April 2013 - American Orchid Society

April 2013

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The American Orchid Society’s Special Judging Awards for 2011
The American Orchid Society’s First Class Certificates of 2012
Secrets For Getting Cultural Awards
How Orchid Flowers Are Measured
Color Blindness
The Genus Cyrtochilum
The Importance of Fertilizer

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April 2013

PARTING SHOT

ON a whim in the spring of 2010, I bought 20 back issues of Orchids

at a library book sale. I...

April 2013

FOR THE NOVICE

IF THEIR OTHER REQUIREMENTS

are met, orchids will grow and flower for

fairly long peri...

April 2013

TOM’S MONTHLY CHECKLIST

SPRING IS A MOST UPLIFTING TIME

of year, with its cool, fresh weather, its astonishing
...

April 2013

Incomparable

[1] Phalaenopsis Lioulin Moon ‘OX 1533’,

FCC-CCE/AOS (92 points) (Lioulin King ×

Lioul...

April 2013

SPOTLIGHT

BEGINNER’S LUCK? I’D LIKE TO THINK HAVING MY FIRST PLANT AWARDED

would have been satisfaction...

April 2013

On Being Color Blind

I LIKE TO CONSIDER MYSELF LUCKY

in, at least until 2009, lacking serious diseases

at a...

April 2013

ORCHID OF THE MONTH

ON MY FIRST TRIP TO ECUADOR,

well over a decade ago for an andean Orchid

conference, f...

April 2013

Size Counts

IN ORCHIDS, “SIZE COUNTS” IS NOT

always the same as “bigger is better.”

American orchi...

April 2013

Growing for Perfection

THE ULTIMATE ACCOLADE THAT AN ORCHID GROWER CAN RECEIVE IS

when a fellow grower says “congrat...

April 2013

Top of the Line

THE YEAR 2011 PROVIDED A WEALTH OF AWARDS FOR THE JUDGING

Committee to choose from when selec...

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