The restaurant can only accommodate a party of 40 so be sure to book early!
Please call (305) 256-0483 to make your reservation!
Oct 262017
Oct 182017
Carlos Cahiz
Post Storm Orchid Care & Maintenance
OFE International will kindly be providing plants for our raffles this month! A big thanks to Carlos and OFE!
Oct 052017
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Clerks to help AOS and SFOS judges on Friday, October 13.
If you’ve every wanted to see how orchids are judged at shows, here’s your chance!
We also NEED help at our Hospitality table. Just a 2-3 hour assist on Friday/Saturday or Sunday would greatly help the Society
Lecture schedule
Friday:
- 1 PM- Mac Rivenbark-Mac Orchids-Five top Orchids
- 2 PM- Dan Christensen-Dan & Margie Orchids-Vandaceous Culture
- 3 PM- Carlos Cahiz-OFE International-How to Care for your Orchids
Saturday:
- 1 PM-Axel Cahiz-Amazonia Orchids- Cattleya Culture-Spanish/English
- 2 PM- Carlos Cahiz-OFE Int’l-Introduction to Growing & supplies (Spanish/English)
- 3 PM- Segundo Cuesta- Quest Orchids-Cutivando Orquideas en el Sur de la Florida (Spanish/English)
Sep 062017
Unfortunately, we are forced to cancel our September Members Meeting!
Pinecrest Gardens is closed until further notice because of the cleanup they have to do from Hurricane Irma.
Our Miami International Orchid Show is still on.
The Watsco Center is fully operational.
We look forward to seeing everybody this October 13th through the 15th.
Aug 182017
Aug 142017
Axel Cahiz
Cattleya Cultivation in South Florida.
Axel Cahiz is the co-founder of Amazonia Orchids, a Homestead Orchid Nursery located at 17899 SW. 280th Street, Homestead, 33013, specializing in fragrant Cattleya orchids.
After studying at Clemson University, Axel dedicated his efforts to the hybridizing and propagation of cattleyas in his business.
In addition to cultivating his award winning cattleyas, Axel operates his own hybridizing laboratory where he does seed flasking and tissue culture.
Amazonia Orchids produces and cultivates most of its own orchid inventory in its 22,500 sq. ft. growing facilities.
Among the numerous national and international awards from major orchid shows, Axel won the Reserve Grand Champion Award at the 19th World Orchid Conference held in Miami in 2008.
Amazonia Orchids will be generously providing plants for our raffle table!
Remember, guests are always welcome at our meetings!
Jul 172017
Bill will have plants for sale as well as also providing plants for our raffles.
Remember, guests are always welcome at our meetings!
Jun 192017
SFOS Annual Awards Ceremony
This month we celebrate the achievements in orchid growing of our members
during the past year and install our new directors and board for the coming year.
Erna Maxwell, our judging chair, will also be giving a presentation on the proper way to groom our plants for presentation.
Those little things like properly staking and cleaning debris from your plants can make your prized orchid stand out from the crowd.
We can all learn a trick or two here.
OFE International Orchid Supplies will be providing plants for our raffles
Remember! Guests are always welcome at our meetings!
May 162017
Allen Black was exposed to the pleasures of horticulture at a very young age in central Pennsylvania.
Allen Black
Early exposure to houseplants, flowerbeds, and vegetable gardening was common for Allen in his formative years.
Currently, he is a hobbyist orchid grower and breeder (i.e., non-commercial) living in Richmond, VA.
Allen has been growing and breeding orchids for over 20 years.
His main breeding efforts have been directed at Brassavola-Cattleya alliance novelty hybrids.
He has registered over 70 of his orchid hybrids.and has also “dabbled” in daylily breeding, producing 12 registered daylily hybrids.
Please join us for what I’m sure will be a most informative and enjoyable program!
Remember. Guests are always welcome at our meetings!
Dan & Margie Orchids will be providing plants for our raffle!
Apr 132017
Larry Cox
Larry Cox: Multifloral Paphs
Larry Cox acquired his first orchid, a cattleya, over forty years ago. His second was a paphiopedilum, Paph. Maudiae ‘Magnificum.’ The cattleya is long gone, but he still has a piece of the paph. When he began with paphs, he commonly heard, “You can’t grow those in South Florida,” but the first one lived and bloomed, and the paphiopedilum collection continued to grow. In the mid 1980’s most of the other orchids were sold or given away, all for the love of paphs. In 1989 he moved from his South Miami residence to a more spacious property in the farming district of southern Miami-Dade County where he built his dream greenhouse of 3000 square feet. He has suffered setbacks, such as hurricane Andrew in 1992, but with perseverance and with the discovery of new paph species ,and the consequent new hybrids, Larry’s love of paphiopedilums has been renewed over and over again. In 1983 Larry won his first AOS award for Paph. Maudiae coloratum ‘Elektra’ AM/AOS, one of the first vinicolors. Since then his orchids have earned over fifty AOS awards, including four FCC’s.
Ten years ago, Larry retired from thirty-seven years as a teacher, the last fifteen teaching Advanced Placement high school English . He now spends his time reading, traveling, maintaining his property and, of course, growing paphs. Larry has experimented with other orchid genera and has found success with lycastes, phragmipediums, and pescatoreas. He has even rediscovered the wonder of cattleyas, particularly species.