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Speakers
Shirley Burr Moore Memorial Lecture
Lost Orchids of the Organ Mountains, Brazil Dick holds a degree in botany and a Ph. D. in plant pathology, specializing in potato blight. After seven years in research he visited an old friend, David Miller, in Brazil, where he quickly decided to employ his research techniques in growing orchids from seed. In 1975, Dick founded the Equatorial Plant Company which produces flasks for hobby growers and commercial seedling flasks for Dutch, German, Australian and U.S. orchid growers. The two friends have spent the past 32 years working to protect the fragments of the Atlantic Coastal Rain Forest that now make up the Sitio Bacchus and nearby reserves. Dick established the Rio Atlantic Forest Trust (UK Charity # 1057621) to support their conservation efforts. During visits to Brazil, Dick started to write descriptions of the orchids found at Sitio Bacchus. These descriptions formed the basis of their books Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rain Forest of South Eastern Brazil and the soon to be released The Organ Mountains, their History and their Orchids. _________________________________________________________________________________
Herding Catts: A Beautiful Trail through Difficult Phylogeny An orchid grower since his childhood, Tom is a very enthusiastic advocate of the orchid hobby and promoter of ‘The Orchid Lifestyle,’ i.e., lots of plants, old worn-out clothes and furniture and a diet with no protein. Tom’s interest in orchids has influenced him to travel extensively through Latin America and he has seen many of the orchids of central and South America in situ, which is very helpful in understanding how to grow them. He has a special fondness for the orchids of Costa Rica and Panama as he travels there often to visit his brother. Tom has worked at some of the East Coast's most cherished botanic gardens and private estates and is in his 6th year as the Museum Specialist for the Orchid Collection at the Smithsonian Institution. The collection is an extremely diverse assemblage of species and hybrids from all over the world collected for their educational, conservation, and ornamental value. Tom is an accredited American Orchid Society judge and writes the "Orchid Checklist" column in Orchids magazine. _________________________________________________________________________________
Culture and Hybridization of Reed-Stemmed Epidendrums James, with his wife, Lauris, is the owner and operator of Cal-Orchid, Inc. James began his orchid career at Santa Barbara Orchid Estate in 1971. In 1987, he left to establish Cal-Orchid. Together, James and Lauris have built a world-renowned orchid nursery providing one of the largest varieties of orchid species and hybrids in the U.S. James is known for having a sharp eye for the new and unusual plant. He has published articles in numerous magazines and is an international lecturer appreciated for his depth of knowledge as well as his sense of humor. He is an accredited Cymbidium Society judge.
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