Maryland Orchid Society Show and Sale March 9 - 11, 2012 Friday 10-6, Saturday 10-9 and Sunday 10-6 Thousands of blooming orchids on display and for sale! Held in conjunction with the Maryland Home and Garden Show - plenty for non-orchid loving family members to do while you enjoy our show! Three New Vendors added this year for a selection diverse enough to satisfy both the orchid novice and the serious collector. Chaz Smith (Laelias) Fishing Creek Orchids J&L Orchids Little Brook Orchids The Little Greenhouse Michel Orchid Nursery Orchids 4 You Quarter Acre Orchids Seagrove Orchids Sunisa's Clay Flowers Woodstream Orchids Many misc. species, rupicolous laelias, paphs, phrags and phals, pleurothallids, oncidinae, terrestrials and more! Hourly door prize drawings, Free tours and seminars, see our website for more details and directions. www.mdorchids.org

Wow! I'm way bad jealous! I don't recognize all the names, but the ones I do recognize are good ones: Hello Darkness is a beautiful "black" iris. Starship Enterprise is a gorgeous thing. Calico Ruffles is a Walter Moores iris; he used to live in Texas (I'm thinking Ft Worth, but I can't remember exactly). Now he's in the south, & he's a regular contributor to gardenweb's Iris Forum. & Quaker Lady is one of my favorite historics! (& do I detect a theme in the first few? China & Chinese in the names?) You done good!

Super variety of cultivars & the rhizomes are big fat healthy ones. Come early for best selection; some of them sell out early. You may get some bonus UFOs (unidentified flowering objects)! at the Ft Worth Botanic Gardens.

Sale starts at 9 am sharp. There is always lines, waiting so best to get there earlier.