Mark Your Calendar: the 66th Annual Oregon Orchid Show & Sale is April 20-21, 2013 in Portland, OR

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Welcome to the Oregon Orchid Society, Portland, OR

UPCOMING EVENTS

MAY MEETING: JOE GRIENAUER – May 21

  • Strange & Unusual Potting Materials.  Join us at the Ambridge Event Center!
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GROWISER Trip – June 1st

  • A field trip to the GROWISER orchid preserve. This trip will be with Oregon Field Guide!  If you are interested in going on this trip we need to hear from you as this trip has a limited number of spaces.  Click on the more link for more information.
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Orchids in the Lan Su Chinese Garden – June 8-9

  • The Oregon Orchid Society is once again honored to be partnering with the Lan Su Chinese Garden in downtown Portland, Oregon to present orchids in the garden.
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The Oregon Orchid Society is a non-profit organization that emphasizes educating the Portland, Oregon area (and beyond) on the appreciation and cultivation of the orchid and conservation of native orchid habitat and would love your participation! Our general meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 P.M.in the heart of Portland at the Ambridge Event Center, 1333 NE MLK Blvd, Portland, Oregon. Each meeting features a lecture or other educational program and a display of blooming plants. Visitors are always welcome! Membership is open to anyone interested in orchids.We welcome you to peruse our website. We hope you find it an enjoyable, educational and inspirational experience! And if you came here looking for our 2013 Show Dates, they’re set! Mark your calendar for April 20-21 of 2013 for the largest orchid show in the Pacific Northwest.

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Monthly Meeting: May 21, 2013

This month we have Joe of Emerald City Orchids coming down from Seattle to talk about some of his travels in Asia and some of the bizarre and
strange forms of potting he has experienced.  Joe always gives a humorous and dynamic talk, this surely will not disappoint.  Our meetings are always a fun time of education and socializing (and a few snacks).  Hope you can make it!

Our monthly meetings are held at the Ambridge Event Center, 1333 NE MLK Blvd, Portland.

 

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Field Trip to GROWISER Preserve: June 1, 2013

Cypripedium montanumGROWISER stands for “Grande Ronde Overlook Wildflower Institute Serving Ecological Restoration”.  This preserve is in the La Grande area (4 hours east of Portland) and has a focus on Oregon’s native plants including an emphasis on the elegant Cypripedium montanum slipper orchid.  We’ll be hunting with our guide, preserve proprietor Andy Huber, for this beautiful bloomer and a number of other orchids that typically are in bloom at that time.  Bring your camera!

We’re very, very excited to announce that this 2013 trip to GROWISER will involve a feature story on the Andy and the preserve as well as our society by OPB TV’s Oregon Field Guide!  For those who have seen Oregon Field Guide and have also gone on a GROWISER tour, you’re certainly aware that this is a perfect story for their format.  We’re glad to be a part of it.

If you’re interested in participating in this trip, please let us know via our main contact email address: oregonorchidsociety@gmail.com.  More details to come.

Orchids in the Lan Su Chinese Garden: June 8-9, 2013

Lan Su Chinese GardenThe Oregon Orchid Society is once again honored to be partnering with the Lan Su Chinese Garden in downtown Portland, Oregon to present orchids in the garden.  The Lan Su Chinese Garden’s poetic name (inscribed in Chinese above the garden’s entryway) is “The Garden of Awakening Orchids”.  It is truly a gem in the heart of Portland!  The society will give lectures, repotting demos and have a display of blooming orchids to share with the public.