IT’S SHOWTIME!
Get ready for a wonderful Orchid Festival
at Fernwood on Mothers’ Day weekend!
This will be our first “Orchid Festival”---the accent will be on displays
and workshops for the public, as well as buying and selling opportunities for
our members and the general public. All
we need is a little co-operation from Mother Nature---please, please, please,
no cold rain or snow this year! Set-up
will begin on Friday, May 7, at 2:00 Michigan time---that’s 1:00 Indiana
time. Our plan is to put the sales
tables and the displays in the main exhibit room. The MOS sales area will again be just outside the exhibit
room. Educational displays and
workshops will be in the area just down the steps, and food will be on the
lower level.
Our vendors---Calypso, Hilltop, Green
Acres, Porter’s and Natt’s---will provide displays and workshops or
demonstrations. Our members will also
provide talks or demonstrations. We
would like to have continuous educational programs: workshops and talks will be supplemented by educational displays
and videos.
In addition to the displays by our
vendors, Dunes-Kalamazoo Orchid Society will provide a medium-sized exhibit and
MOS will have both small exhibits by one or two MOS members and a general MOS
display. Although there will be no
registration or ribbon judging, please label your plants so that the public
will know what the name of each plant is.
There will be a lovely etched-glass trophy for the display judged by the
public as the best exhibit.
In order to assign locations for displays
and make up a schedule of workshops, please contact Sandy at (219) 778-4457 or sohlund@csinet.net to sign up for a display or workshop as
soon as possible!
DISPLAYS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND WORKSHOPS, OH
MY!
We will need members to put on short
demonstrations or workshops for the public at the Orchid Festival on Saturday
and Sunday. Consider giving a potting
demonstration, show how to divide a cattleya, gather the different types of
potting media, display the life of an orchid from seed pod to flask, compot,
seedling and blooming size plant. The
public wants to know!
Our vendors (Hilltop, Calypso, Green
Acres, Natt’s and Porter’s) will also provide demonstrations. All the public needs is a little
information, some practice and a bit of confidence. Let’s try to inflict our orchid addiction on others…..
YOU MIGHT HAVE TO THREATEN YOUR ORCHIDS….
If speaking nicely to your orchids so that
they will co-operate with gorgeous blooms for our Orchid Festival at Fernwood
on Mothers’ Day weekend, May 8th and 9th has worked for
you, wonderful! But if it hasn’t, you
might have to show your plants the compost heap just to give them a little more
incentive to be at their blooming best for the show. Set-up will be on Friday afternoon, May 7th, starting
at 2:00 Michigan time, 1:00 Indiana time.
Hours for the Orchid Show will be 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Saturday and
Sunday. (Times listed are Michgan
time---Eastern Daylight Time.) Many of
you have already signed up to help out on the various committees, but we can’t
have too many volunteers. So if your
name isn’t on one of the committees below, it may be because the additional
sign-up sheet at the last meeting walked away and I didn’t see it! Please come on out to Fernwood, bring your
plants and workshop materials---there’s always lots to do!
ORCHID FESTIVAL
COMMITTEES
SET-UP (Friday, 2:00 EDT) TAKE-DOWN (Sunday, 5:00
EDT)
Rick H. Rick
H.
Rick R. Rick
R.
Vicky R. Vicky
R.
Dennis N. Gerry
N. + helpers
Tim R. Sylvia
G.
Sylvia G. Eldon
G.
Eldon G. Howard
H.
Howard H. Jean
and Harry M.
Jean and Harry M. Shirley
K.
Shirley K. Sherry
B.
Sherry B.
Jim Y. Rick and Vicky R.
Deb L.
Jean M. Sherry B.
Deb L. Deb
L.
Sandy O. Sandy
O.
Ann
K.
Shirley
K.
Luella
G.
HOSPITALITY SALES
Sylvia G. Dennis
N. (Saturday)
Harry and Jean M. Rick
H. (Sunday)
Shirley K. Sherry
B. (when needed)
WE NEED FOOD!
As always, we need members to bring food
for all the hard-working volunteers and vendors at our orchid festival. Greatly appreciated are salads, chips,
fruit, cookies, brownies, pop, breakfast rolls, donuts, juice, etc. for our
Friday evening buffet as well as Saturday and Sunday breakfast and lunch. We’re looking forward to all the wonderful
goodies that Michiana Orchid Society members bring to this event! Thanks!
SEND PLANT LISTS TO JIM YEAGER
Jim Yeager has again volunteered to make
the labels for plants in our exhibit.
Send your lists of plants to Jim at james.yeager@fourway.net .
Jim will make up
the labels during his “free time” at school….
