November 12th, 2012
6:45PM at St. Anne’s Church in Gorham.
Visitors and New Members always welcome!
We will have a talk by Tanya Lam
on Long-lasting and Frequent Blooming Species.
Tanya will also be bringing plants for sale from California:
1. Please download the pdf list of her plants for sale. Please email her if you have questions.
2. If you are interested in purchasing any, please email her at tanyah.lam@gmail.com before Friday, November 9th. She will only be bringing plants that people have requested.
About Tanya…
Tanya has been growing orchids since 1996, since then she listened, experimented, and was creative in adjusting her growing methods to provide her orchids with their healthiest root systems, and in turn she enjoys their best performances in flowering. During the first few years of growing orchids, her job required extensive travel, which required her to have good planning and orchid mixes that stay moist exactly 7 days. Tanya created her own mixes to fit her weekly watering schedule and condition. Her orchid mixes turned out to be outstanding, which she has a whole presentation on her successes using two different types of coconut medium. Orchid has become Tanya’s obsession and second profession.
Tanya grows many species and hybrids in San Jose, California. Her special interests are both species and hybrids of psychopsis, dendrobium, epidendrum, paphiopedilum, encyclia, cattleya, vandacous, angraecoids, and she is recently exploring many other orchid genera. Tanya likes “showy” orchids and long or frequent blooming orchids. She always ‘wowed’ the orchid society members with her beautiful and well-grown plants.
Tanya uses 99% rain water, she collects over 4000 gallons of rain water each year, and despite her busy work and travel schedule, she manages to keep her 2000 orchids virus free, pest free, and healthy.
Tanya belongs to 6 orchid societies in the San Francisco bay area, is current Vice President of Malihini Orchid Society. Wherever she travels, she visits the local orchid society and learns how orchids are grown in different parts of the country. She dreams to travel to see orchids in different parts of the world.