The Central New York Orchid Society

Meetings for 2021

A Real In-Person Meeting! At our normal meeting location at St. Augustine's Church, Baldwinsville, NY!

Sunday June 6th, 2 pm

Our meeting will be our Annual Spring Auction, though this year there will be a twist. Usually we acquire orchids and supplies as donations from vendors and individuals. This year members and guests will donate plants and supplies. There will be informal bidding, and more details will be forthcoming. I'm sure there will be a Show Table, so bring your blooming beauties!  

It was announced very recently by Jonathan Jones and Jim Marlow that Marlows Orchids might be closing permanently, in early 2021. They still have interesting items in their inventory. 
If you would like to visit the Marlows Orchids range, contact Jonathan for an appointment or for more details about his last sales events. Their final Open House event will be this saturday, june 5th, and they will be offering specimen and personal plants for sale along with the remains of their inventory. After this, Jonathan will be taking on an orchid grower position at Andy's Orchids!

We are all very sad that a pillar of the local orchid community will be leaving us, so please consider visiting or calling them and buying some plants and just say 'hello' and 'thanks'! 

Many orchid shows around the country and around the world have been canceled. One major consequence to the orchid world, other than the obvious major concern that we all practice safe health measures and help each other to stay healthy and safe, is that all of the orchid vendors that we know and love are not able to sell orchids at the shows and their individual open house events now canceled. This will be a major hardship to these vendors. Please consider, if you are financially sound, to purchase some orchids from these vendors!

We have shifted to posting, viewing and talking about orchids on our Facebook page. The link to our page is on the toolbar to the left. Check out our Facebook page; there are people from around the world who visit and upload orchid pictures, questions and comments. If you have orchids flowering now or they did flower during the last few months but meetings were canceled, head over to Facebook and upload these pictures and chat with people there! 

At our previous 2019 Fall Show and Sale, there was 1 AOS award given! Show and AOS Awards pictures will soon be uploaded. Pictures of flowers, displays and artwork can be viewed on the Show Pictures page.

We are now collecting Dues for 2021 since we are holding  zoom meetings with paid speakers. If you would like to receive links to our meetings, then please submit your 2021 dues by March 31st to  Club Treasurer Sue Finger - Thanks!

Our orchid club is now on Facebook! Check it out here and let us know what else you think might be good to have on the site.

Our main website now hosts two photo galleries. One is our the Show Pictures page where images from our orchid shows can be viewed, The second is the Virtual Showtable page, which shows previous years' Member's flowering orchids, which hadn't cooperated by flowering during a show or meeting. This page has been superseded by our Facebook page, where members and many guests post and share orchid pictures. There are native orchid pictures which can be viewed; both links can be found to the left. 

Also a reminder that our newsletter and website have a section where Members can post a list of orchids or orchid-related items they wish to sell/buy/trade. If you are a neighboring orchid society (including Canada) and will be having an orchid auction, these can be listed there as well as on our events calendar. Send requests to Newsletter Editor Chris Smith

(csmith23 at twcny dot rr dot com) and your list will be put in the newsletter and on our website. Please submit your request at least two weeks before the next scheduled meeting - Thanks!

Hope to see you at our next meeting or event!

See the CNYOS calendar for other regional orchid-related events!