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Board of Directors
President / Editor:Rick Sobkowicz [email protected]
Vice President:Gerry Duffield 819-684-8487
Treasurer:Sylvie Girard [email protected]
Secretary & Publicity:Janet Johns [email protected]
Membership:Vicki Thomson [email protected]
Librarian:Emerson Harkin [email protected]
Program:Julie Mertens [email protected]
Show Chairman / Webmaster:David Cooper [email protected]
Past President:Anna Bilsky [email protected]
COC RepresentativeJean Hollebone [email protected]
AOS RepresentativeMargaret Haydon [email protected]
Conservation Representative:Marilyn Light [email protected]
Mailing address:Ottawa Orchid SocietyP.B. 38038,1430 Prince of Wales DriveOttawa, ON K2C 1N0
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This month’s meeting
Sunday, May 15, 2011@1:30 pmTom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview, Ottawa
Back to Basics” with members of the Ottawa Orchid Society&
General Meeting - Election of New Executive
th’s presentation is all about “Back to Basics”. We have asked someembers to lead small, hands-on workshops. Jean Hollebone will
r experiences with putting orchids out for the summer so they too canme summer sun and warmth. Julie Mertens will organize a repottingth potting materials and some pots, so bring a healthy, bug-free plantnd repot it, with some assistance if needed. This is after all the bestepot, with spring bringing on new growth in many plants, and it isecommended to repot new plants, such as those that may have beend at the show. We are lining up other workshops which will be ofo many.
u can make it to this meeting where you are sure to learn some tipsrets that will help you with your orchid growing and get greaternt from your plants.
meeting will also be a General Meeting at which time we will bea new Executive. This is also the last monthly meeting before we takeor the summer months.
NOTE: There will be no Orchids 201 this month.
get to bring your blooming orchids to our monthly show table.
The Ottawa OrchidSociety meets every third Sunday of
every month from September to May inclusive:30 P.M. at the Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview, Ottawa.
Guests are welcomeMEMBERSHIP: $25 from September 1 - August 31.
May 2011Newsletter of the Ottawa Orchid Society
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A NOTE FROM THE PRESIDENT (AND EDITOR)It’s hard to believe that our annual show was only 3 weeks ago. It seems like it was so long ago. Our show was a great success.There was no issue with parking this year and our attendance zoomed up to some 1,900 visitors from the 1,500 visitors we hadlast year. This marked increase in attendance along with the revenue from the sale tables to vendors, the Members’ Sale Table,and money raised from raffle tickets resulted in a profit for the Society. If you have show expenses to be paid, please submitthese bills to Sylvie Girard, our society/show treasurer, at this month’s meeting. If you are unable to come to the May meeting,please contact Sylvie Girard by e-mail or phone to tell her what bills remain to be paid. Once Sylvie has all the bills, she will tellus how much we actually cleared.
A great big thank you to our organizers, volunteers, exhibitors, and vendors. We had a wonderful show! We would not have hadthe success we had without everyone’s participation. Thank you, one and all!
The results of all the ribbon and award winners are now posted on the Society’s web site ( www.ottawaorchidsociety.com ). Toget to the page with all the award and ribbon results, go to http://www.ottawaorchidsociety.com/awards2011.html or click the linkfor “Shows”, then click the link reading “OOS Show Awards” and then click “Show Awards2011”. If you won a ribbon or award, please check our record listing as a number of plantnames have been either updated due to changes made in orchid nomenclature or neededcorrecting. Thank you, Joyce Medcalf, for checking all the plant names. Arlene Lang, ourSociety photographer, took hundreds of pictures of the individual orchids and exhibits and isbusy working along with Joyce and Dave Cooper, our web master, to get photographs putup on our web site against all the individual ribbon and award winners. This is a lot of work.Every effort is being made to get things up on the web as quickly as this can be done. In theinterim, we do have some pictures in this newsletter on the show. On the right is the orchidthat was selected as the Best in Show. It is Rhyncholaeliocattleya Ports of Paradise (Blc.Fortune x B. digbyana) and grown by Wilson Ng of Scarborough, Ontario. To give you anidea of the size of the blooms, we have Joe Hruska standing behind the plant. Joe is a bigman and these orchid blooms are spectacular and scented. Wilson had a personal exhibit atour show but this plant was in the Crystal Star Orchid exhibit where it was surrounded bymany other beautiful orchids, some belonging to Wilson and many others belonging to Ericand Ellen Lee of Crystal Star Orchids. Further on in the newsletter we have some morepictures of this beautiful orchid and some comments from Wilson on how he grew thisorchid and got this beautiful and pleasing presentation. Great work, Wilson!
