Next Meeting: Sunday April 21, 2024
Canadian Mennonite University, South Campus
Conference Room
600 Shaftesbury Blvd.
(SW corner of Shaftesbury Blvd. and Grant Avenue)
General Meeting
Start time is 1:30 pm
“Masdevallias You Can Actually Grow”
Live Zoom meeting with Tim Culbertson from California
Bio for Tim Culbertson
Although I teach middle school kids for a living, one of my passions has always been plants. I began growing orchids as an offshoot from working at Longwood Gardens in Philadelphia just after college. From the very beginning it was all about Paphs, particularly awarded and select clones of historic importance, of which my collection numbers nearly 3000. While I love finding old, rare stepping stones in paph breeding, I also do a little hybridizing of my own, and growing up my own babies is a blast. I am an accredited judge with the American Orchid Society, and have served in various capacities with various orchid societies in California and on the East Coast. I love meeting other people who like orchids too, and doing so often finds me traveling to shows, vendors, and peoples’ greenhouses to see the latest and greatest in new hybrids and to get the best orchid gossip. I like to be involved in plants as much as possible: in addition to Longwood, I’ve worked at the Smithsonian Institution tending to their orchids, and for years for the United States National Arboretum, collecting rare plants and documenting cultivated species and hybrids for their herbarium. In short, I really like plants.
For your meeting, I’ll be sharing a presentation entitled “Masdevallias You Can Actually Grow.” It’s been such a pity that these absolute gems trace most of their heritage to cold-growing, cloud forest species. Some modern hybridizers are pushing back on those temperature requirements to make new Masdevallia hybrids which are compact, floriferous, colorful, and that grow and bloom in normal intermediate conditions in mixed collections. These plants are easy to grow and flower, are vigorous, and have low demands on light and fertilizer, and as such are wonderful plants! I will help to identify important species in the backgrounds of historically important and modern Masdevallias, as well as discuss the different directions of breeding warmth tolerance. By the end of this presentation, you will have a new appreciation of what goes into breeding trends for these types of plants, as well as an appreciation of their beautiful flowers and ease-of-growth.
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Don’t forget the benefits with a Manitoba Orchid Society membership.
Members now receive the following discounts:
10% Shelmerdine Garden Center
10% LaCoste Garden Centre
10% St Mary’s Nursery & Garden Centre
10% T&T Seeds on orders over $50.00
10% Schriemer’s Greenhouses And Garden Centre
15% Village Garden Centre
10% Ready Set Grow Hydroponics
10% Ron Paul Garden Center
