Denver Orchid Society 9 April 2013
 

While I'm not a member of the society (they meet at night, and I work at night so its hard to go), I had to make a special effort to go to last nights meeting because Glenn Lehr was in attendance last night to talk Japanese orchids. His presentation was mostly about his many trips to Japan and he sold it pretty well as I'm convinced I now have to go. He did bring plants with him and of course his fun personality.

Here he is manning the table of neos and others he brought:
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He showed me something I thought was pretty cool-- a chart developed by the Japan fukkuran society (no idea if I got the name right) that describes all of the many different neos and where they fall in the hierarchy. It is of course in Japanese but it was neat to see anyway:
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He also showed me this plant, which he called the king of neos, which he promptly corrected himself and said maybe it should be emperor of neos, Fuukiden:
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And yes, the price tag does say 950. I believe he said this one sold, too. Who bought it, I do not know. I was a few hundred dollars short.

And what would the visit be if I didn't pick up some plants. Before he left for his trip, which also took him to Salt Lake City and Denver (where I live), I had emailed him about the name differences between the various smaller sedireas and when I told him I want a chabo, he threw one into the box for me. How could I not go? I wasn't planning on any neos but geez how could I not? I wanted to get a tiger in my collection but also wanted a variegated one too. The tiger I went with is Kinrokaku. The name on the tag I believe is misspelled. I notice that happens a lot in Japanese to English letter translations. The variegated ones were pretty darn pricey! So ill have to save up for those.

Behold... El Chabo! (Decided it should have a Latino influenced name):
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And Kinrokaku:
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Notice the roots? Tiger and red roots is what got this one sold. Lol

So that was pretty much it.

Also, Adrienne, Quay and Jim I mentioned you all to Glenn at that you said hi and he was launched into a story and wonderful things to say about each of you! He was particularly excited about Quay and how could he not? Not Bob/ Quay is awesome. He told the story of how Quay's last name is of great significance in Japan. Maybe we should all get our own Quays and go into business.

Awesome! Great looking plants! I would have made the effort to go as well!

I don't think I'd even want someone to GIVE me a $1000 plant! I'd be too scared I would kill it, which would probably lead me to kill it ...

Very cool he had complimentary things to say - especially beyond just basic generic comments - about some of our members!

Glenn even cited the sale of a specimen fuukiden at $300k. Yeah that's nuts.

Loving those RUBY RED roots!!

Everyone likes ruby roots! I think what is so cool about this is that is a tiger stripe with ruby roots... It's really color even out of bloom!

It's an awesome combination!!!

Not bob, are you ready for the show? No its my turn to be jealous of you getting to speak with so many neo junkies!

I am SO ready for the show!! not sure if my wallet is though! :lol: I feel like I'm going to be so overwhelmed by it all, especially the pronunciation of Japanese names! I'll probably just follow Jim around :biggrin: I can't wait! Especially because I just found out that we will be able to observe the judging!

That's cool about the judging!

I know what you mean about the pronunciation of the Japanese names. I put the emphasis on the wrong syllables... Lol

If I see the word I can *I think* pronounce it somewhat correctly, but I have to see the word as I read it and say it a few times, haha!