On the left is a photo of the OttawaOrchid Society (OOS) exhibit, a creation by Marie Gauthier. Marie, is arelatively new member and this is her first time at exhibiting. Marie teamed upwith Jean Hollebone and our duo, along with a number of other OOSvolunteers, put this beautiful creation together. The props, including thefountain, were loaned to us by Ritchie Feed & Seed Inc. in Gloucester. Theorchids belong to different members in our Society. Great work, ladies, and abig hand to our novice artist and set designer, Marie Gauthier!Notwithstanding the work involved erecting this society display, Marie had apersonal display of her own in the 1-5 plant category.
Action has already started on next year’s annual show. Michael Barker hasbooked the Nepean Sportsplex Curling Rink for our 31
stAnnual Show and
Sale which will be held on Saturday and Sunday, April 21st
- 22nd
, 2012.
Every two years, our May meeting serves as a general meeting to elect a new Society Executive consisting of four members:President; Vice-President; Treasurer; and Secretary. These positions shall be filled by a vote of the general Society membership.As I have been Society President for two consecutive 2-year terms, our Society constitution requires that I step down and a newPresident be elected. Julie Mertens has been nominated to run for Society President. Gerry Duffield has served on the Board for4 years as Vice President and is stepping down to enjoy membership as a regular member. Jean Hollebone has been nominatedto run for Vice President. Janet Johns, the current incumbent in the position of Secretary has been nominated for Secretary andhas agreed to remain in this position if elected by the general membership. Sylvie Girard (current incumbent Treasurer) has beennominated for Treasurer. If anyone wishes other candidates to be considered, you may submit a formal nomination for anyelected position to the Nomination Committee headed by Anna Bilsky. The nominee must be a member of the Society in goodstanding, agree to stand as a candidate, and the nomination must be supported by at least three Society members in goodstanding. Nominations shall be received no later than the closing time announced by the President at the General Meeting atwhich the election takes place. We hope we get a good turnout of members to hold this election.
On another note, we are pleased to announce that Jean Hollebone has been recently confirmed as a Trustee of the AmericanOrchid Society. Congratulations, Jean, and the best of luck in discharging your responsibilities. This is our last meeting before webreak for the summer months. We hope to have some good workshops, some treats, and a surprise raffle for everyone whohelped out at the show. Hope to see you this Sunday!
Rick Sobkowicz,President and Spike Editor
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SOCIETY LIBRARYAs May is our last meeting before we reconvene in September, if you have any article(s) borrowed from the library, itwould be appreciated if you would return the article(s) this month. If you cannot come to the May meeting, please eitherarrange to have some other member return the article(s) to the Society librarian for you or contact the Society librarianto make some alternate arrangement.
MEMBERSHIP CORNERWelcome to our newest members:#1204 Suniti Pande #1207 Linda Kralik #1210 Doug Sinclair#1205 Jeannine Granger #1208 Jill Hopkins #1211 Birgitta Ewing#1206 Yvette Beaudoin #1209 Caroline & Kevin Mar
PLANNING FOR 2011-2012During the summer, our Program Chair, Julie Mertens, will be preparing the calendar of events and booking speakersfor next year. If there’s a topic, speaker or activity you’d like to see next year, please contact Julie by e-mail [email protected] or by telephone at (613) 858-5311.
