June Flowering Competition Placings. Albury-Wodonga & District Orchid Club Inc. Dates for your Diary. What s happening at our July meeting

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1 Volume 17-7 The Orchid Spike Albury-Wodonga & District Orchid Club Inc. What s happening at our July meeting ABN Our next meeting is on Tuesday 4 th July, Please note early start due to a Casserole tea night. Topic How to stake and train cymbidium orchid spikes. Commencing at 6:30pm at the Murray Valley Centre, Pearce Street, Wodonga. Benching to conclude at 6.25pm. Novice/Intermediate Growers There will be no novice/intermediate growers talk tonight due to the Casserole dinner. Club Memorabilia Club T-Shirts, Jackets and Caps may be ordered with the AWDOC Logo embroidered on them from Vision Screen Printing they are located at 429 Wilson Street, Albury Ph: Check with Stephen Sang for current prices. Jacket $57 Polo Shirt in mens or womens style $37 Both in Navy/White Recall of Show Trophies Could all show trophies please be returned to the club by the July Meeting. Plant Recall for the month of July Please remember to bring your club plant in for this meeting. Recalled plant is Speciosum Kai x Palmerston and it was issue in 2010 and has not been recalled since Some of these plants should be getting close to flowering size by now. Sales Bench Web: Albury Wodonga Orchid Club All club correspondence should be addressed to - The Secretary AWDOC Inc. PO Box 281 LAVINGTON NSW 2641 AWDOC Committee for 2016/17 President Jenny Kilo Secretary Dione Garwell Treasurer Robin Elliott Vice President Chris Godde (02) Editor Pam Haysom (02) pam.haysom@bigpond.com Committee Jock Campbell, Adrian Goodall, Keith Kilo, Stephen Sang, Joe and Jill Wooding. Novice Co-ordinator Anna Christesen. There will be a table with various pots, pot holders, stakes, slug out, labels, trays, pole hangers, perlite, and large and small bark. For Sale If you would like to advertise any items/plants for sale, let me know. We will be including a for sale section. All adds will be no larger than 1/8 of a page. The add will be free, but 15% of all sales is to go to the club. Dates for your Diary July Tuesday 4 th Albury-Wodonga and District Orchid Club Meeting Murray Valley Centre at 6.30pm. Friday 21 st to Saturday 22 nd Bateman's Bay Orchid Club June Flowering Competition Placings Plant of the month Lc. Love Knot x Cassistas Popular Vote Onc. River of Gold J&J Wooding Best Species Epi. peperiamia Best Intermediate Cym. Sue x Beaconfire T Robinson Best Novice Pot. Dal s Moon Golden Sun J Garnier Best Fern & Foliage Zygo R Wales Best Fern & Foliage Ornamental Grape J Wooding 1

2 August Tuesday 1 st Albury-Wodonga and District Orchid Club Meeting Murray Valley Centre at 7.30pm. Ailsa Young a myotherapist will be the guest speaker. Thursday 31 st August to Saturday 2 nd September Hawkesbury District Orchid Society, Richmond Market Place, March St Richmond September Tuesday 5 th Albury-Wodonga and District Orchid Club Meeting Murray Valley Centre at 7.30pm. Orchid Show plant preparation will be discussed. Friday 23 rd to Saturday 24 th Wagga Wagga Orchid Society, Glenfield Community Centre, 1 Tanda Place, Glenfield, Wagga Wagga Saturday 30 th September to Sunday 1 st October South & West Regional Conference & Orchid Show, Mirambeena Centre, 19 Martha Mews Lavington October: Tuesday 3 rd Albury-Wodonga and District Orchid Club Meeting Murray Valley Centre at 7.30pm. November: Tuesday 7 th Albury-Wodonga and District Orchid Club Meeting Murray Valley Centre at 7.30pm. December: Tuesday 5 th Albury-Wodonga and District Orchid Club Meeting Murray Valley Centre at 7.30pm. President s Report Hello fellow orchid lovers and growers. A big thank you to our June guest speaker Justin Dallinger from Foto Supplies Camera House, what a wonderful presentation on how Foto Supplies originated, this certainly was a trip down memory lane with photography. I enjoyed the many photos of the of the car races, and the Ivor plane. Also thank you for checking some of our camera s and giving them a clean. Our meeting Tuesday 4 th July Don t forget our meeting July meeting commences at 6.00 for a 6.30 start Casserole tea night, please bring a casserole or finger food and a dessert or supper to share. We will also look at how to stake and train cymbidium orchid spikes and how to look after your orchids during winter. Note there will not be a novice/intermediate meeting. Thank you also to the wonderful members who helped bag bark at Anna s, we had a wonderful day, beautiful weather and fantastic afternoon tea, your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you also to Anna for supplying of tea and coffee, and also for organising the bark. We now have some small bark available for sale at the club meeting. Subs are now due if you would like to direct credit your subs our bank account details are BSB Account No please put your surname and initials as the reference. The South & West Regional Show the commercial for Prime is being organised, the advertising has also commenced at The Cube in Wodonga, we are also sending further letters to various other magazines etc for some advertising. I finally put the flyer on Facebook, so if you have Facebook please go in and share the flyer. The sashes have been ordered, prize cards are being organised, a guest has been organised to present our awards on the Saturday evening, work is at hand organising the club display, and we have a new sponsor for the show Jindera Butchery thank you Brad and Tina. One other thing catering for the show we need your help, we will require cold meats, sandwich fillings and cake and slices or donations towards the meats and sandwich fillings. Could you please speak with Leslie Sang to organise your donation. Billet a call out once again for a lady from Bateman s Bay is looking to be billeted over our show weekend from Friday 29 th September to Sunday 1 st October. She will possibly only need a bed and breakfast, as on Friday and Saturday evenings she would join in with the club dinners. Could you please see Dione if you are able to billet this lovely lady. The next Three Rivers Show meeting is on July 16 th at 10.30am. Also don t forget to put the Three Rivers Show dates into your diaries Saturday 25 th and Sunday 26 th November, 2017 at the Oddfellows Federation Hall, 231 Sanger Street, Corowa NSW. Benching is open to any person who is a member of an orchid club, plants will be displayed similar to our own show. This is an 2

