January 2002
COS NEWSLETTER
NEXT MEETING TUESDAY
22 January 2002
starting at 19h45 at
Athenaeum, Newlands
AGENDA
Disas – the latest
information By Mike Tibbs
Mike Tibbs has “been
involved with Disas” for many years and will be joining us to share the latest cultural and hybridising information.
It is peak flowering time
for Disa uniflora so hopefully we will have some flowering plants at the meeting as well as the superb illustrations that I am sure Mike will have to supplement his talk.
There will be the usual
Plant Table, so please remember to bring your plants.
There will also be the
facility to sell plants at the Sales Table.
MEMBER NEWS
It is with great sadness
that we have to report the death of three of our Members since the last Newsletter. Sybella Schelpe died in November after becoming increasingly physically frail but always remaining mentally
vibrant and participative in her love for her garden and plants. Mooly Geben died in December after a brave struggle with cancer. We were fortunate to still have him join us at the November
meeting. Dennis Walter, although not active as a grower or Member over recent years died in late December. His plants were always well grown and often available to Members at the sales table at
shows. We extend our condolences to all the family and friends of these three who contributed so much to orchid growing.
Birthday greetings for
January go to Jean Dryden (14) and Meg Hannay (27).
Enjoy your special day.
NOVEMBER MEETING
The prize-giving and bumper
raffle ended the year on a high and was enjoyed
by all. We raised R545 for
the Ted Schelpe Colour Fund. Many thanks to
everyone who so generously
donated items for the raffle and bought tickets to
stand in line for a prize.
And stand in line you did! I’m not sure that I have ever
seen that long a queue for
raffle tickets.
We all enjoyed a wonderful
spread of savoury and sweet goodies for which
we thank the Members.
2002 SUBSCRIPTIONS
If your subscriptions are
still outstanding, please make every effort to pay as
soon as possible.
RECENT AWARDS
Sarie le Roux’s
Paphiopedilum micranthum ‘Barana’ and Paphiopedilum
Susan Bruce ‘Barana’ were
both granted Award of Merits in late December.
Congratulations and may
there be many more in 2002.
If you have a plant that
you wish to have judged, please contact Louis
Vogelpoel ( ph.021 686
8098) to make the necessary arrangements.
SOCIETY OUTING
There are plans to visit
Mike Tibbs’ nursery near Hermanus on Saturday 9
February. Confirmation of
this date, along with other details will be available
at the January meeting.
Please keep in touch with Sylvia if you are interested
in going or make sure you
are at the January meeting.
YEARBOOK 2002
This is an urgent request
for articles to be included in the next Yearbook. It is
only as good as the
contributions received from our Members. Please
consider sharing your
experiences and knowledge. I can be contacted by
tel/fax. 021 712 8721 or by
email at <gersie@iafrica.com> Articles should
preferably be in Microsoft
Word and colour illustrations are always welcome.
If you are attending the
World Orchid Conference and Show in Malaysia,
please pass on your
comments and impressions when you return as I wish to
report back on the event at
the first possible opportunity. Please consider
taking photographs that may
be of interest to our Members and let me have
them as well for
publication.
SHADE-CLOTH FOR SALE
Meg Hannay has various
lengths of new and nearly new shade-cloth for sale
at very reasonable prices.
If you are interested phone her at 021 712 7888 or
speak to her at the next
meeting.
COMMENTS FROM THE PLANT TABLE
There was an abundance of
plants with fragrant blooms this evening. If you
look for this in plants to
add to your collection, consider all of those brought by
Selma Ferreira as well as
Maxillaria tenuifolia (Meg Hannay), Brassocattleya
Angel Lace (Vincent
McKinnon) and Mystacidium capensis (Eric Harley).
Sarie le Roux’s Aerangis
spiculata was a real treat of about 13 cascading
‘angels’ on a pendulous
spike.
If you have Oncidium
kramerianum, remember not to cut the old spike as it
continues to grow and
flower again.
Frans and Bes Gous’
Mystacidium flanigani was of botanical interest and they
were complimented on this
well-flowered specimen. It is apparently not easy
to keep in cultivation for
any length of time. Their Masdevallia Limax ‘Darling’
had an apricot orange
flower with great potential.
Greig Russell’s
Cymbidium Alcor is also known as Cymbidium Kintoki. It is
Cymbidium aloifolium x
canaliculatum. This cross was made with the
“ordinary green
Cymbidium canaliculatum” and shows a great improvement
on its parent Cymbidium
aloifolium especially regarding its growth habit and
arrangement of flowers.
Greig says that he has a clone made with the very
darker flowered parent
Cymbidium canaliculatum ‘Sparkesii’ which is not a
very good grower. The red
pigments are very draining on plants and usually
lead to poor growers.
Volkmar Schmidt’s
Isochilus linearis had not been seen before at the COS. It
had beautiful bunches of
purple flowers with fynbos-like foliage. His Disperis
lindleyana was a
well-grown species, which is also not the easiest to grow in
cultivation. Volkmar warned
that one should be careful not to over water
Laelia milleri.
PLANT TABLE - November 2001
Thank you to everyone who
contributed!
Selma Ferreira
Encyclia
cordigera ‘Elmhurst’ x ‘Dark Vai’ HCC/AOS
Polystachya
Bella
Diacattleya
Chantilly Lace
Epilaelia
Little Nuggets ‘Mendenhall’ HCC/AOS
Frans & Bes Gous
Mystacidium
flanagani
Laelia
sanguiloba
Masdevallia
infracta var. longipipes
Angraecum
compactum
Miltonia
Play Girl ‘Cha-Cha’
Masdevallia
Limax ‘Darling’
Oncidium
Haiku Sunset
Ascocenda
Eileen Beauty
Odontonia
Susan Bogdanow
Meg Hannay
Maxillaria
tenuifolia
Dendrobium
victoria reginae
Paphiopedilum
St Swithin
Eric Harley
Mystacidium
capensis
Disa Tricard
Disa Yolande
Anton Hofman
Brassia
Chieftan
Sarie le Roux
Aerangis
spiculata
Paphiopedilum
tigrinum ‘Barana’
Paphiopedilum
venustum x Mystic Jewel
Sophrocattleya
Beaufort ‘South River’
Vascostylis
Pine Rivers ‘Pink Glow’
Vincent McKinnon
Oncidium
kramerianum
Laelia lobata
alba
Brassocattleya
Angel Lace
Bill Phillips
Paphiopedilum
Druid Spring
Greig Russell
Cymbidium
Algor
Volkmar Schmidt
Isochilus
linearis
Disperis
lindleyana
Cytorchis
arcuata
Laelia milleri
Encyclia citrina
Dendrobium
strebloceras
Oncidium
Gower Remsey
Oncidium
Golden Sunset (2x)
Paphiopedilum
St Swithin
Manfred Waltner
Polystachya
sandersonii
Cymbidiella
pardalina
Anguloa ruckeri
Phragmipedium
caudatum
Plants of the Evening
1st Aerangis
spiculata
2nd
Paphiopedilum tigrinum ‘Barana’
3rd
Vascostylis Pink Rivers ‘Pink Glow’
.... All these plants
were from Sarie Le Roux!
