Custom Cattleyas

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I had the pleasure of hearing Arthur E. Chadwick, author of </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Classic-Cattleyas-Arthur-Chadwick/dp/B002IKLMIE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342403477&sr=8-1&keywords=cattleya">The Classic Cattleyas</a>, </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">speak on February 15^th when he gave a talk to the Windsor Farms Garden Club in Richmond, Va. An informative and entertaining presenter, Chadwick explained how to grow orchids in the home. He is pictured in today’s <em>New York Times </em></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">with First Lady Michelle Obama, for whom he created a namesake Cattleya orchid. (See <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fashion/an-orchid-by-any-other-name-is-a-marquee.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;">An Orchid by Another Name Is a Marquee</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Jason Tesauro.)</span></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjghfCAly5yqA1mvroxRiimNPGuJPrEa1eW-Qgd4vuuzlyGpAkcDNdSnwF1oIra6editrdinn4wPg8zKZXjlICqBTrNntaxZ4frolhhnczWMBJT6mw_MQcYz6eojE-AAc8GS6bfs9ZCFAA/s1600/Artworchids.closeup.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjghfCAly5yqA1mvroxRiimNPGuJPrEa1eW-Qgd4vuuzlyGpAkcDNdSnwF1oIra6editrdinn4wPg8zKZXjlICqBTrNntaxZ4frolhhnczWMBJT6mw_MQcYz6eojE-AAc8GS6bfs9ZCFAA/s640/Artworchids.closeup.JPG" width="480" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo taken by Kay Tyler at Windsor Farms Garden Club meeting</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Art, as Chadwick is known, and his father A. A. Chadwick, operate <a href="http://www.chadwickorchids.com/">Chadwick & Son Orchids, Inc.</a> in Powhatan, Va</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. The younger Chadwick calls the cattleya the “crème de la crème” of orchids. This is not a plant you can buy at the grocery store. The cattleya is the original corsage orchid and it grows in the rain forest, where it hangs from trees and thrives in full sun. It takes seven years to cross-pollinate, so hybrid orchids are relatively expensive.</span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOeDfu5YbuwXLJwIN7jFI4MgbASLWUw7fhOQ2iEPCHHR0X6MNEt1Xm0A3lIRHrKLkjaXYUPKsAutC5ov0548WDDfLTmbeeEMJgvgr2MWQllVFcPHk5msd7e7MwIoxA5S38-g8DUtInbrM/s1600/Febmtg.ArtChadwickOrchids.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOeDfu5YbuwXLJwIN7jFI4MgbASLWUw7fhOQ2iEPCHHR0X6MNEt1Xm0A3lIRHrKLkjaXYUPKsAutC5ov0548WDDfLTmbeeEMJgvgr2MWQllVFcPHk5msd7e7MwIoxA5S38-g8DUtInbrM/s640/Febmtg.ArtChadwickOrchids.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Photo taken by Kay Tyler at Windsor Farms Garden Club meeting</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Chadwick and Son creates celebrity orchids, including the stunning purple <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cattleya</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Priscilla Presley</i>, a hybrid selected for the wife of Elvis, who gave her sixteen purple cattleyas for her sixteenth birthday. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cattleya</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Priscilla Presley</i> has a price tag of $200 due to its unique nature and the amount of time needed to create it.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Chadwick & Son will create a hybrid cattleya for non-celebrities, too, as long as they are willing to pay $1,500 and wait. For their patience, they will receive 20 seedlings and a Royal Horticultural Society stamp of approval and verification of lineage.<o:p></o:p></span></span>

Custom Cattleyas

I had the pleasure of hearing Arthur E. Chadwick, author of  The Classic Cattleyas , speak on February 15 th when he gave a talk to the Win...

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