Promotion for encouraging youth to enter orchid agriculture ☞ ✧✧✧✧✧ One year membership $10 for growers 25 years old and younger . . . Join Now
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AOS Handbook on Judging 2026 . . . more details
Join our next In-Person meeting in Garden Hall or virtual meeting on 
at 1:00 pm.
( Check your SOOS membership newsletter to obtain the up-to-date upcoming access code for the virtual meeting. )
Send your cultural and repotting questions to the ORCHID DOCTOR at ☞ orchiddoctor@soos.ca
Cultural Snapshots (on the stage at 12:15 pm) – Alexsi Antanaitis
About the Cultural Snapshots . . . more details
Speaker: Alina Furtak
Topic: Brachypetalums culture
( Photos for the Virtual Show Table Competition have to be received during the period Apr. 23 rd to Apr. 29 th. )
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Growers of the year Awards
2025
Andrew Geimar - live show
Nick Cox - virtual show
Synea Tan - SOOS Exhibits
☞ ✧✧✧✧✧ Growers Awards of the year 2023-2025 . . . more details
☞ ✧✧✧✧✧ Plant of the Month Awards . . . more details
UPCOMING SHOWS
- Apr. 18 & 19 Toronto Artistic Orchid Association
- May. 2 & 3 Ottawa Orchid Society
SOOS Display Team NEEDS YOUR PLANTS for presenting show display at other Orchid Societies
if you are willing to dedicate, please
email us: ☞ displaycoordinator@soos.ca
SOOS Display: Designed by John Vermeer, David Bryan, Rick Rempel & Clare Wei at the show of the Les Orchidophilesde Montréal on March 21 st & 22 nd. Photo by: Jing Ling.
Orchid Fair in Edmonton Alberta
Photos by: Andrew Geimar
☞ ✧✧✧✧✧ New for the Conservation
- IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) . . . more details
- Bill 5 may affect Ontario's Native Orchids . . . more details
- Conservation Corner . . . more details
- Conservation Efforts . . . more details
- Giving – Conservation in Ontario . . . more details
- Native Orchid Conference 2025 . . . more details
- Orchid Conservation Chelsea 2024 and Outlook 2025 . . . more details
- Orchid Rescue . . . more details
- Projects in 2024 . . . more details
- Projects in 2025 . . . more details
- Supporting the next Generation . . . more details
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