Julie is also looking for an Assistant Program Chair, to help plan the program and other activities, such as group ordersand out-of-town orchid jaunts, and perhaps take over the position in the future. Please contact Julie for details or todiscuss.
Julie Mertens
Bar-B-Q @ LYNNE AND SANTOS of EXOTIC ORCHIDS PLUS
You and your family are invited for a Bar-B-Q atthe home and greenhouse of Lynne Guimondand Santos Peixe on Sunday, July 3
rdand
Sunday, Aug. 7th
from 11:00 am.
Lynne and Santos live at 20474 Concession 8,Green Valley, Ontario K0C 1L0. Please bringsufficient chairs for yourself and anyone elsecoming with you.
Let the cook know of the number of peoplecoming by calling 613-525-0164 or by e-mail [email protected] .
For directions, please see map on right which isalso found on Lynne and Santos’ web site atwww.exoticorchidsplus.ca .
JOURNAL of the ORCHID SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN (OSGB)Margaret Haydon has just received the group subscription of the Journal of the Orchid Society of Great Britain. Margaretwill have members’ Journal at the May meeting. Be sure to come to pick up your copy.
LOST AND FOUND ARTICLES AT THE ANNUAL SHOWIf you have found or lost any article at our show, please speak to either Rick Sobkowicz or Margaret Haydon. Rick has anumber of articles found at the end of the show: a plug in for a coffee maker or some such appliance, an adapter, anunclaimed orchid plant, and some other odds and ends.
OPEN HOUSE OF MEMBER’S GROW AREASIf you would like to hold an open house of your orchid grow area to Society members over the summer months (late
June / July), please contact Rick Sobkowicz. Open houses of members’ orchid grow areas will be posted in theupcoming June Spike. Deadline for getting your information to Rick is June 5, 2011.
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OOS Show Table for APRIL 17, 2011.Class judged by PLACE NAME OWNER
Cattleya Alliancejudged by Joyce Medcalf
1st Encyclia cordigera x Epidendrum floribundum Manfred Hey
2nd *Rhyncattleanthe Shinfong Dawn (syn. Potinara) Manfred Hey
Cypripedium AlliancePaphiopedilumjudged by Joyce Medcalf
1st Paphiopedilum Dellaina (Paphiopedilum delenatii x
Paphiopedilum chamberlainianum)Theresa Lafleur
2nd *Paphiopedilum Rosy Dawn 'Glory' x Paphiopedilum
Stardust Flight 'Flame'Theresa Lafleur
3rd Paphiopedilum Delophyllum Theresa Lafleur
Oncidium Alliancejudged by Joyce Medcalf
1st Psychopsis krameriana Helgi Fatovic
2nd Oncidium sphacelatum Rita Shand
Dendrobium Alliancejudged by Joyce Medcalf
1st *Dendrobium Nestor 'Nagata' Helgi Fatovic
Phalaenopsis Alliancejudged by Joyce Medcalf
1st Phalaenopsis Taisuco Flush 'Candy Stripe' Rita Shand
2nd Phalaenopsis Baldan's Kaleidoscope 'Golden
Treasure' AM/AOSMarie Gauthier
2nd Phalaenopsis Jai Ho 'Pink Girl' Rita Shand
3rd Phalaenopsis Passion Doris de Margerie.
Vanda Alliancejudged by Joyce Medcalf
1st Sedirea japonica Manfred Hey
2nd Aerangis fastuosa x Aerangis articulata Manfred Hey
Miscellaneousjudged by Joyce Medcalf
1st Bulbophyllum purpureorhachis Manfred Hey
Best in Showjudged by Joyce Medcalf
Dendrobium Nestor 'Nagata' Helgi Fatovic
Member's Choicejudged by John Martin
Phalaenopsis Jai Ho 'Pink Girl' Rita Shand
Please note that all plant names shown with an * indicate a correction or change has been made to the name on theplant owner’s name tag. Winners please make changes to your plant name tags where corrections or other changeshave been made.