3 opportunity to showcase all those orchids like our sarcochilus, canaliculatums, late flowering cymbidiums, laeliinae and paphiopedilums and of course any other late flowering orchids. There will two vendors Lawranna Orchids and Orchids on Newbold, we will have sales table of plants that members from the Albury-Wodonga, Wagga Wagga and Wangaratta Orchids Clubs may sell plants. Benching will be Friday afternoon with judging to be held on Friday evening. Please make sure you have these dates in your diary. Our Meeting on 1 st August our guest speaker will be Ailsa Young, myotherapist. Ailsa has been a wonderful sponsor of our newsletter and she is going to tell us all about her profession. Commit yourself - Those who succeed set themselves apart by their commitment. Most of us make an effort: we prepare; we try; but then we hope. If you really want to achieve something, you must be prepared to stretch yourself. You must distil your energy and focus all your efforts. You must give of yourself. if you re not actively involved in getting what you want, you don t really want it Peter McWilliams. This little time line is taken from Now is the Time 170 ways to seize the moment by Patrick Lindsay. Have a wonderful few weeks. Regards, President Jen. Pot. Dal s Moon Golden Sun benched by J Garnier Monthly Flowering Competition June Novice Cattleya Pot. Dal s Moon Golden Sun J Garnier Otaara Hwa Yuan Bay Shu She R Wales Zygo. B.G. White x John Banks benched by C Pratt Lc. Rudak J Garnier Any Other Genera Zygo. B.G. White x John Banks C Pratt Dgma. Unknown G Luke Milt. Royal Robe Diplomat G Luke Species Any Genera Stenoglottis longifoli benched by M Davies Stenoglottis longifolia M Davies Stenoglottis longifolia M Davies Coel. ovalis var. Minor G Luke Intermediate Cym. Sue x Beaconfire benched by T Robinson Intermediate/Miniature Cymbidium Cym. Sue x Beaconfire T Robinson Cym. Sue Mascara T Robinson Cattleya Lalia Boquet x albida T Treasure Phal. Unknown T Robinson Lalia Boquet x albida benched by T Treasure 3

4 Monthly Flowering Competition June continued Open Intermediate/Miniature Cymbidium Cym. tracyanum x Enzan Shining D Robb Cym. Peter Fire Cutie H&K Beazley Cym. tracyanum x Enzan Shining benched by D Robb Any Other Genera Miltassia Aztec Toni K&J Kilo Oncidesa (Dawn Glow x Sunstruck) D Robb Zgna. Kuitpo K&J Kilo Australian Native Den. biggibum T&A Pleitner Den. Unknown J&G Campbell Bulbo. shepherdii T&A Pleitner Miltassia Aztec Toni benched by K&J Kilo Species Any Genera Epi. pepercamia Coel. fimriata Restrepia brachypus Cattleya Lc. Love Knot x Cassistas Lc. Interceps x L. anceps Lc. Puppy Love True Beauty H&K Beazley Den. biggibum benched by T&A Pleitner Paphiopedilums Paph. Unknown J&G Campbell Paph. Binglense J&G Campbell Epi. Pepercamia benched by Paph. Unknown benched by J&G Campbell Lc. Love Knot x Cassistas benched by 4

