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',