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Plant and Description |
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Vanda cristata 'Lydia Merkle' Am/Aos, Ccm/Aos - Our Vanda (Trudelia) cristata received an 85 point Award of Merit and an 84 point Certificate of Cultural Merit at the Smokey Mountain Orchid Show, Knoxville, Tennessee, on April 16th, 2005. |
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Promenaea Meadow Gold 'Lydia Merkle' Am/Aos, Ccm/Aos - Our Promenaea Meadow Gold (xanthina x Limelight) received an 83 point Award of Merit and an 85 point Certificate of Cultural Merit at the Nashville Orchid Show, Nashville, Tennessee, on May 1st, 2005. |
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Cattleya Brabantiae 'Lydia Merkle' Am/Aos - Award of Merit of 85 points, spring of 2002. The plant held six flowers on one stem, a very high flower count for the hybrid. |
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Blc. Cherry Suisse 'Lydia Merkle' Am/Aos. Spring 1996. This plant was our first AOS award. The flowers are thick and waxy, with the most incredible fragrance of a Tropicana rose. |
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Zygocolax Betsy Crowell 'Lydia Merkle' Am/Aos |
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Dtps. Dung Nguyen 'Tennessee Pride' Am/Aos. Awarded May 2001. |
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Phal. Jori Moore 'Maplewood' Hcc/Aos, AQ/Aos. =(Kuntrarti Rarashati x Zuma's Pixie) Awarded at the first showing of our hybrid, and the entire hybrid received the Award of Quality. |
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Phal. Jori Moore 'Ma Petit Chau' Hcc/Aos =(Kuntrarti Rarashati x Zuma's Pixie) |
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Paphiopedilum Lynleigh Koopowitz 'Ed Merkle' Hcc/Aos. Awarded spring 2000. Usually 2 raspberry fragranced flowers per stem. This plant was awarded after spending six weeks on my desk at work! |
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Doritis pulcherrima 'Ed Merkle' Hcc/Aos. Awarded spring 2000. Unusual white striping in the lip. |
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Phragmipedium Calurum 'Lydia Merkle' Am/Aos. Awarded in 1999. Flowers are over 4" across, very large for the hybrid (longifolium x Sedenii) |
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Doritaenopsis
Pico Lady Ruby 'Ed Merkle' Am/Aos, AQ/AOS = (Phal Kuntrarti Rarashati x Doritis pulcherrima) Seven of our plants received the Award of Merit. In addition, we know of four others, which we sold to others, which also received Am/Aos. |
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Doritaenopsis Tennessee Cardinal 'Maplewood' Am/Aos. =(Inferno x Blessed) This plant received its Award of Merit in April 2003. |
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Catasetum Susan Fuchs 'Sunrise' Jc/Aos. Awarded May 2003. |
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Slc. Seagull's Mini-Cat Heaven 'Mary Ann' Am/Aos. Awarded an 82 pt Award of Merit at the March 2004 Heart of Dixie show, Huntsville, Alabama, with 20 flowers and 6 buds. |
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Gongora Parakeet 'Maplewood' Am/Aos. Awarded an 83 pt. Award of Merit for a primary hybrid of (fulva x horchiana) with over 250 flowers. May 2004 at the Memphis Orchid Society show. |
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Gongora galeottiana 'Merkle's Orchids' Chm/Aos. Awarded the Certificate of Horticultural Merit at the Mid-America Congress and Show, Nashville, Tennessee, September 2004. |
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Rumrillara Sugar Baby 'Maplewood' Am/Aos. Awarded an 82 pt. Award of Merit at the Mid-America Congress and Show, Nashville, Tennessee, September 2004. This is a hybrid of Neostylis Lou Sneary x Ascocentrum miniatum. |
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Epilaeliocattleya Volcano Trick 'Maplewood' Am/Aos. Awarded an 82 pt. Award of Merit at the Alabama Orchid Society Show, Birmingham, Alabama, September 2004. This is a hybrid of Lc. Trick or Treat x Epi. stanfordianum. |