Favorite Hybrids and Species at March 3 Plant Table

Isn’t this time of year wonderful? Between getting back into the swing of in-person meetings and the time of year when many of our orchids like to bloom, it was wonderful seeing so many well-grown and flowered plants make their way to the March meeting plant table. Many thanks to Jay Balchan for providing more info for our members on the 13 hybrids on the plant table and to Nina Rach for gracing us with more knowledge on the nine species placed at the front of the room.

The members placed ballots voting for their favorite hybrid and species. The March meeting favorite hybrid went to a lovely fringed Cattleya hybrid, Rlc. Golf Green ‘Hair Pig,’ grown by Jay Balchan. The members’ favorite species was a tie between a perennial favorite species, Dendrobium lindleyi (formerly aggregatum) grown by Jay Balchan and an interesting large strap-leaved Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis with a unique, hairy-looking flower grown by Calvin Starr. Congratulations to you both, and many thanks to everyone who brought plants.

It’s one thing to see orchids online, but another thing altogether to see them in person and to see what we are capable of here in Houston!

For the April meeting, we look forward to seeing another fantastic plant table at our meeting. We will not have a regular meeting in May, but instead it will be the setup for the HOS Orchid Show and Sale. If you are not setting up your own exhibit table at the show, we would love to include your blooming plants in the HOS exhibit. The more the merrier!

—Brad Miller