"With his diamond-stud earring and dishwater-blond ponytail, Brian Lang suspects that he isn't your stereotypical orchid aficionado...
until three years ago played drums in the Freeport-based rock band Gardenia. Now he's an American Orchid Society probationary judge. ... Saturday ... the Blackhawk Orchid Society Show... Warren Carlson, president ... of the 24-year-old local orchid society. Carlson, a farmer, started raising orchids to humor his wife. Now he tends 1,000 of the tropical flora in a 1,000-square-foot greenhouse. In national competition in 1995, Carlson claimed the fabled Butterworth Prize for a Dendrobium anosmum he grew. To become an accredited judge, Lang has spent nearly six years in training. The first three years, he wrote a paper every six months on his experience as a student judge. His love affair with orchids dates to when he was 13 and his parents, who were in the nursery business, gave him his first. "It's 28 years later, and I've got a 900-square-foot greenhouse with 800 orchids inside." ... Twenty judges from Midwest orchid societies, including those in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis, awarded dozens of ribbons in the Blackhawk Orchid Society show... President's Award: John Claussen of the Wisconsin Orchid Society Milwaukee chapter for a bulbophyllum rothschildianum" source : http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051030/NEWS0107/110300028/1004/NEWS ************* Regards, Viateur _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
