Heart O' Texas Orchid Society

Welcome to Heart O' Texas Orchid Society!

If you have come to this site, you are most likely interested in Orchids or attracted by the beauty of them!

If you are an Orchid enthusiast, you should consider joining a society! At our society, we invite many different vendors/speakers from across the country, as well as from around the world. You get to see a lot of interesting Orchids, more than you would at any general garden store. Furthermore, the Orchids that some of the vendors bring with them come from many different countries and continents!

Please take a look at our meeting calendar and event calendar, and you will see that we have exciting events all year round! We will keep the calendars up-to-date, so please visit our site often.

If you are interested in being a speaker, and would like to participate in our speaker program, please click here to sign up.

News and Annoucements:

Heart O' Texas Orchid Society's
8th Annual New Growers Seminar,
Exhibit and Plant Sale
October 25, 2008

Seminar: 10:00am - 1:00pm,
Exhibit and Plant Sale : 10:00am - 2:00pm.

Lectures will include the 7 variables: Light, Temperature, Humidity, Air Movement, Water, Growing Medium & Fertilizing (called feeding). There will also be a lecture on Pest and Diseases. Free handouts will be available which are designed for the beginner to form a bases on how to grow different orchids, in the home, greenhouse or outdoors. Good information, questions answered, refreshments available. No charge for the seminar or exhibit, just come and learn.

November Program
Greg Butler
Warm Growing Cattleya’s

Greg grew up on the East Coast of the United States of America. He has been a Boston Red Sox fan since 1967. He was graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1981 with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration/Finance. For 15 years out of college he was employed with Wallace Computer Services, a national provider of business forms and computer supplies. Most of his time there was spent in sales and sales management, with a brief stint in the training department.

In 1996 he removed his monkey suit and noose in favor of shorts and a t-shirt, and entered the wonderful world of orchids at Oak Hill Gardens. He had the incredible foresight (and good fortune) to marry Liese Pigors (founder Hermann’s daughter) about 10 years earlier, hoping someday for a shot at orchid infamy. Upon joining the Oak Hill Gang he instantly became the “idiot son-in-law” that every family business is loath to take on board. The company has remained in business to this day despite his best efforts to run it into the ground. His duties include, but are not limited to, sweeping the head house and driving the van. He reports directly to his wife.

Greg and Liese have two intelligent and handsome teenage sons, Cameron and Jared. Greg’s hobbies include road cycling, skiing, guitar and drinking wine. He also likes to watch the sunset while holding hands dancing naked on the beach in the rain.

Hits, since October 2003


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