Art Chadwick, Large Flowered Cattleya Species

Art holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State and an MBA from James Madison University. He founded Chadwick & Son Orchids
Inc in 1989 with his father who had been growing orchids since 1943.

The Chadwick’s first book, The Classic Cattleyas, was released in 2006 and sold out. An updated second edition was released in 2022. Martha Stewart
favorably reviewed the book and had both Chadwick’s on her TV Show. A sequel book, First Ladies and their Orchids: A Century of Namesake
Cattleyas, was released in the summer of 2024. For twenty years, Art wrote a monthly orchid advice column that was carried by newspapers around
the country.

The Chadwick’s have the distinction of naming Cattleya hybrids after the wives of the six most recent U.S. Presidents and personally presenting the
flowers to most of the honored recipients.

Art is a “regular” on the orchid society speaker’s circuit and has spoken at three World Orchid Conferences – France 2005, Ecuador 2017 and Germany
last month.

Chadwick’s has had two high profile orchid exhibits in the past year: The 2025 Chelsea Flower Show in London which won a silver-gilt medal from the
Royal Horticultural Society and visit from Queen Camilla as well as the 2026 Philadelphia Flower Show which won best artistic design, best
educational, #1 must see exhibit and a visit from Martha Stewart.

Chadwick’s operates 13 greenhouses in rural Powhatan County, two retail stores in Richmond, and boards over 13,000 orchids for local clients. The
company was recently featured in Southern Living magazine, The New York Times, Bloomberg News, Smithsonian magazine, Better Homes and
Gardens, The Washington Post, The CBS Evening News, and Oprah magazine.