Welcome to another exciting year for the Sacramento Orchid Society. Our January monthly meeting is happening on the second Wednesday this month because of the New Years holiday on the first Wednesday.

This month, our speaker is our own Ramon De Los Santos. Ramon will be speaking about Phalaenopsis Species of the Philippines. Ramon is an accredited AOS judge in the California Sierra Nevada Judging Center and is also the awards photographer for the judging center.

Every month, the Sacramento Orchid Society has a free membership meeting. Our meetings are open to the public, you don’t have to be a member to attend (there is an opportunity to join if you enjoy the meeting).

Meetings start at 7:00PM and the doors open at 6:00PM. Come early to browse our members ‘show-and-tell’ plants which is like a mini orchid show each month. This also give you a chance to talk to the members who grow the plants and learn a little more about each type of orchid. You can also join the society or renew your membership, purchase plants and socialize before the meeting starts.

Bring plants in for AOS judging between 6:00PM and 6:30PM. Judging begins at 7:00PM.

Please come and join us for our monthly meeting at the Odd Fellows Hall in Sacramento. This month our speaker will be Jeff Trimble. He will be speaking on Miltonopsis orchids. These orchids are a wonderful addition to any collection. Come and learn all about them at our next meeting. You will even have a chance to win some of them if you participate in our drawing at the end of the meeting.

This is our annual potluck meeting. This meeting is only for current, and future, members of the society. We will all be bringing a delicious dish to share with others. Check the December newsletter for a link to the online signup sheet. All current members will get an orchid from Gold Country Orchids as our way of saying thank you for your continued membership (one orchid per family).

At our November monthly meeting, our speaker will be Mitch Schneider who will be speaking about Zygopedilum orchids. This is a great opportunity to learn more about these easy to grow, fragrant orchids. Many of them can even be grown outdoors here in our area.

As always, we will have our show-and-tell table which is a mini orchid show that we do each month. And we’ll have our raffle table which provides a great chance to take home a new orchid or two. And there will be refreshments at the break.

So come and join us for our monthly meeting. It’s free and open to everyone; you don’t have to be a member to attend.

At our October meeting, our guest speaker will be Ben Oliveros. Ben will be discussing Bifoliate Cattleyas. This should be an interesting talk and introduce you to these great orchids.

The doors open at 6:00PM and the meeting starts at 7:00PM. We’ll take care of general society business, have Ben give his talk, do our fabulous show-and-tell (members bring in their blooming plants for everyone to enjoy) and then our monthly raffle is back!. Since it’s been a while since we’ve had a raffle, we’ll have an expanded raffle for this meeting.