Orchid Sale in Kingsport TN

OSET will be selling orchids in Kingsport TN at the Exchange Place Garden Fair this weekend, Sat 10-5 and Sunday 12-5. We will be located in the school house. Come and see us!

Hello all, I am sending out a reminder that our February meeting is tomorrow! We are meeting at 2 pm at the Gray Community Center for our “Show Off Our Bloomers” mock show. Please bring your blooming orchids!

Also, I need to send out a reminder. 2013 dues are past due. If you have not paid your 2013 dues, please come tomorrow prepared to do so. If you cannot attend tomorrow and need to pay your dues, contact me and I will email the OSET Treasurer's address to you!

Hello all, I am sending out a reminder that our February meeting is tomorrow! We are meeting at 2 pm at the Gray Community Center for our “Show Off Our Bloomers” mock show. Please bring your blooming orchids!

Also, I need to send out a reminder. 2013 dues are past due. If you have not paid your 2013 dues, please come tomorrow prepared to do so. If you cannot attend tomorrow and need to pay your dues, contact me and I will email the OSET Treasurer's address to you!

Orchid Society of East Tennessee

 

Orchid Society of East Tennessee

OSET WILL not meet tomorrow. Rather our December meeting will be Dec 9th at Linda Lee Earl’s houseParty will begin at 2 pm and everyone is asked to bring a covered dish to share. Linda Lee and Peter will provide the meats .

The Christmas Party is always a lot of fun. Members who have paid their 2013 dues get to take an orchid home with them. You can pay your dues at the party.

Contact me for further information if needed.

Look forward to seeing everyone!

Tammy Fletcher

OSET November 2012 Newsletter

Nov.  4^{th -} 2 pm Members Swap and Sell Day. This is a great opportunity to sell/trade your extra divisions that might be taking up room in your growing space. It is also a nice time to pick-up a new orchid or two. It is a fun social event as well!

 

Bring your bloomers for show and tell as well!

 

 

Hostess Table

Gail & Bob will bring the salty snack & Julie Hyatt has signed up for the sweet snack.

 

Upcoming events

 

Dec.9 Th - OSET Annual Christmas Party at the Earl's house in Kingsport. Remember that everyone who has paid their dues for 2013 will receive a free in bloom or budded orchid.

 

OSET Board Meeting

 

The OSET board met October 11^th to plan next year’s meeting schedule. Since we do not have a program chairman, it was decided that each board member would be responsible for 2 programs each next year.

 

Therefore, Dave Heaton will do a program on June 2^nd and Nov 3^rd. Trish Jenkins will be responsible for May 5^th and Oct 6^th. Linda Lee Earl will take the February 3rd meeting. I will be responsible for April 7^th and Sep 8^th.

 

The club needs a Program Chairman. The board hopes that someone will step up this year and learn “the ropes” in preparation for the 2014 program year.

 

We also agreed that OSET would once again set up at the Johnson City Home and Garden Show in February, the Knoxville and Ashville Orchid Shows in March, Exchange Place in April and Jonesborough Garden Gala in May. Please consider volunteering for these events.

 

 

Submissions for the newsletter will be welcomed! Please email your news, reports or articles by the 22nd of the month to ensure they are included in the new edition. Mail to tpfletcher@charter.net

Directions to the Gray Community Center:

Directions from I 26(I-181) - Take the Gray exit #13 and turn Right. Turn Left onto Old Gray Station Road from the traffic light in front of Dairy Queen. Take the 1^st Left onto Gray Station Road. Take the 2^nd Right onto Gray Ruritan Drive. The 2^nd building on your Left is the Gray Community Center. This building is located next to the Gray Volunteer Fire Department. Address is 113 Gray Ruritan Road, Gray TN 37615

 

OSET October 2012 Newsletter

 

October 7^th at 2 pm (Gray community center) will be the next meeting date for OSET. Our Speaker will be the fabulous Tom Harper of Stone River Orchids. He will be speaking on Phalenopsis and will have plants to sell. Tom is current President of the International Phalenopsis Association one of its founding members.   He will be bring us information on new things going on in the world of Phalenopsis and share cultural information tailored to our growing conditions in East Tennessee.

