Linda is speaking here on Monday (and on Sunday at the judges' training
session, but the odds of me getting down there in the morning are slim).
I've seen one of her talks on Oncidium alliance breeding that I thought was
interesting. She's doing something on Oncidium culture for our meeting, and
something on Stanhopeas for the training session. If you are that close to
Woodland you should definitely give her a try sometime, the travel costs
your society would have to pay should be pretty low (always something to
keep in mind when scheduling speakers).

Alan Koch was here a couple months ago and he was very good. We had Michael
from RF Orchids at the beginning of the year, he gave a pretty good culture
talk. Leo Schordje gave us a pretty good talk on Phrag. species a few
months ago. The most boring speaker we've had was probably Stig Dalstrom
talking about Odontoglossum taxonomy (or something like that, I kept nodding
off) a few years ago.

Has anyone heard Greg Allikas speak on orchid photography? I was wondering
whether to push for that one sometime. Our current V.P. wasn't interested
in a photography talk, but I can try again next year with the new V.P. :-)

-danny


"Lady Blacksword" wrote in message
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I didn't know Linda did speaking jobs.
Assuming this is the Linda Wilhelm of Linda & Rolf Wilhelm who own
Woodland Orchids, I'd love to know if anybody on here would recomend her
as a speaker, since we go down to their place frequently. (Woodland is
about 45 mins from us) I mostly know Rolf, but if she does speaking, this
might explain why she's out of town a lot.
Let me know if any of you have more info on this, so I know whether to
talk to our OS prez about having her speak.
Murri

"K Barrett" wrote in message
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OrchidKitty wrote:
Hi all,

Of all the speakers that your orchid society has sponsored, who are
some U.S. speakers that you'd especially recommend?


I've enjoyed (in no particular order)

Bill Thoms
Dennis Olivas (I don't think he travels)
Yin-Tung Wang (I'm not sure he travels much, either)
Alan Koch
Helen Congelton
Eric Christensen
Bob Gordon (some say he's a blow hard, but I like him)

There's probably a big east coast vs west coast divide. For example I've
never heard Linda Wilhelm or HP Norton, or Ray Barkalow for that matter

K Barrett