Mac and his wife Helen started an orchid business over 26 years ago after many fascinating trips to the Philippines where Helen is from. With extensive study Mac has become an expert in Philippine and other Asian orchid species, and has grown and successfully bloomed hundreds of different species.

For this lecture Mac will bring and show a variety of easy to grow orchid plants that can bloom great here in Florida attached to your trees. He will explain which ones can be mounted and show how to do that successfully. He will also explain where and how he has seen them grow their best and the type of care needed. This lecture has a lot of information for both beginners and even the more experienced growers.

Mac has traveled to the countries where these plants grow naturally in nature and has gathered advice and information from many large commercial orchid growers and from hundreds of amazing private orchid collections. He will also bring an assortment of great orchid species and hybrid plants for sale on the day of the lecture. So please don’t miss this one.

Mac’s Orchids will be supplying the raffle table this evening, so members may not sell anything at this meeting.  There will be plant judging.

Monthly Meetings

Our Society meets on the second Thursday of each month at 7:30 pm. You are always welcome to attend a meeting, check out what's happening and meet our members.

At each meeting we have an interesting speaker, a raffle table, refreshments, a lending library for members, a ribbon-judged display table of members' plants, and a sales table where you can find fabulous bargains. The meetings are a great opportunity to see and learn of the wide variety of fabulous orchids that can be grown in South Florida.