood Park AB
Oct 15 - 16: Eastern Canada Orchid Society: Orchid Show at the CÉGEP André-Laurendeau, 1111, rue Lapierre, Lasalle
QC
MEMBER’S CORNER: TIPS, TRICKS AND IDEAS
Thank you to Jean Hollebone for providing the information on Purdon Fen. I encourage all of you to share
what you do and what you have learned, anything orchid related. Please send me an email by the first of the
month to share book reviews, article reviews, even webinar reviews. I look forward to hearing from you at
janet.johns@sympatico.ca (despite the email address, I am Jan, not “the” Janet!).
AOS AND COC UPDATES
Please check your emails for American Orchid
Society and Canadian Orchid Congress updates.
Thank you to Cana Balay for making sure you get
them in a timely fashion.
EDITOR’S NOTE
Left: Marlene Young and Jan Johns pilot the COC
webinar series: Introduction to Orchid Care at Orchidophilia 2016. These webinars with educational material will be improved and provided to member societies for their shows and/or meetings.
What a show it was! Please join me in thanking Dave Cooper and Janet Johns for their leadership as CoChairs. We could not have done it without you both! Thanks to Michael MacConaill for submitting the AOS
award pictures so quickly. Many thanks to Joyce Medcalf for organizing and checking names and to Arlene
Lang for her amazing pictures and her dedication to proof-reading and checking layout for Spike.
Jan Johns
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May 2016 - Ottawa Orchid Society

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