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April 2002
COS NEWSLETTER

NEXT MEETING  Tuesday  23 April 2002
starting promptly at 19h45 at Athenaeum,  Newlands


AGENDA

Disas – the latest information by Mike Tibbs
As mentioned before, Mike has had a love and interest in Disas for many years and will (he assures me) join us this month to share the latest cultural and hybridising information. 


There will also be the usual raffle and the facility to sell plants at the Sales Table.


MEMBER NEWS 
Sylvia Byren is recovering well after her short stay in hospital. We hope you will soon be stronger than before and feeling fit and healthy again.

Louis Vogelpoel recently received a Gold Medal from the South African Orchid Council for his outstanding contributions to orchidology. The COS would like to endorse this and congratulate him on this very well deserved achievement…we are proud to say you are one of us!

We are sad to say farewell to Wally Shave who has spread his wings and flown off, with his family, to live in England. We wish him everything of the best.


MARCH MEETING
After the AGM, Volkmar Schmidt discussed which plants he successfully grew and flowered under Cymbidium conditions. He has been able to have flowers all year round by careful selection and cognizance of individual requirements. Be prepared to move plants seasonally to accommodate those that need a dry winter eg. Brassia varicosum  or to protect developing buds or open blooms. Some may flower all year round eg. Oncidium flexuosum but are at their showiest at Christmas time. Try growing Cattleya loddigesii under cooler rather than warmer conditions. Thank you Volkmar for all the tips. One would need to have had a notebook and pen to help remember all the advice.

Thank you to Volkmar Schmidt, Vincent McKinnon and David Ronaasen  for the donation of raffle plants for the evening.

At the AGM, Peter Vurgarellis expressed thanks to all the Committee Members for the past year and especially to Sylvia Byren as retiring Secretary after a LONG haul …7 years which have been a “pleasure and a privilege” to quote her.


COMMITTEE FOR 2002

  President 
Vice-President
Treasurer 
Secretary 
Librarian 
Newsletter Editor
Member  
Member 
Member
Peter Vurgarellis
Hendrik van der Hoven
Jacques Jefthas
Carol Potgieter
Rachael Braver
Wendy Gersie
Volkmar Schmidt
Anton Hofmann
Sylvia Byren

Congratulations and thank you for making yourselves available as Committee Members. We wish you a successful and enjoyable year ahead.


AUTUMN SHOW
Venue: Kirstenbosch but a different hall
The Show will be in the building of the original bookshop just above the Sanlam Hall where we usually hold our Shows. There will be access from the upper parking area as well as from the gravel road behind as before.

Please be at Kirstenbosch on Wednesday 8 May with your plants for entry into the Show (from 11am until 6.30pm).

Judging will be on Thursday 9 May followed by the staging of the Show. Remember all those wonderful tips and encouragement you had from Margaret? Well we hope to see you there!

The Show is open to the public from Friday 10 May to Sunday 12 May.

The clearing up and after-party for the workers is from 5pm on Sunday 12 May. Please bring eats to share and your choice of drinks.

Ann Gray will be coordinating the Plant Sales Table. Please prepare and label your plants and bring them to the hall with an accompanying list. Contact Ann ph.785-5568 for all the details and requirements.

Any form of greenery will be appreciated as well as Spanish moss, leaves etc. Contact Mike Byren ph 794-6439 with queries and offers to help in any way.

There will be duty rosters at the April meeting, so volunteer and ease the load.

Show schedules and entry forms will also be available at the April meeting


EUROPEAN ORCHID SHOW AND CONFERENCE – 2003
Dates: 13 – 16 March 2003
Venue: Vincent Square, Westminster, London.
Dr Henry Oakley, the Chairman, has provided us with registration and programme details. Contact the Secretary, Carol Potgieter for details (083-625-9170).


HAVE YOU MADE ARRANGEMENTS FOR YOUR ORCHIDS?
What will happen to your collection when you die? For the continued health and survival of your plants, please make appropriate provisions. The COS has a draft codicil that offers you the opportunity to allow the Society to deal with your collection in an appropriate way if the need arises. Contact the Secretary for details.


