Oklahoma Orchid Society

OOS Meeting—June 2026
2026-06-21 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Will Rogers Gardens Exhibition Center, 3400 NW 36th Street, Oklahoma City, OK, 73112, United States
The Business Meeting will take place at 1:00–1:50pm; Program Presentation at 2–3pm; and Show Table, Auction, and Raffle at 3–3:30pm.

Program

Former OOS president Jana Butcher will present on interior lighting concerns for the home orchid grower and how to use the Society’s light meter.

GPJC July Judging
2026-07-18 10:00 - 15:00 | Southwestern College, Beech Science Center, 100 N College Street, Winfield, KS, 67156, United States
All orchid enthusiasts are encouraged to submit orchids for judging by taking them to the GPJC the morning before judging begins or by making arrangements with one of OOS’s AOS judges to take the orchids to judging. Members should download and complete the “Judging Entry Form” for each orchid submitted. Orchid plants and cut flowers submitted at a monthly GPJC judging event or AOS-sanctioned show are candidates for an award.

OOS Meeting—July 2026
2026-07-19 13:00 - 16:00 | Will Rogers Gardens Exhibition Center, 3400 NW 36th Street, Oklahoma City, OK, 73112, United States
The Business Meeting will take place at 1:00–1:50pm; Program Presentation at 2–3pm; and Show Table, Auction, and Raffle at 3–3:30pm.

Program

TBA

Biography

TBA

GPJC August Judging
2026-08-15 10:00 - 15:00 | Southwestern College, Beech Science Center, 100 N College Street, Winfield, KS, 67156, United States

OOS Meeting—August 2026
2026-08-16 13:00 - 16:00 | Will Rogers Gardens Exhibition Center, 3400 NW 36th Street, Oklahoma City, OK, 73112, United States
The Business Meeting will take place at 1:00–1:50pm; Program Presentation at 2–3pm; and Show Table, Auction, and Raffle at 3–3:30pm.

Program

Erica Hannickel will present via zoom on Empresses and Orchids: Cymbidium ensifolium and Coelogyne cristata.

Biography

Erica Hannickel is a nonfiction author and professor of history at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, as well as a master gardener. An orchid enthusiast for more than 20 years, she currently grows about 150 orchids at home on two baker’s carts and in a miniature orchid cabinet. Her most recent book Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) chronicles little-known stories of orchids involving empresses, artists, enslaved people, and naturalists from around the world. The book was longlisted for the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, shortlisted for the 2023 Wisconsin Library Association Nonfiction Award, and won the 2023 Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Literature Award.

OOS Volunteer hours opportunity - Christmas lights check
2026-09-05 08:30 - 12:00 | Will Rogers Gardens Exhibition Center, 3400 NW 36th Street, Oklahoma City, OK, 73112, United States
In order to reduce our rental costs, Will Rogers Gardens allows OOS members to volunteer to check Christmas lights. We will be meeting in our normal meeting room in the Center. Event is come-and-go.

GPJC September Judging
2026-09-19 10:00 - 15:00 | Southwestern College, Beech Science Center, 100 N College Street, Winfield, KS, 67156, United States

OOS Meeting—September 2026
2026-09-20 13:00 - 16:00 | Will Rogers Gardens Exhibition Center, 3400 NW 36th Street, Oklahoma City, OK, 73112, United States
The Business Meeting will take place at 1:00–1:50pm; Program Presentation at 2–3pm; and Show Table, Auction, and Raffle at 3–3:30pm.

Program

TBD

GPJC November Judging
2026-11-21 10:00 - 15:00 | Southwestern College, Beech Science Center, 100 N College Street, Winfield, KS, 67156, United States

GPJC December Judging
2026-12-19 10:00 - 15:00 | Southwestern College, Beech Science Center, 100 N College Street, Winfield, KS, 67156, United States
