Tag Archives: 2022

SAVE THE DATE! The DVOS Holiday Potluck will be December 8, 2022 Pleasant Hill Community Center,  320 Civic Dr, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 Set up begins at 6:00, Dinner at 7:00 • Members and spouses are invited • Potluck meal Please bring a dish for 8 people according to your last name A-G Dessert H-O […]

Live monthly meeting! The November Meeting starts at 7:15 pm PST at the Contra Costa Water District Building Board Room.  Doors open at 6:30 pm for Show & Tell setup and conversation. Carol Klonowski has been growing orchids since the 1980’s when a friend in Berkeley, California, gave her a cattleya orchid and it bloomed […]

We meet again in-person! The October Meeting starts at 7:15 pm PDST at the Contra Costa Water District Building Board Room.  Doors open at 6:30 pm for Show and Tell setup and conversation. Jim has been growing orchids for over 20 years. Over that time his interests have revolved around Phalaenopsis and other Vandaceous species […]

The July DVOS monthly meeting will be held in a “virtual” (Zoom) format once again. Our July meeting will feature Scott A. McGregor, who in addition to having a notable career in the computer software and hardware industries, has been growing orchids since he was 12, when a neighbor gave him a plant. That plant […]

Our auctioneer is Carol Klonoswski! This auction is going to be outside in August. Make sure you have sun protection, water, chairs. IF YOU CAN’T BE PRESENT IN PERSON, BUT WOULD LIKE TO BID on items in the catalog, we have appointed Pat Bacchetti to act as Proxy and bid for you. Please contact her […]

The September 2022 DVOS monthly meeting will once again be held in a “virtual” (Zoom) format.  Zoom meeting starts at 7:00pm PDST (Doors “open” at 6:45pm for general chit-chat) Most flowers lure their pollinators with a reward of nectar or pollen. But did you know that at least a third of all orchid species trick […]

The June DVOS monthly meeting will once again be held in a “virtual” (Zoom) format and will feature Harvey Brenneise of Oak Harbor, WA, who will be speaking on the semi-hydroponic method of growing orchids. This technique differs from full hydroponic culture because the water does not circulate; instead, it stays as a reservoir at […]

The May DVOS monthly meeting will be held in a “virtual” (Zoom) format once again, though, we hope to return to in-person meetings in June. Our May meeting will feature Ray Barkalow of First Rays LLC (www.firstways.com), a company he started to provide supplies for orchid enthusiasts and to disseminate his orchid expertise. His DVOS […]

DVOS monthly meetings will continue to be held in a “virtual” (Zoom) format through at least April 2022.  Once again, we are taking advantage of this format to let us hear from another noted orchid expert,  Dr. Robert Griesbach, who will speak on the history of orchid breeding, a topic with which he is intimately […]

DVOS monthly meetings will continue to be held in a “virtual” (Zoom) format through at least April 2022.  As I’ve noted before, that allows us to hear excellent speakers from around the world who we would otherwise have difficulty bringing to our monthly meetings.  Our March 2022 meeting will continue along these lines and our […]