Welcome to Jupiter Tequesta Orchid Society
Our group meets the 2nd Wednesday each month at the Jupiter Community Center, located at 200 N. Military Trail (behind the police station). We have renowned experts as speakers at our meetings. Some of our members are AOS award winning Orchid growers. Each meeting is unique with member Orchid Show-n-Tell, Orchid Sales, Orchid Raffles, Networking, Coffee and refreshments.
Come to one of our meetings to see for yourself how much fun and how
informative our meetings are!!!
We are a non-profit organization affiliated with the American Orchid Society.
JTOS was formed in January 1997 to bring together and educate the people of the
Jupiter and Tequesta areas. Pat Dempsey ...and Tim Polovino started out at the Home Depot in Jupiter, teaching the locals how to care for and grow Orchids.
This had a quick following and has expanded each year since. We now have approx. 70 members and most of them attend our regular meeting/classes each month.
Come to one of our meetings to see for yourself how much fun and how
informative our meetings are!!!
We are a non-profit organization affiliated with the American Orchid Society.
JTOS was formed in January 1997 to bring together and educate the people of the
Jupiter and Tequesta areas. Pat Dempsey ...and Tim Polovino started out at the Home Depot in Jupiter, teaching the locals how to care for and grow Orchids.
This had a quick following and has expanded each year since. We now have approx. 70 members and most of them attend our regular meeting/classes each month.
$30.00 Individual Membership $40.00 Joint Membership $45.00 Family Membership per year.
September Speaker:Rafael Romero was born in Caracas, Venezuela in March 1960. As a young man he studied for 2 years at United World College of the Atlantic in Great Britain, graduating in 1978. While studying in Great Britain he learned English. When he returned to Venezuela, Rafael next at-tended Universidad Simon Bolivar, graduating in 1984 with a degree in biology. In 1986 Rafael started working with orchids with a man who would later become his father-in-law, Henrique Graf. Henrique owned the largest and oldest orchid nursery in Venezuela; Plantio La Orquidea which has approximately 5 acres of covered greenhouses. In 1986 Rafael and his wife started the flasking laboratory at Plantio La Orquidea together, which is now the largest Orchid producing laboratory in Venezuela. This laboratory is where they produce the fine orchid species and hybrids that they sell. In August of 2003 Rafael came with his wife and children to the United States and established Plantio La Orquidea in Sarasota, Florida. They describe their operation in Sarasota as a small nursery, approximately 15,000 sq. ft, where they have been able to establish a good sample of the various species and hybrids they produce, and they are complimenting their production with select species and hybrids from around the world.
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