Newletters 2026
Volume 28 No 2 March 2026: Judging Orchid Shows; Flower of the year 2025, Pharaoh’s Dream ‘Dural’
Volume 28 No 1 February 2026: An Old Man Reflects (by Keith Wallace 2006); Flowers of the Year; Useful websites.
Newletters 2025
Volume 27 No 10 November 2025: Neutrog, our sponsors; Strike Back for orchids: the next generation: Mem Amelia Earhart ‘New Horizons’
Volume 27 No 9 October 2025: Peloric orchuds; Oxalis, a nasty weed
Volume 27 No 8 September 2025: Spring show results; Breeding details of Show Champion; The Blue cymbidium story; Baits and animals around your cymbidiums.
Volume 27 No 7 August 2025: Winter Show results and photos; Breeding details of Show Champion.
Volume 27 No 6 July 2025: Species cymbidium hookerianum and tracyanum details.
Volume 27 No 5 June 2025: Cym Cara Black and Cym Jessie Blakiston breeding details; Albinism in Cymbidiums; SAROC show report.
Volume 27 No 4 May 2025: SAROC Fair; Pure colour and concolour flower photos; New fleck virus kit.
Volume 27 No 3 April 2025: Orchid virus help; Summary of Callum Wilson’s talks on virus from 2012 and 2024; Other notes on virus.
Volume 27 No 2 March 2025: Flower of the Year- breeding details; Orchid fleck virus; Recognising virus in cymbidiums; How to prevent the spread of virus.
Volume 27 No 1 February 2025: Flower of the Year; dealing with weeds in cymbidium pots.
Newsletters 2024
Volume 26 No 1 February 2024: Nov 2023 Club Show Results, Controlling weeds, Cym. Spotted Madam ‘Brydie’
Volume 26 No 2 March 2024: A cymbidium virus message, February showbench results, Cym. ensifolium, Cym. erythraeum.
Volume 26 No 3 April 2024: How to Trace Breeding of Cymbidium Orchids.
Volume 26 No 4 May 2024: The committee; Barry Bailey; Cym. erthrostylum; Cym. suave.
Volume 26 No 5 June 2024: Problems with ants; Ploidy: SAROC results.
Volume 26 No 6 July 2024: Summary of Glenn Heylen’s presentation; Problems with getting old; ‘Jessie Blakiston’ details and photo.
Volume 26 No 7 August 2024: Winter show photos and results; Winter Show Grand Champion Pink Dream ‘Izzy’ breeding details.
Volume 26 No 8 September 2024: Bryant Orchids plant registrations; Spring Show photos and results.
Volume 26 No 9 October 2024: How to construct a simple, low cost shade house; Species and historic plants shown as September meeting; Information about plant labels.
Volume 26 No 10 November 2024: Historically important plant- Cym Alexanderi ‘Westonbirt’; summary of the year.
Newsletters 2023
Volume 25 No 1 February 2023: Flower of the Year, problems with viruses and rodents
Volume 25 No 2 March 2023: Testing for virus in a collection.
Volume 25 No 3 April 2023: Tissue culture at home Pt 1 (Kevin Weston)
Volume 25 No 4 May 2023: Home tissue culture, Pt 2 (Kevin Weston), species cymbidium erythrostylum
Volume 25 No 5 June 2023: Home tissue culture (by Kevin Weston)
Volume 25 No 6 July 2023: Glen Halen growing advice, preparing plants for the showbench
Volume 25 No 7 August 2023: Neutrog visit, Winter Show results, growing advice from Bryan James
Volume 25 No 8 September 2023: Spring show pictures and winners, lots more on Viruses
Volume 25 No 9 October 2023: September Results, lots more on Viruses, Backbulb Propagation Media
Volume 25 No 10 November 2023: October Results, Cym. Alexanderi “Westonbirt”, Cym. suave “John Gay” (4N), Spotted Cyms
Newsletter 2022
Volume 24 No 1 February 2022: Vale Ben Knobben; Flower of the Year.
Volume 24 No 2 March 2022: 2022 committee; species cymbidiums dayanum; the plant auction; rodent bait station; Flower of the Year.
Volume 24 No 3 April 2022: Fleck virus, flower spikes and warm days
Volume 24 No 4 May 2022: Beginning with species orchids, training your flower spikes
Volume 24 No 5 June 2022: Fertiliser and magic water
Volume 24 No 6 July 2022: A breeding problem from way back…
Volume 24 No 7 August 2022: Species orchid hookerianum
Volume 24 No 8 September 2022: A breeding surprise, Experiments with Valley Champion ‘Superstar’
Volume 24 No 9 October 2022: Khanebono ‘Jacinta’
Volume 24 No 10 November 2022: How to understand ploidy in your cymbidiums, An important late flowering breeder. Mem Amelia Earhart
Newsletter 2021
Volume 23 No 1 February 2021: Life membership proposals; 2020 finalists for Flower of the Year.
