Neofinetia falcata (Project 6b - Spring 2008)

[kavanaru]

Hi Shams, where are you going to be in Germany?

just being curious...

[shams]

Originally Posted by kavanaru

Hi Shams, where are you going to be in Germany?

just being curious...

Stuttgart. I will be working at the Museum of Natural History for 2 weeks

[kavanaru]

cool! you must try to find a time to go visit the Wilhelma Zoo and Botanical Garden. I think they currently have either the Fichsia or the Camelias exhibition. Both of them are just AMAZING! I used to live not so far from stuttgart a dn was very often there at teh university doing some experiment for my PhD... Enjoy!!

[shams]

Originally Posted by kavanaru

cool! you must try to find a time to go visit the Wilhelma Zoo and Botanical Garden. I think they currently have either the Fichsia or the Camelias exhibition. Both of them are just AMAZING! I used to live not so far from stuttgart a dn was very often there at teh university doing some experiment for my PhD... Enjoy!!

Oh I LOVE the zoo... ANY zoo! I'm going to have to try and make time for a good visit. Only thing is, I will have my dog with me, so I don't know how many places I can go with my pocket puppy.

That... would be one of the places he can't go But it looks like they have kennels I can leave him at for a while at the entrance... so we'll see.

[cb977]

Originally Posted by shakkai

Sue & All

Had a quick exchange of ideas with Gwen, and here is what I was thinking....

We would have the general photo contest - Awesome Blossom - where all OB Members could vote, as originally planned at the start of the project. It would be nice to do it in the same format as Marty does the calendar contest. If Marty doesn't have enough time, I'd be happy to coordinate and post the photos in a poll. The top 3 photos with the most votes would get the prizes from New World Orchids. The 1st place winner would get to choose which one they wanted.

Then, I thought we could do three themed polls (only votes from people participating in the project) where the winner of each theme gets one of the Erin Pottery pots.

I am still completely bowled over that Gwen has single-handedly got us six prizes for this project!!

Here are the themes that I think could work:

Best in Bloom
Most Creative
Samurai Award (for best Japanese themed photo)

I also thought that, to be fair, the photos for the general contest and the theme contests should be different. It can be the same plant, but different photos.

People could enter just the main one, or any combination, or all of them, if they wanted.

As for deadlines, whatever you think is best. August 1st suits me, as I'm not going to pick up my Neos until June 8th. But I could also do July 1st if we want to be quicker.

What does everyone think?

All of this sounds great to me...I'm going to copy your post into a new thread so polling conversations don't get lost amongst the rest

If we can come to a general agreement on what the different categories should be by July 1, we'll have a full month to make a final choice of what to send in for the poll.

Speaking of which...

I discussed it with Marty. I will be taking care of setting up the polls. There will be a specific email address for your photos to be sent to and that address will be a direct link to me for this project. Since I will be putting this together and am also among the participants, I think we need one important rule regarding our votes. I also think it would make it much more interesting

My suggestion is that we can not vote for our own photo...what do you guys think?

[Bird Song Farm]

The current theme suggestions and your thoughts, Sue, are from me.
AL

[camille1585]

I tried to contact NWO via email last week, but never got an answer. Does anyone know if they are gone somewhere? Otherwise they just missed my email. I wanted to add a plant to my order being shipped from the UK next month.....

[gmdiaz]

I know that Glenn went to Japan May 7th or so, but don't know when they're going to be back!

Which one are you going to add? lol

[camille1585]

Originally Posted by gmdiaz

I know that Glenn went to Japan May 7th or so, but don't know when they're going to be back!

Which one are you going to add? lol

I was going to add a Sedirea 'Nagoran' because the one I got is just a little seedling. I will give that one to a friend and get a nice blooming size one from NWO!! Or keep both!

[shams]

Originally Posted by camille1585

I was going to add a Sedirea 'Nagoran' because the one I got is just a little seedling. I will give that one to a friend and get a nice blooming size one from NWO!! Or keep both!