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Tomas Bajza, “Giant World of Miniature Orchids & Growing in Simple Setups”
February 12 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Tarzane Group was created by Tomas Bajza,
An orchid lover and addict. He originally came to the USA from the Czech Republic and settled down in hot tropical Miami, Florida. He adored orchids during his teenage years, but at that time there wasn’t many to see in his country. Even though he’s been living in Florida and surrounded by orchids for so many years, He started growing orchids in Florida from 2008. He started with the usual grocery store selling orchids, like Phalaenopsis and Dendrobiums, slowly adding some Cattleyas and Vandas since these were the orchids that everyone in Florida grows. All of these were large orchids and mostly hybrids.
2010 was the first time Tomas had ever seen a miniature orchid. He had no clue that such a thing even existed! He fell in love immediately and ordered a few. When they arrived, they were even smaller than he ever imagined. That was it, he was bitten by a “huge” miniature orchid bug. He is a very stubborn grower and does not listen to anything, like the word “impossible”. He likes all orchids, but has a huge amount of love for cold to intermediate growing species. He was told by many growers that due to the hot climate in Florida that these types of orchids could not be grown. Through extended research, reading and being active in different orchid boards and orchid groups, He’s learned tremendously and became an advance grower for miniature orchids. He has been very fortunate with meeting and becoming friends with many international orchid growers and nursery owners. At the beginning, he bought only plants sold by US nurseries. Nowadays, nearly all of his orchids come from abroad. Buying orchids from US growers is safe and the majority of the plants come nicely established. Unfortunately, there are no species he was
looking for offered by the US vendors anymore. He was really pushed to search and start his own importing because he could not just find any of the plants he wanted to own.
He also has a love for photography. With a growing miniature orchid collection, there were endless opportunities for taking pictures of these amazing, sometimes microscopical blooms. Posting pictures online caused quite a “buzz” leading to first invitations from various orchid societies to provide speeches for their members about growing miniature orchids and cold growing species in hot environment.
What used to be a “hobby” slowly grew to a small business that is expanding. They found out there are hundreds of growers searching for these hard to find, unusual, uncommon and rare micro and miniature orchids. They are happy to share their babies with the rest of the orchid world via their website, TARZANORCHIDS.COM, and educate people interested in growing miniature and small orchids through speech engagements across the USA. Tomas has a number of articles on miniature orchids published in orchid magazines across the globe as well.
There will be a presale for plants with an 18% discount prior to the meeting (January 29-February 10) , The coupon code (FLL2024) will be only valid during that time and is exclusively for FLOS members. You may pick up your plants at the meeting.
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