Volume 23 No 2 March 2021: Mystery Plant
Volume 23 No 3 April 2021: The species cymbidium erythrostylum; Progeny of erythrostylum; Progeny of Early Bird.
Volume 23 No 4 May 2021: April showbench details; Ploidy as it affects orchids; a simple and effective insecticide
Volume 23 No 5 June 2021: May showbench; growing mix trial; Coconut husk potting medium; coir and marble chips.
Volume 23 No 6 July 2021: Winter Show photos etc; June show bench details; Arachnid; Cymbidiums are tough.
Volume 23 No 7 August 2021: West Lakes Info; Beginners’ Group report; Port Adelaide display photos.
Volume 23 No 8 September 2021: Photos from Port Adelaide; Spring show schedule.
Volume 23 No 9 October 2021: Beginner’s guide to your first shade house; September meeting photos; Help for beginners.
Newsletter 2020
Volume 22 No 9 October 2020: Tolstrice ‘Dana’; September Showbench results; Orchid Viruses Part 4.
Volume 22 No 8 September 2020: Tolstrice ‘Dana’; Grand Champion of Spring Show; Spring Show results; Orchid Viruses Part 3.
Volume 22 No 7 August 2020: Winter Show results; West Lakes Shore information; Viruses in orchids (pt2);
Volume 22 No 6 July 2020: Viruses in orchids; July meeting details; members plants in flower now
Volume 22 No 5 June 2020: Information re July display, winter show and photos pf plants currently in flower.
Volume 22 No 4 May 2020: Plants in flower; fertilisers
Volume 22 No 3 April 2020: Seedling of the Year finalists; Vale Alvin Bryant
Volume 22 No 2 March 2020: Flower of the Year photos; Potting medium for deflasking tests; History of Valley Champion ‘Superstar’
Volume 22 No 1 February 2020: November 2019 showbench photos; Flower of the Year finalists; Don Wimber- An International Superstar; EZI-GROW Orchids (WA) photos
Newsletter 2019
Volume 21 No 10 November 2019: October showbench photos and results; foggers for sale; Helpful hints for beginners; Second Division members promoted to First Division.
Volume 21 No 9 October 2019: September Show bench photographs and results, Neutrog order information, September plant commentary, Garden City Plastic November offer.
Volume 21 No 8 September 2019: West Lakes Flower Shower photos; Neutrog Order and Christmas dinner details; Peter Hall tribute.
Volume 21 No 7 August 2019: July showbench results; Species used in standard cymbidium breeding (From OSCOV website (by Julian Croker and Brian Milligan); Spring Show information; : Species and mericlones: articles and resources (from OSCOV website by Brian Milligan)
Volume 21 No 6 July 2019: Winter Show results and photos, June showbench photos and descriptions.
Volume 21 No 5 June 2019: May showbench photos, , Flower of the night, a new rodenticide.
Volume 21 No 4 May 2019: April showbench photos, Graham Morris’s Sydney trip photos, Jeanne Hall ‘Jeanne’- a very special plant.
Volume 21 No 3 April 2019
Volume 21 No 2 March 2019: Members plant auction, Flower of the Year photos, watering and humidifying information
Volume 21 No 1 February 2019: November showbench photos, Heat stress hints and photos
Newsletters 2018
Volume 20 No 7 August 2018 Images from the Dural Cymbidium Show
Volume 20 No 6 July 2018 Automatic sprinklers versus hand watering by Brian Milligan; Cymbidiums and frost by Julian Coker
Volume 20 No 5 June 2018 Cymbidium Species - month by month by Stephen Early; Species responsible for our standard cymbidium hybrids by Julian Coker and Brian Milligan
Volume 20 No 4 May 2018 2N, 3N, 4N. What's it all about? a brief look at Polyploidy by Paul Grip
Newsletters 2017
Volume 19 No 10 November 2017 : Cym Cherry Shower- the cymbidium with three names, by Weegie Caughlan
Volume 19 No 9 October 2017 : Spotty Cymbidiums, by Graham Morris
Volume 19 No 8 September 2017 : Spring Show Results
Volume 19 No 7 August 2017 : Dural Show Trip by Graham Morris
Volume 19 No 6 July 2017 : Winter Show Results
Volume 19 No 4 May 2017 : In the Laboratory by Kevin McLean