Englewood Area Orchid Society

February, 2020 Newsletter Also online at eaos.org

From the President’s Desk

We have just completed our second show of

the season with a beautiful display in

Venice. Ken and his team did a wonderful

job and I heard many nice comments about

our display. Great job, team. There were 65

plants from 13 people and we won 39

ribbons. We also had two special awards, one going to Sybil

Levien Bushell for her Cymbidium Mimi for Best Cymbidium

and Judy Russell won Best large Cattleya RLC Prada Green

Deluxe. They were both outstanding. Congratulations to all

and thank you for growing such lovely plants and displaying

them at the shows.

Now it is crunch time for the EAOS show on March 12, 13,

14th. Be sure and work with your plants, staking them and

cleaning them and preparing them for our show. Ken will need

lots of plants for our display so he is counting on you to register

them and bring them to the show.

This month our meeting will be held at our new meeting place

at St. David's Episcopal Church. It's located on the street

directly behind the shopping center with Bealle's Outlet, Save

A Lot, Stefanos and Richards. I think you'll be pleased with

our new location.

Also, don't forget we will now be meeting on the 3rd Monday

night of the month, so be sure and mark your calendar so you

don't forget.

Dues are now payable, so if you haven't paid already, the dues

are $15 per household.

Calendar

Meetings (except Aug. and Dec.) are on

the 3rd Monday of each month at St.

David’s Episcopal Church, 401 S.

Broadway, 6:30 pm.

Feb. 1 & 2 – Venice Orchid Show

10 – 5 Sat., 10 – 4 Sun.

Feb. 17 – Regular Meeting

Orchid Culture Class – 6:30 pm

Meeting – 7:00 pm

Speaker – Bill Nunez

On growing specimen Catts

Mar. 13 & 14 – EAOS show

Judy Russell’s Rlc. Prada Green Deluxe won Best

Large Cattleya in Venice show.

We will be presenting our slate of officers at the February

meeting to be voted on at the March meeting. The new officers

will start in April.

If you haven't signed up to help with the show, please call me

or email me so that I can sign you up. We still have lots of

opportunities for you to volunteer. I need to order the t-shirts

and I want to be sure that everyone has a t-shirt that volunteers.

Thanks for signing up.

We look forward to hearing Bill Nunez speak on "Growing

Specimen Orchids in the Cattleya alliance".

Mary Anne DiGrazia,

EAOS President

Meeting Date and Place Changed

As of the February meeting, EAOS will meet on the

3rd Monday of each month and the meetings will be

held at St. David’s Episcopal Church. The Church is

located on Broadway, which runs behind the strip

mall that houses Stephano’s restaurant. It runs

parallel to Indiana Ave. at the back of the mall, which

is half a mile south of Dearborn. The next meeting

date is Feb. 17.

EAOS Show 2020

Mar. 13 & 14 at Englewood United Methodist Church

Volunteers are needed for the following areas:

Admissions – (Taking money at the door.)

Saturday 12:30-3 - 1 person

Sat. 3:00-5 - 2 people

Raffle

Saturday 12:30-3 - 1 person

Saturday 3 to 5 - 1 person

Clerks – (You'll work with the judges - great opportunity to

learn from the judges. Friday, March 13, 7:30 a.m.)

We still need 12 people

Culture – (Easy job - handing out culture sheets. we'll have

AOS Orchids magazines that visitors may have and if they

want, can make a donation for the magazines.)

Sybil Levien Bushell’s Cymbidium Mimi won Best

Cymbidium at the Venice show.

EAOS display at the Venice show.

Treasurer’s Report DECEMBER, 2019 Beginning balance $19,146.99

Income

Xmas Dinner 300.00

Dues 15.00

Raffle 116.00

Show Income 200.00

Interest 2.43

Total 633.43

Expenses

Hills Rest. 825.00

Holiday Décor. 31.91

Holiday Raffle 136.56

Friday 12:30-3 2 people

3:00-5 2 people

Saturday 10-12:30 2 people

12:30 - 3 2 people

3:00 -5 2 people

Membership – (Encourage visitors to join our society)

Friday 10-12:30 - 1 person

12:30-3 2 people

Sat. 10:00-12:30 2 people

12:30 -3 1 person

3:00-5:00 2 person

Kitchen

Mary Commer needs help all 3 days in the kitchen. If you can

give her a hand please call 941-423-1284 or email

mscommer@aol.com. She also can use more food, so call or

email her as to what you can bring. Don't want to cook? She'll

take cash and turn it into food. She is a magician.

Set up

We can always use an additional hand to set up the hall on

March 12, 2020 and take down on Sat. 5:00.

We can't put on a great show without all our volunteers. Please

email tommaryanne@centurylink.net or call 941-697-9237.

