VOS Culture Class (in-person unless otherwise announced): Every 2nd Tuesday monthly in the Cedar Room at VanDusen Botanical Gardens, except for January, July, August and December
Culture Class is for members only; however, currently, we are inviting guests to join us for one class. If you want to attend more, we invite you to become a member.
Classes start at 7:00 pm, but the meeting will open its doors at 6:30pm in the Cedar Room for members to have time to chat; members are encouraged to bring their questions and plants. Please e-mail vosexecutive(at)gmail.com for details on how to join.
2025 Presenters
| January 2025 |
No classes in January |
| February 11, 2025 |
Speaker: Collis Wilson & Maureen Burke
Topic: “Capturing the Best of Your Orchids: A Journey on Photography”
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| March 11, 2025 |
Speaker: Israel Olmos
Topic: “Beautiful Bulbophyllums & Yes, Mine Are Now Famous!”
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| April 8, 2025 |
Speaker: Robyn Gaebel
Topic: “Divide & Conquer: How to Divide a Mammoth Cymbidium (& Other Orchids)”
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| May 13, 2025 |
Speaker: Conor Preston
Topic: ”Deflasking: Taking Orchids Babies from ‘Flask’ to ‘Let’s Get Growing’”
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| June 10, 2025 |
Speaker: Stanley
Topic: Fukuran: Aspects of Wind Orchid Culture, also known as Vanda falcata and Neofinitia falcata”
Postponed for now: Margaret Prat on “Orchid Viruses”
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| July 2025 |
Summer Break, no classes
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| August 2025 |
Summer Break, no classes
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Previous Culture Classes:
February 13, 2024: Adam Ludlow will present “Beginner’s Culture Class: A Friend Gave You an Orchid – Now What?”
March 12, 2024: Wayne Riggs will present “Importing Orchids into Canada: Trials & Tribulations”
April 9, 2024: Conor Preston will present “Deflasking Your New Orchid Babies: Growing Them On Mounted & Potted”
May 14, 2024: Lori Barrington will present “Sharing How I Grow Paphiopedilums”
June 11, 2024: Daniel Testar will present “Growing Orchids in a Grow Tent”
September 2024: Conor Preston will present “Mounting your Orchids” Part 1/2 of a VOS orchid mounting series
October 2024: Daniel Kwok will present “My Exploration in Mounting Orchids” Part 2/2 of a VOS mounting series
November 2024: Ingrid Pike will present “Your Best Orchid Show: How to Prepare & Set Up Your Best Display”
May 2023: Adam Ludlow will present “Pot Culture and Media: Impacting Your Orchid Success”
June 2023: Neil Yates will present “Orchids Surviving Shipping”
September 2023: Conor Preston will present “Orchid Mounting”
October 2023: Chris Vanderkooi will present “Transitioning Orchids Outdoors and Back Indoors, Hardiness Zone 8b”
November 2023: Eugene Banzinger will present “What to Do with Bare-root Orchids and Some Potting”