About us

We are an award winning, volunteer run, 501c(3) non-profit organization formed in the spring of 1963 to foster and encourage the education of it's members with respect to the culture, growing, hybridization, preservation and perpetuation of species and hybrid orchids of every variety. 

We meet at 7pm on the third Tuesday of every month, except for December, at the Pacific Palisades Women's Club. At each meeting members learn of upcoming events, an expert speaker shares their experiences with cultivating orchids and the Society holds a silent plant auction as well as a raffle for orchids. 

Light refreshments are provided. 

Venue

Pacific Palisades Women's Club
901 Haverford Avenue,
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

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Our next meeting

7.30pm Tuesday,  May 15, 2012
Orchids in Singapore and Thailand
Falu Trieu and Birute Vileisis

Longtime MOS members Falu Trieu and Birute Vileisis will share the highlights of their recent trip to Singapore and Thailand in November
2011. If you didn't have the opportunity to attend the 20th World Orchid Conference, Falu and Birute will present the best of the WOC winning displays and awarded plants. In addition, they will also give an illustrated over-view of the orchid displays at the National Orchid Garden in Singapore's National Arboretum as well as a sneak preview of the extraordinary plant display at the newest horticultural attraction in Singapore, Gardens by the Bay, scheduled to open officially to the public next month. Our speakers will also include a brief visit to a Vanda Farm in Thailand and the Orchid House in Queen Sirikit's Arboretum, just outside of Chang Mai in Northern Thailand..