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Doors open at 6:30 pm for Show & Tell setup and conversations Our Speaker in January will be Carol Klonowski presenting: Latest Species in Paph Breeding Carol Klonowski has been growing orchids since the 1980’s when a friend in Berkeley, California, gave her a cattleya and it bloomed out with three, big, dark lavender flowers […]

DVOS Annual Holiday Party NOTE NOT ON OUR USUSAL MEETING NIGHT!!     It’s that time of year again. Our annual holiday party is coming up: Thursday, December 18, 2025 Set up 6:00PM, Dinner 7:00PM PLEASANT HILL COMMUNITY CENTER 320 Civic Drive Pleasant Hill, CA We will have many of our favorite activities: Drawing for […]

It is that time of year again. Our annual holiday party is coming up. DVOS Annual Holiday Party NOTE NOT ON OUR USUAL MEETING NIGHT! Thursday, December 18, 2025 Set up 6:00 PM, Dinner 7:00 PM Pleasant Hill Community Center 320 Civic Drive Pleasant Hill, CA Free for all for potluck, but if you’d like […]

Doors open at 6:30 pm for Show & Tell setup and conversations   Our November meeting will feature a recorded AOS webinar by Charles G. Wilson Charles Wilson has been growing orchids for over 40 years. His botanical interests include Bulbophyllums, Cattleyas, Coelogynes, Dendrobiums, and Paphs, as well just about everything in between! He has […]

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

Doors open at 6:30pm for Show & Tell setup and conversations   Our Speaker in August will be our own Diane Bond Diane’s talk will be on Zygopetalum species and their Hybrids in the Bay Area Diane has been growing orchids in one way or another since high school.  Her interest in orchids led to […]

Doors open at 6:30pm for Show & Tell setup and conversations Our Speaker in July will be Carol Klonowski   Carol will be presenting a seasonally appropriate talk: Taiwan and Beyond: Summer Blooming Phalaenopsis. Carol has been growing orchids since the 1980’s when a friend in Berkeley, California, gave her a cattleya and it bloomed out […]

Doors open at 6:30pm for Show & Tell setup and conversations Our Speaker in June will be Mary Gerritsen Mary will be speaking to us about one of her favorite orchid destinations; Papua New Guinea (PNG) offers an incredible visit to a country that is tangled in time. Her lecture, The Orchids and Tribes of Papua New Guinea is […]

Doors open at 6:30pm for Show & Tell setup and conversations Our Speaker in April will be Dennis Olivas Dennis was born on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. As a child, he helped his mother and aunt grow their orchids and got hooked. He joined the Future Farmers of America, and his project was raising […]

Doors open at 6:30pm for Show & Tell setup and conversations Our Speaker in April will be Bridget Uzar Bridget Uzar, from Carter and Holmes Orchids, will tell us about the Journey of a Seedpod. This presentation takes the listener from the why and how one creates an orchid seedpod, all the way through growing seedlings […]