5 Newsletter by Should you decide that you want an copy of the newsletter please see Pam Haysom and supply your address to saves the club money on postage costs and we help save the trees if we don t use as much paper printing unnecessary copies. If you receive a copy by , please think before you print. Newsletter Contributions Would you like to contribute to the newsletter? If you have any suggestions or contributions, please send them through to pam.haysom@bigpond.com or phone by the Thursday of the month. Dendrobium Speciosum - The Sydney Rock Orchid Dendrobium speciosum is one of the world's most underrated and exciting of orchids. They are capable of producing possibly the largest display plants and most spectacular shows of mass blooming of any known orchid. Extraordinarily tough, hardy and drought tolerant it should be one of the most cultivated plants ever! It can tolerate near frost to temperatures over 45 c without severe damage. This orchid is native to a vast section of Australia ranging from Mallacoota (37 33'S) in South-East 5

6 Victoria to the tropical conditions up past Cairns (16 57 S). Because it is found over such a vast region, botanists have broken the species apart into many subspecies or varieties. It seems every few years they change names again, so we will mainly use the oldest and most accepted names in this guide. Growing under harsh dry and bright Australian conditions it is the perfect orchid for garden planting in tubs or even half wine barrels. Anywhere worldwide that has similar conditions to south-eastern Australia will be able to grow this orchid with ease. Dendrobium speciosum is particularly suited for growing in southern Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain, southern France, and California USA. This is an orchid that thrives on low-medium humidity, bright to very bright light and an open well drained pot with orchid compost. In almost every occasion I have seen this orchid in the wild, it is growing on granite cliff faces or boulders in open grassy paddocks. They are huge growers, so in time they may require a giant tub or preferment position in the garden. Very bright, open, breezy positions seem to be the key to mass blooming. Speciosums can be acclimatised to take 100% fullsun if slowly positioned into brighter and brighter light from late winter onwards. It is in these full sun positions that they will bloom annually without fail. A constantly moist root system is also important, as in natural cliff faces they live on weep moisture constantly. The speciosum's root systems are always covered with a blanket of moist ferns and mosses. Certain African introduced weeds also grow along with speciosums. A good indicator plant is Plectranthus sp. Wherever this grows, speciosum will too! Growing dendrobium speciosum is simple. Avoid frosts, unaccustomed hot sun, too much shade (make sure you can see a shadow when placing hand above foliage) and temperatures above 36c if possible. The orchid trade in Australia has sold speciosum for over 30 years, and much work has been done hybridising many different colour forms and shapes, using the various sub species from up and down the east coast. The most desirable hybrid line bred speciosum is one with intense rich golden yellow colour but not to large in the canes or pseudobulbs. The far Southern form known as dendrobium speciosum var. speciosum is the easiest to grow (and most tolerant of abuse). The deepest colour forms are unusual variants of speciosum var. grandiflorum, these may be rich golden yellow, and sometimes in full sun almost a golden orange. This colour form is extremely rare and known from only a very few parents such as "Kroombit Tops" "Mt Larcom Gold" and "Beranghi Gold". Do not expect the deepest colour forms to come easily or cheaply. Generally a good rich daffodil yellow is to be expected. In nature most clones are a pale lemon or yellow/cream in colour, very rarely are true clear whites seen. These are the rarest colour form. Look for the parent "National White" when trying to obtain a white flowering form. One of the rarest natural forms 'Boreale" from Nth Queensland tends also to be clear white. The shortest caned forms are the pedunculatum forms from furthest north Queensland. They may have fully mature blooming sized canes at only 3" tall! When bred with the largest caned grandiflorums, it is possible to obtain deep colours but on relatively tiny canes (bonsai)! For cultivation avoid the hillii variety as this produces clawed tiny blooms in pale creams. Also it produces giant canes with disproportionately tiny blooms. Many of these are exported as grandiflorums, so buyers beware. Speciosum are often sold in 50mm tubes with plants that are 18 months to two years ex vitro. These are 3" tall and will take about 6 years to bloom. An 80mm size is about 3 years old and about 4-5 years from blooming, 100mm advanced size is about 3-4 years out of the bottle and about 2-3 years from blooming. Pots should always have excellent drainage and not be too large in comparison to the orchid. As they are vigorous growers, re pot annually. The compost should be open well drained and have about 25% rock present. Feeding can be done with Peters Excel Hi K 5 grams (1 teaspoon) per 10 litres. They are virtually free of pests, as their foliage is like heavy gauge plastic (but may occasionally get scale insect). Dockrillia Orchids Fact Sheet With around 30 species identified Dockrillias are an orchid with succulent leaves. They are found in Australia however the genus is also represented in New Guinea, Fiji and nearby areas. Sometimes called Rock Orchids as they are commonly found growing rocks, the root systems find their way into cracks and crevices and through the general debris that collects in such situations. In culture they are mainly grown in hanging baskets. Dockrillia Orchids are an orchid genus only recently given its own status. Originally a part of the Dendrobium group Dockrillia are ephiphytic or lithophytic orchid are native to Australia and New Guinea through the South Pacific to Tahiti, a widely spread and varied genus. Whats the difference between Dockrillias and Dendrobiums? The question is asked why were the Dockrillias only recently separated into a specific genus? 6