Hostess Table

Sandy Heaton has one person volunteering for the the hostess table in October. Trish Jenkins will bring a salty snack. OSET needs a volunteer to bring a sweet snack. If anyone can do this for October, please email tpfletcher@charter.net and I will pass the information on the Sandy Heaton.

Sandy tells me we have no one signed up for the November meeting. Please see her at the meeting and sign up to bring a salty or sweet snack to one of our meetings.

Upcoming events

Nov.  4^{th  -} Members Swap and Sell Day. This is a great opportunity to sell/trade your extra divisions that might be taking up room in your growing space. It is also a nice time to pick-up a new orchid or two. It is a fun social event as well!

 

Dec.9 th - OSET Annual Christmas Party at the Earl's house in Kingsport. Remember that everyone who has paid their dues for 2013 will receive a free in bloom or budded orchid.

 

Just for Fun

 

I posted this link on OSET’s face book page the other day and am posting it here for non -face book users. The link is to a book review on a new orchid book published that tells the story of Michael Kovach and the Peruvian Phrag that he brought back to the states and had named after him.

“ The title of this new book by Craig Pittman, "The Scent of Scandal: Greed, Betrayal, and the World's Most Beautiful Orchid," is designed to catch the reader's eye but it is not to be taken literally.”

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/lifestyles/2012/sep/30/tdflair07-orchids-new-book-details-smuggling-scand-ar-2237004/

Submissions for the newsletter will be welcomed! Please email your news, reports or articles by the 22nd of the month to ensure they are included in the new edition. Mail to tpfletcher@charter.net

Directions to the Gray Community Center:

Directions from I 26(I-181) - Take the Gray exit #13 and turn Right. Turn Left onto Old Gray Station Road from the traffic light in front of Dairy Queen. Take the 1^st Left onto Gray Station Road. Take the 2^nd Right onto Gray Ruritan Drive. The 2^nd building on your Left is the Gray Community Center. This building is located next to the Gray Volunteer Fire Department. Address is 113 Gray Ruritan Road, Gray TN 37615

Road Trip Sep 8th

ROAD TRIP!!!!!!!!!!! Sept. 8th. Our destination is Owens Orchids in Pisgah Forrest, NC. (About 20 minutes south of Asheville). Joyce Owens who is the owner and many of you knew her late husband Bill.... awesome orchid growers. We have visited their greenhouses in years past and have been really wowed! Very high quaility plants, great breeding and many years experience behind the orchids at Owens Orchids. There will be something there for everyone.

This will be a car pool trip just like our previous field trip to Marble Branch Farms. I can drive and take 4 others. I would love another volunteer driver or two. OSET will reimburse you for your gas.

We will leave The Gray Community Center at 8:00 am so we can arrive at our destination around 10:00 ish. We can spend several hours shopping and touring the greenhouses and then get lunch on our way back, probably around 1:00-1:30. I'll work on finding us a place to stop for late lunch. We should be back in Gray no later than 5:00 pm, perhaps earlier.

Joyce has graciously offered us a 25% discount on our orchid purchases.

This will take the place of an Orchid Society meeting for Sept.

If you have not gone on a field trip with us in the past, we have a lot of fun and learn at a lot too from these experienced growers about orchid culture and orchids that would grow well in our environments.

Please let me know ASAP if you can go/drive so I can be sure to have a space available for you. The cut off date will be Sept. 1st to sign-up. You can e-mail me or call me (423)349-8099.

Coming up:

We will have a regular OSET meeting OCT. 7th at the Gray Community Center . Our Speaker will be the fabulous Tom Harper of Stone River Orchids. He will be speaking on Phalenopsis and will have plants to sell. Tom is President of the International Phalenopsis Association and is a world traveler. He will be bring us information on new things going on in the world of Phals. from around the world as well as cultural info. for us right here in TN. Put this date on your calendar!

Nov. 4th we will have a members swap and sell day. This is a great opportunity to sell/trade your extra divisions that might be taking up room in your growing space. It is also a nice time to pick-up a new orchid or two. It is a fun social event as well!

Dec.9 th(yes, it is time to get this on the calender) we will hold the OSET annual Christmas Party at the Earl's house here in Kingsport. Remember that everyone who's dues are paid up for 2013 at or by the party, will receive a free in bloom or bud orchid. NICE!!!!!

Happy bloomin',