July Work Party Setup
In place of our monthly work party, we will be needing volunteers to help us on Wednesday with setting up our display for the Hilo Orchid Society’s Annual Show and Sale! We really need help transporting members orchids for our display from Kona to Hilo and with the actual display building on Wednesday.
July Work Party Cleanup
In place of our monthly work party, we will be needing volunteers to help us on Sunday with breaking down and cleaning up our display for the Hilo Orchid Society’s Annual Show and Sale! We need members to help with securing everyone’s precious orchids, transporting them back to Kona, and with breaking down the display on Sunday!
August General Meeting
Please join us for our August General Meeting! Doors open at 6 p.m. We will have our usual show and tell and opportunity plant drawing!
August Work Party
Come give back to some of our nature-loving neighbors at the Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary! We will be planting orchids at the sanctuary as part of our Orchid Isle Project! Come see the sanctuary up on Kaloko Drive and give back to our community with orchids!
September General Meeting
Please join us for our September General Meeting! Doors open at 6 p.m. We will have our usual show and tell and opportunity plant drawing!
KOS Fall Show and Sale
KOS will be having its second annual Fall Show and Sale! Just like our Mother’s Day Show and Sale, we will have Early Bird tickets available for purchase approx. 1 month prior for exclusive shopping before the crowds and heat and for first pick of the best plants! And more 40th Anniversary Celebrations! you can purchase Early Bird tickets HERE.
October General Meeting
Please join us for our October General Meeting! Doors open at 6 p.m. We will have our usual show and tell and opportunity plant drawing!
October Nursery Tour
It’s that time of year! In what will hopefully continue as a KOS annual tradition, we will be going on private nursery tours of some of your favorite Big Island Orchid nurseries this month! Date and times subject to change, so check back closer to October for more details! Orchid Works? Quintal’s? ???
November General Meeting
Please join us for our November General Meeting! Doors open at 6 p.m. We will have our usual show and tell and opportunity plant drawing!
November Work Party
Please help us prepare and create our Holiday Party arrangements and decorations! More details to come..
KOS Annual Holiday Party!
Please join us for our Annual Holiday Party! Doors open at 6 p.m. In place of show and tell and opportunity plant drawing, we will aim to have our Christmas Tree of Orchids! Where each paying member and their guest may pick an orchid from the tree (or the stage if they don’t all fit)! And we will aim to have premium orchid baskets for live auction where proceeds go directly back into our wonderful orchid society! More details to come…
July General Meeting
Dr. Leslie EE will be speaking to us! We will also have show and tell and our opportunity plant drawing!
June Work Party
In place of our usual monthly work party or volunteer event, we will be having a picnic! Socialize with your fellow members and enjoy a more relaxed daytime activity. Additional details to come closer to June!
June General Meeting
Carol Klonowski will be presenting to us! We will also have our usual show and tell and opportunity plant drawing!
May General Meeting
Challen Willemsen is coming to speak to us about “Exploring Orchid Habitats from Cloud Forests to Dry Valleys”! Come learn about different orchid environments and see pictures of orchids in situ meaning in their natural environment. We will have our usual show and tell and opportunity plant drawing as well!
Mother's Day Show and Sale
Please join us for our Annual Mother’s Day Orchid Show and Sale at the Old Airport Pavilion! General entry begins at 9 a.m. with Early Bird ticket holders having exclusive access one hour earlier at 8 a.m.! Celebrate Kona Orchid Society’s 40th Anniversary! Early Tickets available here:
April Work Party
In place of a work party, we will be doing a Member’s Garden Tour! This is your chance to see how some of our fellow members grow their orchids, see what we all have in bloom, and spend time outside with orchids (and each other)! If you’d like to sign up to be show off your orchids as one of our tour stops, please let us know! kos@konaorchidsociety.org
April General Meeting
Nicholas Rust will be speaking to us all about Habenaria orchids! (See your emails from KOS regarding a very limited presale opportunity!) We will also have show and tell, opportunity plant drawing, and you can pick up your preorder plants from Rusty Exotics at the meeting!
March Work Party
Join us for our workshop on repotting or potting up orchids! Do you have an overgrown orchid? One in stale/old/sour media? One that is ready to be repotted or potted up? Then bring your plant or plants and join the repotting party! You can pay for the work party here: https://square.link/u/Wn5pnZso?src=sheet
March General Meeting
This month is our Member Plant Sale and Swap! Come and enjoy show and tell, opportunity plant drawing, and support your fellow members or sell some of your plants! (If you’d like to sell orchids, other plants, or supplies, please contact us at kos@konaorchidsociety.org so that we can reserve a table for you!) Anita will also be showing pictures from her trip to the World Orchid Conference in Taiwan last year!
February Work Party
Please join us for our February Work Party from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Stacy’s house! (Address provided upon RSVP to KOS email). Come learn about the PET potting method for orchids that will be led by Matt, who will be bringing example orchids of his that he has been growing using PET including: Catasetinae, Zygopetalum, Warscewiczella alliance, and even Cymbidiums! Bring your plant you’d like to try growing using PET or you can buy a Catasetinae from Stacy at her house!
February General Meeting
Please join us for our February monthly meeting on Valentine’s Day! Doors open at 6 p.m. and meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. We will be doing a hands-on meeting where members may either mount or basket up a novelty Phalaenopsis or other suitable orchid for their growing location. We will also have some beautiful opportunity plants as usual and show and tell!