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About the ODC
The Orchid Digest has delivered incredible orchid information for over 80 years! Articles take you on travels to exotic orchid habitats, include culture information to help you grow your plants to be their very best, introduce new species, provide annotated checklists of orchid genera, and even short stories! When you join the Orchid Digest (a 501(c)3), you become a member of a group dedicated to furthering orchid education and conservation.
professional grower and the general public. It is committed to continuing its long history of excellence and providing a unique publication that will be embraced by current and future readers. To that end, it publishes a quarterly magazine with a mix of topics authored by extremely qualified contributing authors, including international experts, and amazing images by top orchid photographers. The Orchid Digest publishes a year-end issue devoted to an in-depth, single, consideration of an orchid topic.
Orchid Societies are invited to become Affiliated Members of the Orchid Digest. The Orchid Digest provides webinars on different topics available to members and Affiliated Societies. The Orchid Digest Diamond Award–a glass diamond-shaped paperweight in a gift box–is available to the Affiliated Societies to give to honor a special society member. The recipients of the Diamond Awards are recognized in the Digest and on the Orchid Digest website and Facebook.
The Orchid Digest also publishes books and currently organizes two seminars each year. It sponsors the Paphiopedilum Guild focused on slipper orchids, and an annual ‘Speakers’ Day’, covering different topics.
From time to time, the Ernest Hetherington Orchid Digest Medal is given to individuals in recognition of their meritorious service to the field of orchids.
Orchid Digest Corporation ‘Diamond Award’
Honor a valuable society member with the Orchid Digest Diamond Award of Excellence!
Benefits to CVOS Membership of ODC Affiliation
- Your society will be listed on the Affiliated Societies page of the Orchid Digest website with a link to your society’s website or Facebook page.
- Orchid Digest Diamond Award, is available for purchase, to annually honor one of your members for service and dedication to your society.
- The Orchid Digest Show Trophy, is available for purchase, for any Orchid Digest Affiliated Society sanctioned show.
- Webinars by noted speakers are available at no cost to use as a program at your society meeting.
- Programs online with speakers.
- Distinguished Speaker Lecture Day at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
- The Paphiopedilum Guild Annual Meeting
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