CARL MILLER’S ORCHID COLLECTION
Many of you may remember Carl
Miller, a long-time Dunes-Kalamazoo member and excellent orchid grower. Carl passed away recently and Larry Galdes
of Calypso Art Glass is in charge of selling the plants in his collection. Carl had many Encyclia species and named
clones of Laelia species. If there are
plants that you might want, please call Larry Galdes at (269)383-4423. Larry would be able to bring the plants to
Fernwood if he knows of your interest.
Don’t delay.
April Minutes
The
April 10 MOS meeting at River Park Branch Library was called to order by
President Sandy Ohlund at 1:30. Two guests, Robert Florey and Elton Stevens,
were welcomed. The secretary's and treasurer's reports were accepted as printed
in the Newsletter.
Treasurer
Deb Longworth reported on money transferred to savings, culture books purchased
for the upcoming show, and reminded all to send in dues for the current year.
Newsletter
Editor Shirley Keim said the MOS Newsletter should be on the website by the 3rd
of each month.
Committee
Reports:
By
Laws committee held their first meeting. Sandy noted that redoing the by laws
will "move slowly."
Program
committee - Sylvia reported a full year of programs has been scheduled except
for location of the Christmas party. In August our Michigan road trip will be
expanded to accept an invitation from Rob Halgren to visit his "Little
Frog Farm" and see the large greenhouse he will be moving to that
location.
Show
committee - MOS members are urged to plan individual or small group displays
using a card table or other setting. These could include miniatures,
collectables, arrangements, pictures, artwork, needlework, etc. and could be
displayed either in the auditorium or the educational area. Sylvia said she has
plenty of black material to help with the displays. There will be no
registration and no judging. Education is the focus. Remember to label
everything - plants, videos, pots, equipment, etc.
Publicity
- Jean Moskowitz listed the radio and television stations she is contacting in
the Elkhart and Goshen area.
Further
show business - The five vendors will each have a display plus two tables for
sales. MOS and Dunes/Kalamazoo will also have a orchid displays. Displays and
vendors will be in Fernwood's auditorium. MOS sales will be in the hall, and
the educational programs will be down a few steps in the meeting room. The
entire Orchid Festival will be in one building this year.
Fernwood's
Mother's Day weekend also includes the Blue Lawn Festival with live music
outside, activities for children, and a buffet lunch on Saturday and Sunday.
New
Business - Mid-America Orchid Congress has their newsletter on line. www.midamericanorchids.org
The
list of new orchid hybrids can now be found on the AOS website instead of their
magazine.
The
10th annual Phal. Symposium will be in July at Union Station, Indianapolis,
according to Dick Wells.
Howard
Heines announced the annual Dahlia Society roots sale will be May 1 at High
Dive Park in Elkhart. Only $2.00 per root.
Bring
and Brag saw plants from Jim, Barbara, and Sylvia. Sylvia mentioned the
"whiskers" on her Phrag. "Windy Hill" grew one and a half
inches each day. Very long and impressive!
Jim
and John found willing buyers for plants they brought to sell.
AT
2:30 we adjourned for refreshments while Greg Filter and Sylvia Groat got their
laptops ready for the program on Wildcatt's orchid data base.
With
Greg and Sylvia demonstrating we learned how to find the parents of a specific
orchid, also about Wildcatt's various color graphs, lists of crosses, primary
and secondary hybrids, and genealogy of a specific plant. Updated twice each
year, the current complete version costs $139.00. New updates are $30.00 each.
Thanks to Greg and Sylvia for bringing their equipment and sharing it with us.
Respectively
submitted,
Barbara
Wich
Treasurer’s Report
April 10, 2004
Beginning balance $2421.96
Income
Dues 60.00
Expenses
AOS
books, Orchid culture, 50 253.50
Show
expenses, transportation 25.00
Transfer
to savings account 1500.00
Total expenses 1778.50
Ending Balance $ 703.46
Savings Account $2929.74
Respectfully submitted,
Deb Longworth, treasurer
LAST CALL FOR DUES
Almost all the dues are in so Deb hopes to get an up-to-date membership list out after our orchid festival at Fernwood. This is the last chance for the few who haven't renewed before your membership evaporates and newsletters become a thing of the past! Mail $10 ($15 family) to MOS, in care of Deb Longworth, 7451 E 900 N, New Carlisle IN 46552.
Refreshments
Here is the sign up
sheet for the coming months.
May Show at Fernwood
June meet at John’s
house
July meet at Sherry’s
house
August road trip or meet
at member’s house
September Sandy
October Jean
November Show at Holy
Cross
December Christmas Party