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Welcome to the official website of the North Carolina Piedmont Orchid Society. The primary purpose of our society is to educate our members and the general public in the areas of growing, exhibiting and conserving this wonderful group of plants, while fostering relationships with each other.

We normally meet the first Sunday of the month at the UNCC McMillan Greenhouses in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Please check our calendar for specifics. In addition to these regular meetings, we sponsor an orchid show each year in Charlotte, and participate in regional orchid shows. We also have special meetings, a picnic, and an auction during the year.

As President, I cordially invite you to join us at any of our events, and discover along with us the pleasure of growing together in this wonderful hobby.

Jay Sifford
President, NCPOS

  
     
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February 5 meeting info - posted on - - Friday, February 03, 2012
Please join us for our next meeting on Sunday February 5 at the UNCC Greenhouse. Our guest speaker will be Larry Mellichamp, professor at UNCC and fellow NCPOS member.
As always, lunch will be at noon and the meeting will commence at 1PM. Please bring your blooming plants for the show table.
Our guest speaker this month is our own Dr. Larry Mellichamp, Professor of Botany at UNCC. His talk is entitled “Why are orchids so strange – everything you never wanted to know about orchids , so you didn’t ask” It will be a light and lively look at the world of orchids - what they are, how they grow, what their flower structure is, their strange pollination behavior, the biggest, smallest, ugliest, prettiest, smelliest, etc. And he will address any questions about orchid biology. No culture, no hybrid names, no substance – just fun and fluff.
Larry teaches courses on botany and horticulture and is also director of the UNC Charlotte Botani- cal Gardens, with 10 acres of outdoor gardens containing natives and exotic, and two green- houses displaying the wonders of the world’s diverse flora, especially orchids. He speaks on such topics as pollination biology, bog gardening, winter gardening, and landscaping with native plants, including orchids. Larry did his botanical graduate work at the University of Michigan, and has traveled and collected plants in Mexico, Costa Rica, Borneo, Hawaii, South Africa, China and Australia. He is the 2003 recipient of the Thomas Roland Medal of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society; and is co-author of recent books The Winter Garden (1997, with Peter Loewer) and Wild-flowers of the Western Great Lakes Region (1999) and Bizarre Botanicals (2010 with Paula Gross.).
In addition to our normal program we will be discussing preparation for the upcoming orchid show at the Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden. 
 
     
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NCPOS 2012 Orchid Show - posted on - - Friday, February 03, 2012
We are happy to announce that our annual society orchid show and sale will be held at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, 6500 South New Hope Road, Belmont, NC, on Friday, February 24, running through Sunday, February 26. Our 2012 show theme is "Orchid Expedition: Celebrating the Allure". We will take a journey back in time to celebrate the explorers, orchids hunters and collectors who paved the way for this wonderful hobby that we share.

We will be joined by other societies, individuals and orchid vendors to create over one dozen exhibits showing off our most spectacular orchids. In addition, three orchid vendors (Carolina Orchids, Seagrove Orchids and Woodland Orchids) will be selling plants and offering advice. The society will once again be selling orchid related supplies.

Show hours are Friday: noon until 5
Saturday and Sunday: 9 - 5

Admission is free after paying applicable Garden admission. For more information on the Garden, please see their website: www.dsbg.org.

We also urge you to purchase tickets to the preview party which will be held on Friday, Feb. 24, from 6 - 9. This is quite the event.

We will look for you there! 
 
     
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Directions to UNCC's McMillan Greenhouse

Monthly NCPOS meetings are held the first Sunday of each month, unless otherwise announced. We meet at the McMillan Greenhouses at UNC Charlotte. The meeting starts at 12:00 with a covered dish luncheon, followed by a business meeting at 12:45, a show table and discussion and finally a program discussion of orchids.

Directions to the greenhouse are as follows:
1. From I-85 take the City Blvd exit and proceed following Highway 49 toward UNCC
2. After you pass under Harris Blvd. watch for Cameron Blvd. on your left and turn there; you are now on the UNCC campus.
3. Proceed on Cameron, passing University Rd. on the right and then Phillips Rd. on the left to the next turning to the right which is Craver Rd. DO NOT SPEED IN UNCC!
4. Turn right onto Craver and proceed past five large buildings on your right. You will then see the greenhouse on your right and the parking lot just before it.

 
 
     
Date » 05 February, 2012    Copyright 2010, North Carolina Piedmont Orchid Society