Thanks to our show table judges, all the members who brought their blooming orchids to the show table, Joyce Medcalf forproviding the show table results and correcting or updating the names of owners’ plants, and Jean Hollebone, our show tablecoordinator. Congratulations to all the winners for well grown and beautiful plants on this month’s show table. And many thanks toArlene Lang for the many beautiful pictures below and on the next few pages.
Well done, Growers!
Above, from left: Helgi Fatovic with her Best of Show winning Dendrobium Nestor 'Nagata' and John Martin with a beaming RitaShand who is holding her Phalaenopsis Jai Ho 'Pink Girl', the Member’s Choice winner. Great work, ladies! Photos by AreleneLang.
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Above, from left: a close up of some of the bloom’s of Helgi’s Dendrobium Nestor 'Nagata'; a close up of some of the bloom’s ofRita Shand’s Member’s Choice winner, Phalaenopsis Jai Ho 'Pink Girl', and, Barbara Wysocka and John Martin with hisPaphiopedilum Norito Hasegawa that won a ribbon at the Montreal Show. Photos by Arlene Lang.
Above, from left: Encyclia cordigera x Epidendrum floribundum grown by Manfred Hey; Phalaenopsis Taisuco Flush 'CandyStripe' grown by Rita Shand; and, Rhyncattleanthe Shinfong Dawn grown by Manfred Hey. Photos by Arlene Lang.
Above, from left: Paphiopedilum Dellaina grown by Theresa Lafleur; Phalaenopsis Baldan's Kaleidoscope 'Golden Treasure'AM/AOS grown by Marie Gauthier; Paphiopedilum Rosy Dawn 'Glory' x Paphiopedilum Stardust Flight 'Flame' grown by TheresaLafleur; and, Paphiopedilum Delophyllum grown by Theresa Lafleur. Photos by Arlene Lang.
Above from left: Psychopsis krameriana grown by Helgi Fatovic; Oncidium sphacelatum grown by Rita Shand; PhalaenopsisPassion grown by Doris de Margerie; and, Aerangis (fastuosa x articulata) grown by Manfred Hey. Photos by Arlene Lang.
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Above, from left: Sedirea japonica grown by Manfred Hey; and, three progressive photos of Bulbophyllum purpureorhachis grownby Manfred Hey. Photos by Arlene Lang.
April meeting activitiesOur meetings are what they are because of the many interesting and wonderful members in the society. Without theirinvolvement, support and enthusiasm, our meetings would not be what they are. So, in a snapshot, we would like to introduce toyou the following members:
Above from left: (Photo #1) Emerson Harkin, our Society librarian; Theresa Lafleur and her Mother, Terez Paksi, who both bringmany beautifully grown blooming orchids to our monthly show table; Ian Philips, a great vanda grower; Glen Hansen in the brownsweater and glasses who looks after our hospitality nook every month, and his protégé, Marcel Carrière (blue sweater andglasses) who makes great coffee when Glen cannot attend a meeting and has a great smile for everyone. (Photo #2) In thispicture we have Margaret Haydon, our AOS rep and great grower of paphs. and phrags; George Cook, a great lycaste grower;Joe Hruska, our expert cymbidium grower; and, Joyce Medcalf who grows a lot of neat, cool growing species and hybrids and alot of other orchids and judges our monthly show table every month. (Photo #3) On the far right is Manfred Hey, in his favouritegardening jacket, holding his Rhyncattleanthe Shinfong Dawn. Manfred resides in Pointe Claire, is a very active member in theEastern Canada Orchid Society (ECOS), and enjoyed our Society so much that he became an OOS member and comesregularly to our meetings. He always finds interesting orchids in his personal collection to bring to our show table. He is anenthusiastic member and a great addition to our Society.
