Feb. 3, 2025 Meeting – Tim Culbertson – Modern Japanese-Style Lycaste Hybrids – Zoom!
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.
Tim Culbertson
Our Meetings
The Genesee Region Orchid Society (GROS) is a 501(c) non-profit organization based in Rochester, NY.
Our regular meeting night is the first Monday following the first Sunday of each month. We occasionally change the meeting date as our schedule requires, but we always list the correct date well in advance both on this website and in our monthly newsletter. Our meetings are open to everyone without charge – feel free to attend and find out what our Society is all about!
Meetings typically consist of a brief business meeting to conduct our club’s routine activities, a special presentation on an orchid subject, an orchid raffle (2 tickets for $1), and a Show Table where members can display their flowering plants for everyone to see. For more information, please contact any of our officers.
See our entire meeting schedule with all locations and maps here.
Membership
Membership includes:
- Free admission to our annual Spring Show
- Notices of special vendor discounts and pre-ordering opportunities
- Voting privileges for officers and constitutional changes.
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The dues for single membership are $20. Family membership dues are $25. You can download a membership application here.
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