Fort Lauderdale Orchid Society
67th Orchid Show and Sale January 8-10, 2027
John Odom has been growing orchids for over 50 years and Odom’s Orchids has been at our present location for over 40 years. He graduated from the University of Florida with his B.A. in agriculture. With over 90,000 square feet of greenhouses, Odom’s Orchids is one of the largest retail growers and shippers of orchids …
Saturday morning at 9:30AM: Rich Ackerman will host a Zoom meeting for anyone who needs to learn how to use Zoom. Rich Ackerman is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: FLOS member test meeting Time: May 9, 2020 09:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Click here to download ZOOM: https://zoom.us/download Join Zoom …
“Creating Better Images of Your Orchids” Ever wish you could take better photos of your orchids to share with friends? Join us via Zoom July 13 at 7:30 for a special treat. Professional photographer Tom Kuligowski will show us how to do it. Tom was bitten by the “Orchid Bug” 20 years ago while photographing …
Jason Fischer’s life-long passion for orchids started at age 5 when he began working in his father Jerry’s business, Orchids Limited in Plymouth, MN. He began breeding at age 14, first with Phals. and later other varieties. He now helps manage the business and is heavily involved in breeding and marketing. He studied the Japanese …
Dr. Needham’s professional objective has been “to educate and foster the professional development of others.” After earning his PhD in Horticultural Plant Breeding and Genetics in 1989, Dr. Needham served as Professor of Floriculture at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Needham joined Longwood Gardens in July 2007, serving as Vice President of Education until he retired …
Our annual auction is a fun fundraiser for FLOS. We alway have a great selection of plants from our favorite orchid vendors and donations from FLOS members. This year our auction will be held via ZOOM. It will require prior registration. When you register, you will be sent a login link that is unique to …
Mary Gerritsen currently works an independent biotechnology consultant, her “retirement” after a long career in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry. However, much of her free time now involves orchids in some fashion or another. Mary has a large collection of miniature orchids, as well as numerous pleurothallids, paphiopedilum, bulbophyllum, and dendrobium species which she grows outside in …
Our January speaker will be Harry A. Gallis, MD, from North Carolina. As always, the Zoom link will be on our homepage @ FLOS.org. Dr. Harry Gallis is an American Orchid Society judge in North Carolina and a long-time grower of Antelope style Dendrobiums. His talk should give you a good overview of the various …
Linden Burzell has been growing orchids for nearly sixty years. He began collecting as a young man in Vista, California, buying his first plants from some of the famous Southern California growers of the late 50’s and 60’s. After graduating from UCLA, he went on to receive his Ph.D. in Marine Microbiology from the University …
Our March speaker will be Patricia Harding, a world traveler, observer, photographer, and writer who also grows orchids at her Oregon home, where she has been “stuck” for more than a year. She will talk about testing orchid DNA and developing a family tree, how it is done and why it works. Sounds downright scary, …