Above from left: (Photo #1) Here is a picture of John Gaskill holding a beautiful blooming Phalaenopsis he just won from our raffletable at the April meeting. Next to John is Janet Sutherland who looks after our raffle at monthly meetings. If you want to buy araffle ticket, see Janet. (Photo #2) Next to John Gaskill is Stephanie and Roy John. John has recently undertaken with help fromother people both in the OOS and the Ottawa Field Naturalists Club to create a guide to be put on our Society web site of all thelocal wild orchid species. (Photo #3) Michael Barker who looks after our annual show set up is with Angèle Biljan of AngelOrchids. Angèle is an avid orchid grower, brings lots of blooming orchids to every monthly show table to everyone’s enjoyment,and is a part-time orchid vendor and a great source for orchids and orchid growing supplies. (Photo #4) From left is JulieMertens, our Program Coordinator and a very enthusiastic grower and workshop presenter; Marie Gauthier who has become awonderful addition to our Society through her involvement on numerous levels, and Henry Steger, a past OOS President who,along with Roy John, is working to put together an excellent resource on local wild orchid species on our Society website.
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Above from left: (Photo #1) Dave and Vicki Thomson, two of our longest Society members. Both have been very active in theSociety for many years. Dave has been Show Co-Chair for several years now and Vicki has been looking after the SocietyMembership for many, many years. (Photo #2) Here is a photo of the Photo Workshop held by Arlene Lang (in the dark purpletop). Margaret Haydon, Elizabeth Kaminska, Joyce Medcalf and Rick Sobkowicz (who took this photo and some of the others inthis grouping) listened to what Arlene had to share with us. Rick found Arlene’s mini lecture and show-and-tell just great and afterthe meeting bought with confidence a super little digital camera which he is enjoying tremendously. Rick remarked that he foundthe choices of cameras in stores overwhelming and would not have bought anything until he heard what Arlene had to say andrecommended. Thanks a lot, Arlene! (Photo #3) This is a photo of Julie Mertens holding a mini workshop explaining to membershow to report orchids. On the table Julie has a bottle of Peppermint Soap which is a great agent for getting rid of pests onorchids. Julie got the soap from Angèle.
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UPCOMING EVENTS – 2011June 3-4 Bruce Peninsula Orchid Festival. For more info, go to http://www.orchidfest.ca/
June 5 Southern Ontario Orchid Society (SOOS) Regular Monthly Meeting Sunday, 5 June 2011 at the TorontoBotanical Gardens in the Floral Hall at 1:00 PM. Thomas Mirenda will speak on "Orchid Hunting in CentralAmerica". Tom is the Museum Specialist for the Orchid Collection at the Smithsonian Institution in WashingtonDC.
Aug 7 SOOS Summerfest at the Toronto Botanical Gardens. All orchidists welcome. The Southern Ontario OrchidSociety (SOOS) is pleased to announce that Andrea Niessen and Sam Tsui will be guest speakers at thisyear's Summerfest. This annual event is open to all SOOS members, as well as to bona fide members of otherorchid societies. As this event is held on the August long weekend - Sunday, August 7, 2011 - it is not too earlyto plan your own calendar around this event. There will be 2 presentations:
Sam Tsui of Orchid Inn, USA (http://www.orchidinnusa.com/): News in multifloral Paphiopedilums & theircultureAndrea Niessen of Orquídeas del Valle in Colombia (http://www.orquivalle.com/): the Maxillarias and theirdiversity .
They will be bringing orchids for sale. SOOS will provide information on pre-orders and related cut-off dates,and any discounts offered. Please make sure that you check the SOOS website ( http://www.soos.ca/ ) formore details as August 7 approaches. This is the meeting where we all bring our favourite potluck dishes forour attendees to share.
