{"id":1908,"date":"2025-11-07T11:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:33:15","slug":"general-meeting-sunday-november-16-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/?p=1908","title":{"rendered":"General Meeting: Sunday November 16, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1127.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1127-731x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1909\" srcset=\"http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1127-731x1024.jpeg 731w, http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1127-214x300.jpeg 214w, http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1127-768x1075.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1127-1097x1536.jpeg 1097w, http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1127-343x480.jpeg 343w, http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1127.jpeg 1262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The speaker at our November meeting will be Ed Cott. Ed is a retired accountant and college professor and has been growing orchids for about 40 years. He is an AOS accredited judge and operates a small orchid business, Orchid Arbour.  He has an affinity for Cattleyas and Catasetinae. His topic for the meeting is &#8220;An interactive review of the 2024 AOS Special Awards.&#8221; As Ed is also a talented photographer who is frequently seen doing the official photographs of awarded orchids, we can expect to see exceptional photographs of magnificent blooms. Ed will also be bringing a selection of his orchids for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As is customary, the meeting will take place at RBG Headquarters, 680 Plains Road West in Burlington, in Room 5 (subject to confirmation). The formal meeting starts at 2 pm but you are invited to arrive as early as 1:30 to socialize and interact with vendors. Bring your beautiful orchids in bloom for the Show Table and any orchids or related paraphernalia for the raffle. Members and guests welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The speaker at our November meeting will be Ed Cott. Ed is a retired accountant and college professor and has been growing orchids for about 40 years. He is an AOS accredited judge and operates a small orchid business, Orchid Arbour. He has an affinity for Cattleyas and Catasetinae. His topic for the meeting is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/?p=1908\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">General Meeting: Sunday November 16, 2025<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}