7 This has mainly to do with the terete leaved structure, a cylindrical leaf, like a rats tail. They also lack the pseudo bulb of the dendrobium. In terms of species D. striolata is probably the most commonly grown, also called the pencil orchid just another way of describing the leaf structure. This is a sub tropical species from Northern Australia. From the other extreme we have Dockrillia striolata subsp striolata, from Tasmania. Dockrillia species include : D. nugentii Found in Queensland, epiphytic with white to cream flowers. D. striolata One of the easiest to grow, streaked petals and commonly called the Streaked Rock Orchid. D. rigida Very attractive tropical species, flowers vary from a creamy yellow to white with pink to crimson sometimes on the reverse. D. mortii A very rare species in cultivation and in the wild, one of the most delicate of the genus. D. bowmanii Pale lime green flowers with a white labellum. D. schoenina Cream petals with some magenta striping. Dockrillia Orchids Care As we can see from the distribution different Dockrillia species will require different care, humidity and heat are the main factors to consider. Most Dockrillia species are epiphytic, growing naturally on trees such as the Hoop Pine, in cultivation backing boards are used, tree fern and cork being widely used for mounting. The flowering period for most species is best described as sporadic. They can flower at just about any time of the year, spring is fairly common, however other seasons are not uncommon. Dockrillia linguiformis ( Previously known as Dendrobium linguiforme Tongue Orchid Dockrillia linguiformis (Sw.) Brieger (1981) Dockrillia linguiformis, commonly known as the Tongue Orchid, is a hardy orchid, naturally occurring from North Eastern Queensland to South Eastern New South Wales. It grows both epiphytically, on trees, and lithophytically, on rock faces or crevices. This plant is incredibly easy to cultivate, and will tolerate a wide range of conditions. Flowers are cream, white or occasionally yellow, with a slightly spidery form, and are produced on inflorescences usually in September and October. An inflorescence can support up to 20 flowers. The leaves are thick and leathery, smooth on the bottom, with several parallel grooves running along the upper surface. The leaves are usually around 2 4 x cm in size, and are produced alternately from the creeping rhizome. Within the normal distribution of the plant, it can simply be mounted on a cork slab, tree or rock, and left in a fairly open location, with good air circulation. In fact, the creeping form of the plant makes pot culture almost impossible. In general, the slab should be firm and solid, as the plant doesn t seem to grow strongly on softer substrates such as tree-fern slabs. While the plant is very tolerant of exposure to sun, high temperatures and low water, it should be sheltered to some extent from frost in cooler areas, either against a wall, or in a sheltered but sunny bush house. In colder areas, glasshouse cultivation may be necessary. Light daily watering in the morning should be sufficient during the spring and summer, although particularly hot days may merit a second watering, particularly if the leaves start to shrivel and discolour. In the cooler months, watering can be relaxed and less frequent. A slightly drier winter can often improve flowering in the spring. As with many native orchids, overwatering is a common mistake. Fertilizer shouldn t be necessary, as the plant, like many epiphytic orchids, normally grows in relatively low nutrient environments. However, small doses of orchid food on a fortnightly or weekly basis may be beneficial in early spring to summer, if heavy flowering is desired. Propagation for this species is very easy. While growing from seed is very difficult, and usually requires sterile conditions, the creeping form of the orchid makes propagation by cuttings simple. If a short section, with roots and at least four leaves is cut off from the parent plant, and placed on a new slab, it should flourish. Cuttings are best taken in late winter, as new roots will grow in spring, and anchor the plant to its new substrate. As with all orchids, this species is protected by law and should not be collected from the wild. However, it is usually available from orchid nurseries. A very similar species is Dockrillia nugentii, which has broader flowers and occurs in northern Queensland. Text by Richard Brackin (2006 Student Botanical Intern) 7

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