Sheldon Takasaki, the owner of Carmela Orchids in Hawaii, will present our January program. His program is titled “Everything you wanted to know about Hawaiian Orchids and some other secrets”. If you have never heard Sheldon speak you are in for a treat!!
Sheldon is no stranger to SFOS. He was a vendor at the 11 WOC, held in Miami in 1984 and has been a vendor at most of our orchid Shows since 1985. It has been a couple of years since Sheldon has presented a program for SFOS, so we are thrilled to have him back to present the first program of the New Year.
As a young Hawaiian boy, Sheldon grew up picking “field orchids”, the flowers used to make Leis and to put in the drinks of tourists in Hawaii.
Carmela Orchids is located in Hakalau, Hawaii. The nursery was founded in 1960 and has grown over the years from a small collection of orchids grown on top of a bomb shelter to a multi green house operation with an in-house lab. Carmela Orchids is well known for their high standards of quality.
Carmela Orchids will be providing the plant raffle table as well as four special raffle plants.
We hope you will join us for this great program. Remember, Guests are always welcome at our meetings!
Guillermo Salazar
Program Chairman (program@sforchid.com)