Sept 24-25 The Central Ontario Orchid Society (COOS) Annual Show and Sale, Cambridge Hespeler Arena, 640 EllisRoad, Cambridge, Ontario. See http://www.coos.ca/
Oct 22-23 Eastern Canada Orchid Society, Hotel Espresso & Conference Center, Montreal. Phone 514-684-3904http://www.ecosorchids.ca/
Oct 28-30 Orchid Society of the Royal Botanical Gardens 680 Plains Rd., Burlington Show chair is Chris Foden, [email protected] web site: http://www.osrbg.ca/
Nov. 14-23 World Orchid Conference, Singapore 2011, “Where Old and New Orchids Meet”. Start planning now.http://www.20woc.com.sg./site/
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Ottawa Orchid Society’s 30th Annual Show and Sale
As mentioned earlier in the newsletter, our 30th
Annual Show was a wonderful success story. All the results of the ribbon andaward winners have been posted on our Society website. Thanks to Michael MacConaill, the AOS’ official photographer, pictureshave been provided by Michael and posted on our website the plants and exhibit that won AOS awards.
Here are the award winners:
Award Winners Orchidophilia 2011
Award Description ExhibitorAmerican Orchid Society Trophy 26 or more flowering orchid La Société des orchidophiles de Montréal
plants arranged
Best Plant in Show Rhyncholaeliocattley Ports of Wilson Ng(In honour of Pamela Gaskill) Paradise (Blc. Fortune x B. digbyana)
Best Specimen Plant Bulbo. lobbii La Société des orchidophiles de Montréal
Hans Bode Trophy Paph. esquirolei Margaret Haydon
Wayne Eyles Memorial Trophy 1 to 5 flowering orchid plants Marcel Carrièrefor effect
Show Chairman’s Award (Art) Fantasy in Order Omaima El-Tawil
On the left is the award winning exhibit erected by the members of La Société desorchidophiles de Montréal. It is a stunning exhibit with many exceptional and well grownplants. Photo taken by Rick Sobkowicz.
Below, photo taken by Rick Sobkowicz, is The Best Plant in Show, RhyncholaeliocattleyPorts of Paradise (Blc. Fortune x B. digbyana), grown by Wilson Ng of Scarborough,Ontario. (Editor’s note: It was previously called Blc. Ports of Paradise (Blc. Fortune x B.digbyana)). This orchid was in the Crystal Star Orchid exhibit. Rick contacted Wilson andasked Wilson to provide a short write up for publication in Spike of how he came to hissuccess with this plant. Here is what Wilson wrote by way of an explanation. Rick wouldlike to add that he pestered Wilson to include a photo of himself (photo on right below) sothat we can see what this grower looks like. Wilson grows many different and exceptionalplants and at a recent orchid show in Toronto, he won numerous awards and honours forhis plants. Congratulations, Wilson, on your great success!
“I am really excited that my cattleya has won the “Best in Show” for the firsttime in the Ottawa Orchid Show. I started my orchid growing hobby 20 yearsago before I moved to Canada in 1991. At the beginning, phalaenopsis andcattleya were my favourite orchids but I still grow a bit of some other genera.My emphasis has shifted a bit more to cattleyas in the last 5 years because Ifeel that cattleyas are really showy and elegant. This plant, Blc. Ports ofParadise, is a pretty oldclone. It has a very nicebright green color and avery pleasant fragrance.One of its clones hasreceived a FCC from theAmerican Orchid Society
a while ago. I grow my cattleya with coconut chips mixed with a bit ofmoss. All my cattleyas stay outdoors from around May to late October andthen they are moved indoors for the rest of the year. I fertilize them heavilyin the summer. I have built a wooden structure on my 20 ft. flower bed inmy backyard and all my cattleyas are hanging except the really big andheavy ones which sit close to ground level. I grow my cattleyas with about30% shade in the summer to prevent sun burn. On the far right is a pictureof our fantastic orchid grower, Wilson Ng. Thank you, Wilson for providing this picture.
