"Art Chadwick... Chadwick's father is A.A. Chadwick... a resident of Delaware, has been cultivating, studying and nurturing orchids since 1945. His passion is the cattleya orchid, a species he has written... on for "Orchids," the journal of the American Orchid Society.
... in 1989, Art Jr. founded Chadwick & Son Orchids in Powhatan [Virginia, US]... Chadwick's 10 greenhouses... Chadwick will be discussing "Large Flowered Cattleya Species" at the Western Australian Orchid Spectacular and Conference in Perth, Australia. ... cattleyas were discovered in Brazil in 1817, and arrived in Europe in 1818... Mamie Eisenhower was frequently photographed wearing a corsage of cattleya flowers, and in 1953 an enterprising business named a cattleya after her... first ladies... Jacqueline Kennedy, Bess Truman and Patricia Nixon were similarly honored. Chadwick... naming hybrids for first ladies such as Barbara Bush, Hilary Clinton and Laura Bush. "I got to present Hilary Clinton's orchid to her at the White House," said Chadwick. This flower was noted in Susan Orlean's bestseller, "The Orchid Thief:" "Chadwick & Son, a Virginia nursery, recently registered a hybrid named Hilary Rodham Clinton 'First Lady.'" "When you hybridize an orchid, if the plants have never been put together before, you can name it anything you want to," explained Chadwick. "You submit the name to the Royal Horticulture Society, and they accept or reject it!" Other famous people that have inspired the names of Chadwick's hybrids include Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth and Tipper Gore. And, after naming a hybrid after Martha Stewart, Chadwick and his father were invited to appear on the celebrity's television show." URL : http://www.goochlandgazette.com/index.php/news/article/local_orchid_grower_to_speak_in_australia_this_month/ photo : [caption : "L.c[Lc] Powhatan... created by Chadwick's father, A.A. Chadwick, 30 years ago] http://www.goochlandgazette.com/images/uploads/080811-Art-Chadwick-Orc111_thumb.jpg ************** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
