Tim Culbertson’s talk is entitled “Beautiful Miniature Vandaceous Orchids for Outdoors.”   These plants are easy to grow and flower, are vigorous, and have low cultural demands; they are natives of Australia or Japan and will grow easily outdoors in California.  Tremendous advancements in breeding Sarcochilus and Neofineta have been made recently, and he will share some of these with you, as well as help identify some of the important parents in the backgrounds of new and modern colors found in these genera.  By the end of this presentation, you will have a new appreciation of what goes into breeding trends for these types of plants, as well as an appreciation of their beautiful flowers and ease-of-growth.  Tim will be providing an opportunity to get some of the newest, modern, cutting-edge temperature-tolerant Vandaceous species and hybrids!