This is a team effort.

Once you have volunteered, we need your t-shirt size so that we

can order shirts and you won't be left out. Don't delay,.call

today. Thanks.

January Plant Table

First Place - Paph Janet Kunkle

Nancy Morrison

Second Place &

Speaker’s Choice - Lc Edissa

Judy Russell

Third Place - Dendrobium hybrid

Joanne Roche

Best Species &

Members’ Choice - Bulbophyllum grandiflora

Carol Nissan

P.O. rent 92.00

Total 1,085.47

Ending balance $18,694.95

Respectfully submitted,

Helen Mcclaskie

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January Meeting Minutes

Minutes of EAOS Meeting January 13, 2020

Meeting was called to order by President Mary Anne DiGrazia

welcoming members and guests.

Old Business:

Sarasota Show – Ken and his team put together a beautiful

display for the show. We received a 3rd place and a check.

There were 40 plants exhibited from 11 members with 9 blue, 5

red, and 6 yellow, plus Best Phal. Won by Diana Leonhardt.

Half of our plants received a ribbon. Well done!

Englewood Show – Sign-up sheets for our March 12, 13, 14

show are looking for lots of volunteers. I need to have people

sign up as soon as they can with their t-shirt size. I’ll need to

order the shirts in February and I want to be sure that everyone

gets a shirt. There are lots of opportunities to volunteer so

don’t miss out on an opportunity to help with our show. We’ll

needs lots of people to talk to Mary about helping in the kitchen

and providing food for 3 days. We always have a wonderful

response from our members and we eat very well.

Mentor Program – If you are interested in getting some help

with questions, etc., please sign up to be a mentee. If you

would like to help mentor someone, please sign up to be a

mentor. This is a great program for help and a nice way to

meet some of your fellow growers and learn from them. Judy

Russell is in charge and would love to sign you up.

Avram White-Rogers is our new librarian. Please check out the

great books on Orchids that you can take and read; return the

next month. Great way to learn more about orchids.

Culture Classes: Wolf Brucknew will be holding culture

classes at 6:30 before the meetings. You can bring troubled

plants for answers. Thank you, Wolf, for providing this

wonderful opportunity to our members.

New Business:

Dues are now payable at $15 per household. This helps to pay

our rent, speakers and other expenses that the club has. Please

make your check payable to EAOS for $15 and give it to Helen

during the break, if you haven’t already paid.

Next month we will be presenting a slate of officers for the next

2 years. If you are interested in being an officer, please see me,

call me or send me an email.

Venice Show – Set up will be January 31st with the show on

February 1st and 2nd. Ken will need all your beautiful blooming

2nd Place & Speaker’s Choice

Third Place

Best Species & Members’ Choice

plants for the display. Without the plants we can’t have a

beautiful display.

Starting with our February meeting we will have a new location

to meet. We will now hold our meetings at St. David’s

Episcopal Church which is located at 401 A Broadway.

Broadway is parallel to 776. The church is located behind

Stefano’s Family Restaurant, Bealls Outlet, Save-A-Lot and

Richards. Instead of going one mile north to Christ Lutheran

you’ll go about a mile south to our new location. The hall will

be set up for us with very nice chairs and tables in the back. It

will be a good new location.

We need to vote on whether you would like to meet on the 3rd

or 4th Monday night of the month. The 2nd Monday night is not

available for rent. The 1st Monday night is the Sarasota Orchid

Society meeting night. A vote was taken and was decided on

the 3rd Monday of the month for our meetings. We will need to

make some adjustments to our speakers to be sure they can

speak at our meeting and will not have a conflict.

David Berry gave a very informative presentation on

Orchidmania: The Orchid Craze in Victorian Britain. David is

the Associate Director of Academic Affairs and Special

Projects at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

A break was taken for refreshments, to vote for your favorite

plant on the plant table, to buy raffle tickets, check out Wolf’s

plants for sale and to pay dues.

Mary Anne DiGrazia presented the plants on the plant table

with informative descriptions of each plant. Ribbons were

awarded for the plants.

Attention then went to the raffle table where numbers were

drawn. Winning numbers choosing from the plants and items

that were donated for the raffle.

Respectfully Submitted,

Laurie Motter, Recording Secretary

VAOS Show winners

Reitz 2 ribbons / 2 entered

Bushell 3 ribbons / 4 entered

Woodward 9 ribbons / 11 entered

Plasek 1 ribbon / 1 entered

Russell 2 ribbons / 5 entered

Morrison 5 ribbons / 8 entered

Opatrny 11 ribbons / 14entered

DiGrazia 2 ribbons / 3 entered

McClenney-Willis 4 ribbons / 7 entered

Chisholm 2 ribbons / 4 entered

Lobisch 2 ribbons / 6 entered