Meeting Schedule

All Meetings Take Place at Olbrich Botanical Garden

Schedule is Approximate as Follows:

• 12:00 pm Doors Open for Setup
• 12:30 Socializing During Plant Judging
• 1:00 Meeting Begins; Announcements
• 1:15 Show & Tell Table 
• 1:45 pm Break 
• 2:00 Guest Speaker, In-Person
• 3:00 pm Plant Sales and Chuck's Orchid Challenge
• 3:15 pm Closing Thoughts & Door Prizes
• 3:30 pm Meeting Ends  

Our speaker will be Dr. Kristen Uthus from New World Orchids.  New World Orchids is a family-owned orchid business in Manchester, Michigan.  NWO is owned and operated by Dr. Kristen Uthus with help from her husband, Dr. Kevin Wehrly, and her two sons, Henry and Gus. They specialize in miniature orchids, particularly species, from around the world.  They also have one of the widest selections of Neofinetia falcata (a.k.a. Samurai Orchids) and other Japanese orchids in the US. Kristen travels to orchid societies all over the country to talk about orchids and appears at shows in the Midwest and on the East Coast throughout the year.