This month our speaker is Dave Sorokowsky of Paph Paradise. The title of his talk will be “Don’t Fear the Slippers”. This will be a talk about culture of these beautiful plants.
The meeting will be a hybrid in person/ZOOM meeting. Please contact Henry Shaw (dvosshowandtell@gmail.com) if you want the link for the ZOOM meeting. But I would certainly try to be at the meeting in person. Dave will be supplying the raffle table.
Doors open at 6:30 for Show & Tell setup and conversations.
Dave’s Orchid Biography
After receiving his degree in biochemistry from the University of Toronto, Dave opted to step outside his chosen field and operated a tropical fish import business for eight years. Upon returning to school, Dave received a degree in enology and viticulture from Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. While attending Brock, Dave began acquiring orchids one 2” pot at a time and before he graduated, Dave had over 100 orchids. Winemaking and a passion for orchids prompted Dave to seek a warmer climate in California about one year later. Dave has been growing paphiopedilums for about 15 years and seriously hybridizing for the past 10 years. He is an accredited AOS judge and his paphiopedilums have received over 100 awards to date from the AOS and CSA. Many of those awarded plants playing important roles in his breeding program. In 2018 Dave left winemaking in order to focus all of his time running Paph Paradise Orchids.
Please visit Dave’s site: https://paphparadise.com/ to see the plants he has available for sale. Macabre Midnight ‘Dornfelder’ HCC/AOS is one of Dave’s recent AOS awarded plants.
Paph. Macabre Midnight ‘Dornfelder’ HCC/AO
Members of DOVS are invited to a no-host, pre-meeting dinner with our guest speaker. We will meet for dinner at 5 PM on Thursday June 08 at: Aung Burma, 2151 Salvio St Suite E, Concord, CA 94520
This restaurant is a 5-minute drive from the meeting venue. If you wish to attend, please RSVP to bonddiane9@gmail.com by 5PM Wednesday, June 07 so that I can make reservations.
