November 2026 Member Meeting

About this event

Speaker: Ron Parsons Topic: More details coming soon Plants available for sales at meeting

Bio: Ron Parsons has been growing orchids for more than 40 years and has been interested in and has grown species for most of that time. Ron loves to photograph orchids and other flowers whenver he can, whether it be in trips to see them in nature or in collections. Ron has nearly 60,000 digital images, most of which are orchids, and still retains a slide library that exceeds 100,000 botanical images. He has over 3000 published photos that have appeared in magazines, periodicals, journals and books. Ron has co-authored three botanical books, all with Mary Gerritsen. The first two, published by Timber Press, are Masdevallias, Gems of the Orchid World ; Calochortus, Mariposa Lilies and thei r Relatives . Most recently the third book, a large, luxuriou s 2-volume set A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species w as published by RedFern Natural History P roductions. The latter has nearly 1200 pages, 1800 photographs and features more than 500 species.