{"id":1609,"date":"2024-01-08T04:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T08:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2024-01-08T12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T16:14:25","slug":"general-meeting-sunday-january-21-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/?p=1609","title":{"rendered":"General Meeting: Sunday January 21, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20CDDD71-36B0-4AB8-B495-0913100F4C8A_4_5005_c.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"318\" src=\"http:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20CDDD71-36B0-4AB8-B495-0913100F4C8A_4_5005_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20CDDD71-36B0-4AB8-B495-0913100F4C8A_4_5005_c.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20CDDD71-36B0-4AB8-B495-0913100F4C8A_4_5005_c-300x239.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ctt. Chocolate Drop &#8216;Kodama&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>How did a bit of an ugly ducking, from two very diverse parents, become one of the most successful parents of all time in the Cattleya alliance? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Cattlianthe Chocolate Drop and its Stunning Hybrids&#8221; is the topic for our January meeting. Jean Allen-Ikeson will give an illustrated talk about the development and culture of this beauty. We can expect to see lots of red!  Jean Allen-Ikeson is well-known to OSRBG members, having addressed our group on several occasions.  A judge in the Toronto Judging Centre, she was once OSRBG newsletter editor (in the late 1990s). Jean has written numerous articles for\u00a0<em>Orchids\u00a0<\/em>magazine and given webinars for the AOS besides being National Education Coordinator for AOS Judges and Chair of the Editorial Board of the AOS.  She grows in a greenhouse and sunroom \u2018up the escarpment\u2019 from Dundas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting will take place at Royal Botanical Gardens Headquarters, Rooms 3 &amp; 4, 680 Plains Rd. W., Burlington, Ontario. The formal meeting begins at 2 pm but you are invited to arrive as early as 1:30 to socialize and interact with vendors. Please bring your beautiful orchids in bloom for the show table and any orchids or orchid-related items you may have for the raffle. Masking (or not) according to personal preferences. Members and guests welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did a bit of an ugly ducking, from two very diverse parents, become one of the most successful parents of all time in the Cattleya alliance? &#8220;Cattlianthe Chocolate Drop and its Stunning Hybrids&#8221; is the topic for our January meeting. Jean Allen-Ikeson will give an illustrated talk about the development and culture of this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/?p=1609\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">General Meeting: Sunday January 21, 2024<\/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":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}