Feb. 3, 2025 Meeting – Tim Culbertson – Modern Japanese-Style Lycaste Hybrids – Zoom!

We don’t just schedule Zoom meetings in the middle of the Rochester winter on a whim! Stay warm, admire your orchids indoors, and join us in February as Tim Culbertson presents “Modern Japanese-Style Lycaste Hybrids.”

Although he teaches middle school kids for a living, one of Tim Culbertson’s passions has always been plants. He began growing orchids as an offshoot of working at Longwood Gardens in Philadelphia just after college.

Tim is the youngest accredited judge with the American Orchid Society, and has served in various capacities with local orchid societies. He enjoys being involved in plants as much as possible: in addition to Longwood, he’s 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.

For our Zoom meeting, Tim will share a presentation on recent advances in Japanese-style Lycaste breeding, culture, and growing.  These plants are easy to grow and flower, are vigorous, and have low demands on culture, and as such are wonderful plants!

Members, please watch your email for timing and details of how to log into the meeting.

photo of orchidist Tim Culbertson

Tim Culbertson