Next Meeting: Friday 13, 2026. 6:30 setup. Meeting starts at 7:00.
Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA
March Program: At this month's meeting Chaunie Langland will speak on "Growing Barkerias and Comparettias".
Barkerias have beautiful small fairy-garden type flowers and occur naturally in Mexico and Central America. Comparettias have brightly colored flowers on long arching inflorescences and are native to South America. This talk will include tips on finding these orchids to buy and on growing them successfully.
Chaunie has been an orchid hobby grower for more than 30 years, is a long time active Peninsula Orchid Society member, an inactive San Francisco Orchid Society member, a ghost member of Gold Coast Cymbidium Society and a semi-active member of Santa Clara Valley Orchid Society. She is an accredited judge with the Pacific Central Judging Center of the AOS. She grows Phalaenopsis, Paphiopedilums and Sarcochilus, but mainly grows a wide variety of orchids from Latin America, in a modest sized but expensively heated greenhouse and outdoors running wild in her backyard. No orchids are grown or displayed in her home due to the presence of a determined orchid tossing and nibbling cat.
Meetings:
Meetings are held the second Friday of every month at the Live Oak Grange Hall, 1900 17th Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062.
Guests are welcome to attend.
Meetings include:
A speaker presentation or panel discussion by an orchid expert(s)
A show & tell table of blooming plants brought in by members who gladly share information on how they grow them.
Chance to win an orchid from the opportunity table.
Light refreshments.