Beginning at 1pm, this month’s Grower Tips (formerly Green Growers) will consist of a Q&A panel to address your orchid growing challenges. Come with questions, and they’ll provide answers! The Business Meeting will follow at 1:20–1:50pm; Program Presentation at 2–3pm; and Show Table, Auction, and Raffle at 3–3:30pm. Follow CDC guidelines with respect to COVID-19 precautions.

OOS President, Dr. Douglas Needham, will be presenting “Bedtime for Orchid: Winterizing Your Collection” as this month’s program. He will discuss light, temperature, watering, humidity, fertilization, and pest management to ensure your orchids thrive through winter.

Speaker’s Biography: Dr. Douglas Needham is retired Vice President, Education, Longwood Gardens, and former Professor of Floriculture, Oklahoma State University. He earned his B.S. in Biological Sciences and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Horticultural Plant Breeding and Genetics from Purdue University. He was recognized as Distinguished Agriculture Alumnus by Purdue in 2017, and he was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by The Royal Horticultural Society in 2018. He has enjoyed growing flowering plants since he was a child, and that passion continues throughout retirement. He grows hundreds of orchids in cool and warm glasshouses, he designs and cultivates English-inspired perennial borders, and he is restoring a native prairie. Dr. Needham enjoys sharing his passion for growing plants with others through workshops, presentations, tours, and consulting.