{"id":1934,"date":"2026-01-06T21:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:59:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:59:47","slug":"general-meeting-sunday-january-18-2926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/?p=1934","title":{"rendered":"General Meeting: Sunday January 18, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The speaker for our January meeting is Alina Furtak. Alina is an accredited AOS Judge and a member of the Toronto Judging Centre. She currently serves as President of the Southern Ontario Orchid Society (SOOS). She is an avid traveller, interested in exploring native orchid habitats. Her passion for orchids goes back many years. At an early age, she was exposed to the world of flowers by her grandmother, who cultivated plants for the local flower market and subscribed to multiple botanical magazines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alina’s talk is entitled “The Enchanting Slipper Orchid”, a subject on which she is especially knowledgeable. She recently had two articles published in the 2025 supplement to Orchids Magazine that featured Slipper Orchids. Her presentation will focus on a particular slipper orchid, Paphiopedilum bellatulum, including an overview of this special Brachypetalum species, its natural habitat, flower characteristics and traits passed on to the progeny. She will show some awarded examples and describe how to care for these orchids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meeting takes place at the RBG Headquarters, 680 Plains Rd. W, Burlington, ON, in rooms 3 and 4. The formal meeting begins 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 if so inclined, any orchids or orchid-related items for the raffle, or treats for the refreshment table. Members and guests welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The speaker for our January meeting is Alina Furtak. Alina is an accredited AOS Judge and a member of the Toronto Judging Centre. She currently serves as President of the Southern Ontario Orchid Society (SOOS). She is an avid traveller, interested in exploring native orchid habitats. Her passion for orchids goes back many years. At … Continue reading General Meeting: Sunday January 18, 2026<\/span> →<\/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\/1934"}],"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=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osrbg.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}