November 10, 2024 Meeting

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Date: Sunday 11/10/2024

Location: Spartan Community Center of Hazelwood
134 E Elizabeth St, Pittsburgh, PA 15207

 

12:30 Spartan Center opens

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Our speaker Bill Goldner will be selling plants. No member sales at this meeting.

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1PM Mini-Class in the classroom

Topic: TBD

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1PM OSWP Board Meeting in the auditorium

All OSWP members are welcome to sit in on the board meeting.

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1:45 Break

 

2:00 OSWP Business Meeting, Show and Tell, Raffle

 

2:45 Break

 

3:00 Speaker Presentation

Topic: Next Generation Miniature Phragmipediums and Ohter New Lines of Breeding

Speaker: Bill Goldner from Woodstream Orchids

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​Dr. Bill Goldner is best known in the orchid world as the owner of Woodstream Orchids with his wife
Lynn Evans-Goldner.

A life-long outdoorsman, Bill’s current mid-life crisis is fly fishing for trout, steelhead, smallmouth
bass, and salmon, a passion he shares with Lynn and their son Zane. Many of the hybrid and cultivar
names registered and used by Woodstream Orchids are names of the many places they have fished.
Now Zane (age 15) is part of the pack which includes golden retrievers Luna and Luca. In fact, at age
four Zane and Bill started a jungle cactus and succulent business for Zane. Zane’s Orchid Companion
Plants now grow over 100 species of epiphytic cacti (or soft cactus as Zane call’s them). He
propagates the cacti from seed and cuttings.

Woodstream Orchids (WSO) is a leading hybridizer and producer of Phragmipediums, Paphiopedilum
species, and Epidendrums. They are well known for their innovative miniature Phrag hybrids. They
are currently upping their game to include white, yellow and kovachii Phrag hybrids.
Bill is an accredited American Orchid Society Judge.

NEWS FLASH!!! The American Orchid Society has just awarded Bill the prestigious 2024 Norito
Hasagawa Award for Hybridizing Excellence (sort of hybridizer of the year). The award recognizes a
career-long effort in orchid breeding (in Bill’s case the genus Phragmipedium). Honestly it was a big
surprise (Bill didn’t know it was a thing). He was thrilled and humbled to join many of his orchid
mentors who have previously received the award including Bill’s AOS judging mentor Dr. William W.
Wilson, Norito Hasegawa, Gene Crocker, HP Norton, Hadley Cash, Theresa Hill, Frank Smith, Terry
Root, and Graham Wood.

Please email Bill at woodstream3@verizon.net for updated lists of Phrags, Paphs, Non-Slipper Genera, Flasks, Epiphytic Cacti. He can deliver preordered plants to the OSWP Meeting in November.

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4:00 Meeting Over and Clean-up

 

4:30 Spartan Center closes

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