American Orchid Society
Chicago Judging Center
Judgings are held monthly at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL
on the 2nd Saturday of each month at 1:00 PM, unless otherwise announced in the AOS
journal, "Orchids"
Click here
for the schedule of monthly judgings.
Click here
for the list of books in the CJC library.
Click here
for Ron Setiawan's collection of
photos of plants awarded at the CJC.
It all starts quite innocently with some naive, unassuming growers, some blooming plants, a van with plenty of clearance, and a vision of sugarplums.
So come with us now to Classroom 3 at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Watch grown men and women count little flowers and measure their teensy petals. Marvel as you hear them proclaim the merits or demerits of a flower. Ponder the meaning of it all!
Jim Spatzek working on a Cattleya schilleriana ...
... while Sue Golan communes with an Ascocenda.
Successful plants keep a date with the judging center's photographer, Rhonda Peters.
"Oh that's where that extra flash came from!"
John Stubbings and Sherry Maloney consulting the Wildcatt Orchid Database. Or is John pointing out red nine on black ten?
