2024 - 2025

OCTOBER 28, 2024

***TO BE ANNOUNCED

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

DR. MARTIN MOTES - Motes Orchids, “Vandas”

2023 - 2024

JUNE 24, 2024

FRED CLARKE - Sunset Valley Orchids

MAY 27, 2024

ANDREW GEIMAR - Roehampton Orchids, “Jewel Orchids”

April 29, 2024

DOUG LEVIS / SHELDON SMITHENS - Annual Fundraiser Auction

MARCH 25, 2024

XIMENA PORTILLA - Ecuagenera, ‘Orchids of Ecuador”

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

MONICA DE WIT - AOS Judging & How to Prepare for Show Season

JANUARY 29, 2024

ROSS OTTO - Importing Orchids

DECEMBER 18, 2023

HOLIDAY SOCIAL AND POTLUCK

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

TARAS KOWALCZUK, Flora Peculia - Neofinetia falcata: Beauty is in the Eyes of the Beholder

OCTOBER 23

DAVID SOROKOWSKY, Paph Paradise Orchids - Multifloral Paphiopedilums

SEPTEMBER 25

FRANCISCO MIRANDA, Miranda Orchids - The Genus Laelia in Brazil

2022 - 2023

JUNE 26, 2023

FRED CLARKE, Sunset Valley Orchids - Cycnoches, Mormodes, Catasetums; Recent Trends

MAY 19, 2023

JASON FISCHER, Orchids Limited - Phragmipedium Flowers & Culture (via Zoom)

APRIL 24, 2023

DOUG LEVIS / SHELDON SMITHENS, Annual Fundraiser Auction

MARCH, 27 2023

DAVID ELPHINSTONE, FOS Member - The Truth about Terrariums

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

MONICA DE WIT, AOS Judge - AOS Judging & Preparing Plants for Shows

JANUARY 23, 2023

ROSS OTTO, FOS member; Repotting Demonstration

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Annual Holiday Social - Shabby Plant Show & Tell

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

JIM HOLE, Former co-owner of Holes Greenhouse, Horticulturalist & Arborist - Plant Pests, Diseases and Nutrition

OCTOBER 24, 2022

CORELIA HEAD, J & L Orchids - Miniature Orchids and their culture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

INGA POOT, Judge Emeritus, AOS - Stanhopea Culture

FOS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

2021 - 2022

JUNE 27, 2022

MONICA DE WIT, AOS Judge and member of the Orchid Society of Alberta - Brassavola and It’s Impact on Modern Hybrids

MAY 16, 2022

T. J. HARTUNG, A director of the Vallarta Botanical Garden - Orchids of Mexico

APRIL 25, 2022

SPECIAL MEETING TO REVIEW BYLAWS UPDATE & Annual Fundraiser Auction featuring Retired Auctioneer Doug Levis

MARCH 28, 2022

SHAWN HILLIS, Garden Slippers - Woodlanders: Companion Plants for the Woodland Garden

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

DAVE NIXON, Orchid Species Preservation Foundation - Orchid Folklore, Myths, Legends and other Obscure Information (Ethnobotany)

JANUARY 24, 2022

KELLY McCRACKEN, High Desert Orchids - Fragrant Miniature Orchids

DECEMBER 13, 2021

ANNUAL HOLIDAY SOCIAL

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

ALAN KOCH, Gold Country Orchids - Orchids 101

OCTOBER 25, 2021

MARNI TURKEL, Mostly Species Orchids & Flasks - Give It A Rest

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

TERRY LETRENDRE, Terry’s Orchids - Bulbophyllums

2020 - 2021

MAY 31, 2021

FRANCISCO MIRENDA, Mirenda Orchids - Rupiculous Orchids

APRIL 26, 2021

ANNUAL FUNDRAISER AUCTION, FEATURING DOUG LEVIS (Auctioneer) of Doug Levi Fine Art Auctions and Appraisals

MARCH 29, 2021

DAVID FIELDER - Native Alberta Orchids

MARCH 1, 2021

GLEN DECKER - My Life with Slippers

JANUARY 25, 2021

TERRY KENNEDY, Orchids in our Tropics - Coelogynes; Porcelain Beauties

DECEMBER 21, 2020

HOLIDAY SOCIAL, VIA ZOOM

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

DAVE NIXON, OSPF - Dendrobiums (via Zoom)

OCTOBER 25, 2020

MEETING CANCELLED BECAUSE OF COVID19 RESTRICTIONS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING and SHAWN HILLIS, Garden Slippers - Hardy Cypripediums

2019 - 2020

APRIL 27, 2020, MAY 25, 2020 & JUNE 29, 2020

MEETINGS CANCELLED BECAUSE OF COVID-19

MARCH 23, 2020

MEETING CANCELLED BECAUSE OF COVID-19

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

THOMAS MIRENDA, Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden - “Herding Catts: A Beautiful Walk through a Difficult Phylogeny”

