Diablo View Orchid Society Meeting

Bridget is a fourth-generation green thumb, and a second-generation orchid grower. Following in her father’s footsteps, she has been at Carter and Holmes Orchids in Newberry South Carolina for over twenty years but has been around orchids her whole life, essentially growing up under the benches. (Her father worked at the Rod McClellan’s Bay-area orchid company, Acres of Orchids, for a decade before it was sold to Taisuco Sugar Co.)

Bridget began working at Carter and Holmes in 2002 in an everyday potting and watering capacity, eventually being given charge of the collection and breeding houses. She made her first Cattleya cross in 2008 and hasn’t stopped since. In 2009, she began working on digital photography, catalog publications, and other marketing work for Carter and Holmes Orchids. Selling Quality Orchids since 1947, Carter and Holmes Orchids is a family-run business with one of the world’s longest-running orchid hybridizing programs. Today, Bridget has been the chief grower and hybridizer at Carter and Holmes for over a decade, overseeing greenhouse management and production. She also handles the company’s marketing emails as well as promotional material and social media.

Carter and Holmes will be providing plants for the opportunity table and is offering a 15% discount to DVOS members on all additional individual purchases. You should have received a separate e-mail with the code. If you order before April 6, 2025 will be shipped with the DVOS plants and you’ll save on shipping costs.

Note that Bridget will be joining us “virtually” via Zoom. Although we hope you’ll attend the meeting in person, the presentation will also be available to watch remotely. To obtain the Zoom meeting link, send an e-mail request to dvosshowandtell@gmail.com; the link will be sent to you in an e-mail reply.