Doors open at 6:30pm for Show & Tell setup and conversations

Barkeria spectabilis

Our Speaker in October will be Chaunie Langland with a talk about Barkerias and Comparettias, two epiphytes well worth growing.

Barkerias and Comparettias are both native to the Americas and are not widely grown. Both have long-lasting, beautifully colored flowers that grow on arching inflorescences (for the most part) and are best grown mounted. Chaunie will talk about what they are, how to find them, and how to grow them.

Chaunie has been a hobbyist orchid grower for more than 30 years, is a long time active Peninsula Orchid Society member, an inactive member of both the San Francisco Orchid Society and Santa Clara Valley Orchid Society, and is an accredited judge with the Pacific Central Judging Center (PCJC) of the AOS. She takes award photos for PCJC, which are published in the Orchid Pro database and in Orchids magazine. Chaunie mainly grows a variety of orchids from Latin America, with a few Asian, Australian, and African orchids in a modest greenhouse as well as outdoors in her backyard in Fremont. She can’t grow or display orchids in her home due to the presence of a determined orchid-batting and -nibbling cat!

We will be experimenting with making this talk available remotely via Zoom!

If you would like to watch the talk remotely, please send a request for the Zoom link to dvosshowandtell@gmail.com before noon on Thursday Oct. 9th! We will respond with the link.

The great  Plant Table will be provided by Marnie Turkel.

Barkeria melanocaulon

Dinner with the Speaker

Members of DVOS are invited to a no-host, pre-meeting dinner with our speaker, Diane Bond. We will meet for dinner at 5:00 pm on Thursday October 9th

Aunug Burma
2151 Salvio St, Suite E
Concord CA 94520

This restaurant is a 5-min drive from the meeting venue. If you wish to attend, RSVP to dvosshowandtell@gmail.com by noon on Thursday, October 9, so we can make a reservation for the appropriate number of attendees.

Comparettia speciosa