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Two weeks before the show, my Blc. Ports of Paradise cattleya only had about 5 flowers open and I knew it wouldn’t have allthe flower buds open unless we had some warm days. Unfortunately, the temperatures were around 10C during the day whichwould not be enough to facilitate the flowers to open within the next 2 weeks. I decided to turn my heat on to around 25C duringday time, and the night time temperature dropped down to around 20C. In 2 weeks time, 4 more flowers opened to produce thefantastic array of flowers I have now. Since all the flower spikes are more or less at the same height, the orchid was staked forthe blooms to form a circle. The finished look is really fresh and elegant and I am very happy with it. I think the culture of anorchid is a very important element to having a nice orchid in the show. However, the timing and presentation of the plant is alsoan important factor to make your plant look its best.
The Hans Bode Award was won by Margaret Haydon for her Paph. esquirolei. This is an exceptional clone that has caught theeye of many paph. growers who have sought to get a division of this plant from Margaret. Congratulations, Margaret. She is
shown below standingnext to the SocietyPresident, RickSobkowicz, with alovely exhibit behindthem belonging to JanSmid (J.S. Orchids) ofWhitby, Ontario.Margaret purchasedthis paph. in a flaskmany years ago fromChanthorn Orchids inBritish Columbia.
The Wayne Eyles Memorial Trophy is generously donated by Wayne's wife Stella in memory of Wayne Eyles, a long timemember of the Ottawa Orchid Society and an active participant in many of our Shows. This award is one of three that Stella hadspecially made by Cairn Cunnane and is to be awarded to the best amateur display (Class 1, 1-5 orchids) by an individual orfamily. This award is only open to growers who do not sell plants under a business name, but is not restricted to members of theOttawa Orchid Society. This year, the first for this special award, the Wayne Eyles Memorial Award was won by MarcelCarrière. We were absolutely delighted to have Wayne and Stella’s son, Jason Eyles, on hand to present this award to Marcel.Jason was a long time exhibitor at our annual shows and competed for many years against Marcel and numerous other membersof our Society for the Best Exhibit in this category (1-5 plants). Marcel was absolutely delighted to win this beautiful award andhonour and was grateful that he did not have to compete against Jason.
Thank you, Stella, for yourgenerosity and keepingWayne’s memory in theforefront of our minds andheart. And thank you,Jason, for coming to Ottawaand renewing old ties withyour numerous, old friends.It was great seeing you.
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The Show Chairman’s Award in the Art Category went to Omaima El-Tawil for her beautiful artwork on silk titled “Fantasy inOrder”. Shown below adjacent to “Fantasy in Order” is the artist, Omaima El-Tawil, standing with her daughter, Sara El-Kady.In the center is the entry chosen for Best in Photography, “Cascading Trumpets”, by Mike Laking. On the far right is a pictureof Jane Logan who is responsible for the Art Galleria and flanked on either side by Marwa and Sara El-Kady who both spentmany hours helping Jane hang paintings and set up all the other many art works brought to the Art Galleria.
