2019/03 March ORCHIDS Magazine

Depending on where you live, it may not feel like it but summer is not far off.  In anticipation of this, Nile Dusdieker discusses the pergola he and his wife built that houses many of their plants out-of-doors during the Iowa summer.  Fred Clarke introduces us to two stunning new genera in the Zygopetalum Alliance; Maxthompsonara and Nottara and Barbara Schmidt introduces us to Vanilla planifolia. 

Tara Luna reports to us on her work in conservation of western North American cypripediums - work partially supported by an AOS Conservation Grant and  Rudolf Jenny discusses Cypripedium guttatum and Johann Amman, an early 18th century Swiss botanist. 

Rounding out our March issue, Leon Glicenstein reports on an new hybrid of Habenaria janellehayneiana.

 

 

Also in this issue

• A Summer Place - Building an Orchid Pergola
• Conservation at Work - Biography and Conservation of the Western North American Cypripedium Species and Their Habitats
• Cypripedium Guttatum and Johann Amman
• For the Novice - Repotting Orchids - Wet or Dry?
• Form Meets Function - Vining Orchids
• Lindleyana - Rodriguezia dodsoniana: A New Species of Rodriguezia
• New Refugium Botanicum - Phragmipedium schlimii f. manzurii
• Orchids Illustrated - Rodriguezia
• Spotlight - Orchids in Watercolor
• Tom's Monthly Checklist - March: The Month of Vision
• Vanilla Planifolia - Not Just Another Pretty Flower
• Warming up to Some New Hybrids - Two New Hybrid Genera in the Zygopetalum Alliance