JANUARY 27, 2020

TERRY GROSZBEIL, Forestview Gardens - “The Oncidium Alliance”

DECEMBER 16, 2019

HOLIDAY SOCIAL & POTLUCK

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

GORDON HEAPS, Horticulturalist (retired) - “What’s Bugging You”

OCTOBER 28, 2019

FRED CLARKE, Sunset Valley Orchids

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

FRANCISCO MIRANDA, Miranda Orchids

2018 - 2019

JUNE 24, 2019

SHAWN HILLIS - Growing Temperate Orchids in the Garden

MAY 27, 2019

JEAN ALLEN-IKESON - The story of White Cattleyas

APRIL 29, 2019

DOUG LEVIS - Annual Fundraiser Auction featuring Doug Levis of Levis Fine Art Auctions & Appraisals

MARCH 25, 2019

ROSS OTTO & BARBARA PODMORE - Cattleya dividing & re-potting demonstration

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

CALVIN WONG, TROPICAL GARDENS ORCHIDS - Coelogyne; The Classics, The New and How to Grow Them Well

JANUARY 28, 2019

GORDON HEAPS - Dendrobiums

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Our annual Holiday Potluck & Social

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

ROSS OTTO & BARBARA PODMORE - Discussed how they grow orchids on the windowsill and under lights & focused on the evolution of cultural practices including LED lighting and ProMix.

OCTOBER 29, 2018

HADLEY CASH, MARRIOTT ORCHIDS - Complex Paphiopedilums, Our Newest & Most Exciting Crosses

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

GLEN DECKER, PIPING ROCK ORCHIDS - Phragmipediums and their culture

2017 - 2018

JUNE 25, 2018

SHAWN HILLIS, GARDEN SLIPPERS - Garden Slippers, growing temperate slippers in the garden

MAY 28, 2018

CORDELIA HEAD, J & L ORCHIDS - Miniature Orchids

APRIL 30, 2018

FOS ANNUAL FUNDRAISING AUCTION - DOUG LEVIS, LEVIS FINE ART AUCTIONS & APPRAISALS

MARCH 26, 2018

PAT VAN ADRICHEM, KINGFISHER ORCHIDS - Phalaenopsis

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

LEA ROMANOWSKI, DESIGNING ON THE EDGE - Floral Arrangements with Orchids

JANUARY 29, 2018

TERRY GROSZEIBL, FORESTVIEW GARDENS - Dendrobiums

DECEMBER 18, 2017

FOS HOLIDAY SOCIAL

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

DAVID FIELDER, NATURALIST & PHOTOGRAPHER - Alberta Native Orchid Species: How to find them

OCTOBER 23, 2017

FRED CLARKE, SUNSET VALLEY ORCHIDS - Catasetinae

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

BILL THOMS, AUTHOR AND GROWER - Bulbophyllums

Bill grows his plants in shallow cedar baskets rather than on cork bark mounts. Bill believes that because they are easier to keep moist in a basket than a mounted specimen, his plants grow bigger and have more flowers. In his book called “Bulbophyllums”, Bill describes the technique and the results are amazing. It is not unusual for Bill's plants to have more than 100 flowers with unblemished leaves and overflowing a wood and wire 16 cm x 30 cm basket. In his presentation, Bill will tell us about best growing techniques as well as recommend species and hybrids that will thrive in different growing environments that we have in Calgary.

2016 - 2017

JUNE 26, 2017

SHAWN HILLIS, GARDEN SLIPPERS

Shawn is a member of FOS and his Calgary nursery specializes in temperate orchids that are hardy in Calgary gardens. Garden Slippers has been in business for 10 years and has gained a loyal following for the wonderful selection of rare cypripedium orchids that thrive outdoors in Canadian gardens. Shawn will tell us all about growing cypripedium orchids outdoors in Calgary as well as the latest new plants available in Canada. Shawn’s cypripediums have been awarded a number of AOS Awards of Merit, including Cypripedium Pixi ‘Pop’, Cypripedium Pixi ‘Purple Haze’ and most recently Cypripedium guttatum ‘Spot’. Check out Shawn’s website at http://www.gardenslippers.com/ for a full list of the latest cypripediums available in Canada.

MAY 29, 2017

SERGIO GARCIA, OLOMPALI ORCHIDS - Laelia purpurata and its Varieties

When I spoke to him, he said: “Yes, I do know that Laelia purpurata has been renamed as a Cattleya, but make the choice to continue calling it a Laelia”. Sergio has given presentations at the American Orchid Society Annual Meeting as well as many prestigious orchid shows around the world. It should be an interesting evening.

Olompali Orchids specializes in Laelia and Cattleya species as well as selected clones and hybrids. Below are pictured some of the featured orchids available at Olompali Orchids.