Culture Classes
Our Culture Classes are held the 2nd Tuesday of every month in the Cedar Room at Van Dusen Botanical Gardens, except for January, July, August, and December. Each Culture Class focuses on a single horticulture topic designed to hone your growing skills.
Attendance is for members only; however, we invite guests to join us for one free class by registering at secretary@vancouverorchidscociety.ca. If you want to attend more, we invite you to become a member.
Classes start at 7:00 pm, and doors open at 6:30pm at the Cedar Room. Use the set up time to chat, bring questions, and trade plants! Please e-mail secretary(at)vancouverorchidsociety.ca 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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| September 9, 2025 |
Speaker: Caitlyn Davis
Topic: Orchid Fertilizer
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| October 14, 2025 |
Speaker: Sabrina Tran
Topic: “Grow Tents”
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| November 11, 2025 |
Speaker: Nora Ciurysek
Topic: “A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Catasetinae: Nature’s Winged Wonders”
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| December 2025 |
Winter 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”