COMMENTS FROM THE PLANT TABLE
Manfred Waltner’s Paphiopedilum bellatulum x primulianum was a pale green with fine maroon stippling. A nice looking hybrid with leaves reminiscent of Paphiopedilum malipoense. Manfred’s other Paphiopedilum henryanum is one of the newer discovered species that is now being used in hybridising. Its spots appear to be dominant.
Frans & Bes Gous’ Masdevallia Pariatoriana ‘Darling’ was beautifully grown in a wet bed.
The 3 perfumed blooms for the evening were Dendrochilum magnum with its drooping “tails” of strong yellow flowers from Eric Harley; Eria fragrans also with a pendulous spike of small, whitish flowers from Frans and Bes Gous and Volkmar Schmidt’s Zygopetalum Artur Elle. There are quite a lot of new Zygopetalum intergeneric hybrids now available that give different colours and form.
The van der Hovens brought 2 Stenoglottis fimbriatas, one from the Eastern Cape and the other from Eastern Transvaal. The Eastern Transvaal one was a much smaller and paler coloured flower than its relative from the Eastern Cape that was more like the colour and size we are used to seeing. Only those with sharp eyes or a hand lens were able to fully appreciate their Lepanthes calodictyon with its tiny flowers resting on top of the beautifully ruffle-edged round leaves. It enjoys cool growing conditions. The Platystele species from Ecuador was like a tiny orange “dot” to those without the assistance of a hand lens.


PLANT TABLE MARCH 2002
Thank you to Hendrik and Ellie van der Hoven who commented on the plants.

Vic Baber
Dendrobium-phalaenopsis Kiekie Belle
Phalaenopsis Loice Ochrall x Leudo Pulchza

Alan Bowley
Phalaenopsis Loice Ochrall x Leudo Pulchza
Sophrolaeliocattleya Tangerine Jewel

Frans & Bes Gous

Encyclia vitellina
Eria fragrans
Cattleya
Little Seagull
Laeliocattleya Mary Elizabeth Bohn ‘Royal Flare’
Masdevallia Pariatoriana ‘Darling’

Ann Gray
Cattleya Adelaide ‘Silver’

Eric Harley

Dendrochilum magnum

Anton Hofmann
Brassocattleya Languedoc x Singapore Welcome

Volkmar Schmidt

Comparettia ignea
Oncidium varicosum
Miltonia
Lanikea
Laeliocattleya Angel Love ‘Laina’
Vuylstekeara Mary Kavanagh ‘Deep Purple’
Zygopetalum Artur Elle
Odontocidium First Snow x Oncidium maculatum

 

Hendrik & Ellie van der Hoven
Stenoglottis fimbriata (x2)
Phragmipedium Andean Fire
Lepanthes calodictyon
Platystele species
Habenaria species

Brenda and Peter Vurgarellis
Paphiopedilum Calypso

Manfred Waltner

Paphiopedilum henryanum
Laelia perrinii
Paphiopedilum bellatulum x primulianum 
 

Plants of the Evening

1st Comparettia ignea from Volkmar Schmidt

2nd Paphiopedilum bellatulum x primulianum from Manfred Waltner

3rd Encyclia vitellina from Frans & Bes Gous


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CAPE ORCHID SOCIETY
P O Box 3347, Cape Town 8000, South Africa 
 
President: Peter Vurgarellis  Tel 021-6718166
email: vurgie@mweb.co.za
Vice-President: Hendrik van der Hoven  Tel 021-7902443
email: hendrik@houtbay.com
Secretary: Carol Potgieter Tel 021-7905421  
email: cpotgieter@protoil.co.za
Treasurer: Jacques Jefthas Tel 021-5114508
Librarian: Rachael Braver Tel 021-5570986
email: mworchid@mweb.co.za
Newsletter editor: Wendy Gersie Tel 021-7128721
email: gersie@iafrica.com 
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