Heart O' Texas Orchid Society's 42nd Annual Orchid Show and Sale - A Feverish Delight!
Thanks to all who made it possible!
With the generous donation of member volunteers our 42nd annual show and sale was a truly successful event. The show brought a constant flow of visitors all weekend from Austin and beyond, including foreign visitors! We also gained several new members! A truly welcome outcome! Thanks to all who made it possible!
So many orchids. . . so little time. . .
Please join us at our next meeting
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News & Announcements
Mark your calendars for upcoming events. . .
- Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - Monthly Meeting.
- Saturday, June 8, 2013 - New Growers' Seminar
Our New Growers' Seminar is a free Saturday event open to the public and designed to share and educate interested folks on the fun and ease of growing orchids! Society Members share their experience and knowledge about orchid care, feeding and re-potting so bring your questions and/or troubled plants for this free seminar! (Zilker charges $2 entrance fee to the gardens)
Saturday June 8, 2013 from 11:00 am. - 1:30 pm.
Zilker Garden Center, 2220 Barton Springs Rd., Austin, TX
Pass the word and bring your friends!
Check out our 2013 Spring Newsletter
Newsletter published quarterly
Dear Members:
- An Invitation from Jessica of Backbone Valley Nursery:
YOU'RE INVITED.... ORCHID RE-POTTING PARTY
I need help in the orchid greenhouse weeding, re-potting, and dividing hundreds of orchids. Join me on one (or all) of the following dates and get hands on experience re-potting and dividing orchids. This is a great opportunity to learn from the pros! You might even get to walk away with a few orchids for helping out. Can't make any of the dates? Let me know when your available and we can make a date. I love any excuse to play in the orchid greenhouse! -Jessica
Wednesday May 15th from 2 pm- 5 pm; Thursday May 23rd from 2 pm- 5 pm; and Saturday June 1st from 10 am-12 pm. Call us with questions 830-693-9348 - A special thanks to Geoffrey Frost as co-chair and publicity chair who has spent months behind the scenes to get the word out about our show and to help recruit the judges and vendors especially with some last minute changes, not to mention his "jumping in" show weekend to do whatever he could to help make everything come off smoothly. He has chaired numerous shows in the past and he is a wealth of knowledge for this event. Thanks for sharing your time and energy for us and especially passing along your knowledge to new committee members.
- A huge "Thank You" to the following members who volunteered their time and energy to make our 42nd annual show such a success:
To Cathy Rider, Ginny Wortham and Mike Gurjack who made sure there was food for all participants and no one went hungry; To Monica Gaylord, Steven Moy, and Stephen Van Kampen-Lewis, for a spectacular display and to the members who brought their plants for judging and filled our display with orchids resulting in the AOS award for "Most Outstanding Society Exhibit";
To Jennifer Bird, Connie Devlin, Bobbie Lee and Sallie Delahoussaye for all their work on judging preparations and awards and to Geoffrey Frost for the Show Schedule; To James Rider for not only displaying his orchid photography, but for endlessly answering questions from visitors about our displayed orchids;
To Shirley Friesen, Chris Aiello, Lloyd Teal and Peggy Dudley, new members who jumped in and assisted with clerking and greeting visitors; To Robert Bermea who photographed the event and winning orchids and whose photos appear on our "Photo Gallery" page;
Last, but not least to our vendors, Clown Alley Orchids, Backbone Valley Nursery, M.A.S.A. Orchids, Miller's Tropicals, Orchid Konnection, Planting Art, Spring Orchids and Brite Ideas who supplied beautiful orchids and supplies for visitors to purchase in addition to donating plants and supplies for our raffles. Thanks to everyone who visited the show and brought their friends to enjoy the orchids!
- Don't forget to send in photos of your blooming orchids so we can post them in our photo gallery. You can e-mail any photo in jpeg format to webmaster@hotos.org.