November 2026 Meeting

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Hello OSWP Members and Friends,

 

Below is the information regarding our upcoming meeting on Sunday, November 15th, at Spartan Community Center of Hazelwood: 134 E. Elizabeth Street, 15207. (Off Second Avenue in Hazelwood)

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Parking: In the lot by the door, on the street, or in the overflow lot across the street.

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12:30 Spartan Center opens

 

12:45

Bill Goldner of Woodstream Orchids will have orchids for sale. Members may not sell their orchids at this meeting. Come and shop!

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PLEASE NOTE: Our agreement with the Spartan Center requires us to cover the tables. Please wait until the tables get covered before putting anything on them.

 

1PM Mini-Class in upstairs classroom

Topic: Mounting Orchids

Speaker: Thathmini Kularatna

 

1:45 Break

 

2:00 OSWP Business Meeting, Show and Tell, Raffle

Lots of information about the OSWP to be discussed, see our members beautiful orchids in bloom and learn about them and buy a ticket and win something from our raffle table.

 

2:45 Break

 

3:00 Speaker: 

Bill Goldner of Woodstream Orchids will be speaking on Phragmipediums.​

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Bill Goldner of Woodstream Orchids

Our November meeting speaker will be Bill Goldner, PhD of Woodstream Orchids. Bill has been a stable orchid vendor at our orchid show for years. Unfortunately, he has decided to scale back coming to orchid shows and he didn’t vendor at our show in 2025. He was here for a meeting last Fall but brought the wrong thumb drive. Instead of presenting a talk about Phragmipediums his talk was about Epidendrums. He promises to bring his Phrag presentation.

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Dr. Bill Goldner is best known in the orchid world as the owner of Woodstream Orchids with his wife Lynn Evans-Goldner.

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A life-long outdoorsman, Bill’s current mid-life crisis is fly fishing for trout, steelhead, smallmouth bass, and salmon, a passion he shares with Lynn and their son Zane. Many of the hybrid and cultivar names registered and used by Woodstream Orchids are names of the many places they have fished.

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Now Zane (age 17) is part of the pack which includes golden retrievers Luna and Luca. In fact, at age four Zane and Bill started a jungle cactus and succulent business. “Zane’s Orchid Companion Plants” now grows over 100 species of epiphytic cacti (or soft cactus as Zane calls them). He propagates the cacti from seed and cuttings.

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Woodstream Orchids (WSO) is a leading hybridizer and producer of Phragmipediums, Paphiopedilum species, and Epidendrums. They are well known for their innovative miniature Phrag hybrids. They are currently upping their game to include white, yellow and kovachii Phrag hybrids.

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Bill is an accredited American Orchid Society Judge.

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The American Orchid Society awarded Bill the prestigious 2024 Norito Hasagawa Award for Hybridizing Excellence (it’s sort of the hybridizer of the year award). The award recognizes a career-long effort in orchid breeding (in Bill’s case, the genus Phragmipedium). It was a big surprise to Bill—he didn’t know it was a thing. He was thrilled and humbled to join many of his orchid mentors who previously received the award, including Bill’s AOS judging mentor Dr. William W. Wilson, Norito Hasegawa, Gene Crocker, HP Norton, Hadley Cash, Theresa Hill, Frank Smith, Terry Root, and Graham Wood.

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Please email Bill at woodstream3@verizon.net for updated lists of Phrags, Paphs, Non-Slipper Genera, Flasks, and Epiphytic Cacti. He can deliver preordered plants to the OSWP Meeting in November.

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Bill will also be bringing plants for sale. No member sales.

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4:00 Meeting Over and Clean-up

 

4:30 Spartan Center closes