Here are the other Best of Class and Alliance Award Winners
Best of Class Award Winners
Class Description Exhibitor1 Exhibit of 1 to 5 Plants Marcel Carrière2 Exhibit of 6 to 15 Plants Joyce Medcalf3 Exhibit of 16 to 25 Plants Marsh Hollow4 Exhibit of more than 26 Plants La Société des orchidophiles de Montréal6 Educational Exhibit Flora Peculia7 Visiting Society Award La Société des orchidophiles de Montréal8 COC Show Trophy Joyce Medcalf
Alliance Award Winners
Alliance Description ExhibitorB. Cattleya Alliance Rhyncholaeliocattleya Ports of Wilson Ng
Paradise (Blc. Fortune x B. digbyana)
C. Cypripedilum Alliance Paph. Invincible 'Jeremie La Société des orchidophiles de MontréalLussier' AM-CCM/AOS
D1. Phalaenopsis/Doritis Phal. Brother Supersonic Le Paradis des Orchidées Inc.Alliance 'Alexandre'
D2. Vanda Alliance Sedirea japonica Crystal Star Orchids
E. Oncidium Alliance Onc. sphacelatum Exotic Orchids Plus (Lynne Guimond & Santos Peixe)
F. Cymbidium Alliance Eulophia guineensis 'Anne' La Société des orchidophiles de MontréalHCC/AOS
G. Dendrobium Alliance Den. nobile La Société des orchidophiles de Montréal
H. Pleurothallid Alliance Masd. Malcolm Adams Marsh Hollow
I. Maxilleria Alliance Lycaste Garfield La Société des orchidophiles de Montréal
J. Miscellaneous Genera Bulb. lobbii La Société des orchidophiles de Montréal
K. Fragrance Angraecum (magdalenae x Exotic Orchids Plus (Lynne Guimond & Santos Peixe)praestans)
L. Orchids in Use (Floral Violet Showers Rebekah Harris
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Arrangements)
M. Orchid Photography Orchid Sumie 2 Lilith Chanessian
N. Orchid Fine Art Fantasy in Order Omaima El-Tawil
O. Orchid Fine Crafts Branche Orchidées Judith Dufresne
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Other Show Pictures
The above are floral orchid arrangements created by the florists at Greenbank Flowers and Gift on Greenbank Road in Nepean,Ontario. The picture on the far left won the 1st place ribbon. The arrangement on the far right was created by Jean Hollebone ofour Society.
Eric and Ellen Lee ofCrystal Star Orchids arebusy at work setting uptheir vendor’s sale area.Eric and Ellen Lee hada beautiful exhibit withmany exquisite orchids.
On the right and middlephoto, Laurent Leblondof Le Paradis desOrchidées Inc. fromLaval, Quebec is busysetting up his sale area.In the photo on the farright, Ruthanne Gardinerof Hamilton Greenhouseis getting ready to meetthe public.
Above is Joe DiCiommo’s plant sale area. With all these great sale plants, Joe was doing a lot of smiling and a lot of selling.
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Above and below, just a few of the beautiful orchids to be seen in the exhibition area and the vendor’s sale area. Think youmissed buying anything?
Above, from left: photo of Lyc. Garfield 'Jardin botanique de Montréal' which received a CCE/AOS of 91 points; next, a seriesof photos of some of our organizers and volunteers: Dave Cooper, one of our Show Co-Chairs with Beverly Chan who soldraffle tickets at the show; Janet Duffield, Geraldine Hebert, and Dawn Wojtyk in the Hospitality area; and, Dave Cooper withMarlene Young who looked after Show Publicity with a great team of other members.
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Above, Bill Arthurs conducted the orchid tour; Margaret Haydon and Janet Johns handled enquiries from the public on orchidcare; and, Michael Barker looked after Show Set-Up.
Above, Henriette Watkins and Jon Rouleau helped to check plants into the “Plant Hotel”; André Couture, setting up the OOSdisplay; Julie Mertens at Members Sales area, and, volunteer Mckenzie MacDonald helping at admissions.
Santos Peixe and Lynne Guimond at their sale booth; Joyce Medcalf setting up her exhibit of cool growing orchids; and,Marilyn Light with her educational display and Jose Rauda who helped with the clerking during the ribbon judging andwherever else he could be of service.
Anna Bilsky (in the blue apron selling raffle tickets and helping in a number of other areas ) with a group of volunteers:Veronica Anderson, Robin McIntosh, and Jon Rouleau who helped wherever they were needed; Michael MacConaill, theofficial AOS photographer, being interviewed by a media crew about our show; and, Julie Mertens being interviewed on theshow by a crew from CBC.
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