19th WOC Miami, USA 2008
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13th World Orchid Conference
September 1990
Auckland, New Zealand
Grand Champion Orchid – Cymbidium Gladys Whitesell
The kiwis hosted a truly beautiful 13th World Orchid Conference with the opening ceremony graced by the beauty and voice of the famous soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Auckland, the city of sails was a truly remarkable backdrop for this worthy event. Despite the strict plant import quarantine restrictions the show was a colourful spectacle with many home grown Cymbidiums.
14th World Orchid Conference
April 1993
Glasgow, Scotland
Grand Champion Orchid – Paphiopedilum rothschildianum ‘ Mont Millais’ FCC/RHS/AOS Eric Young Orchid Foundation
With a wee dram, the sound of bagpipes, and many Charles Rennie Macintosh inspired exhibits, this was a remarkable World Orchid Conference. South African Disa meristems were on sale for the first time.
15th World Orchid Conference
September 1996
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Grand Champion Orchid – Cattleya nobilor ‘Matalia’ Bio Orchids
Reserve Grand Champion Orchid Vascostylis Cynthia Alonso ‘Sapphire’ AM/AOS RF Orchids
With the feel of the carnival spirit this conference was set to rival them all with Cattleya species and more Cattleya species than ever before.
16th World Orchid Conference
April 1999
Vancouver, Canada
This was the first World Orchid conference that marked the grand entrance of the Taiwanese growers to the orchid stage and in doing so won the Grand Champion plant on show.
17th World Orchid Conference
April 2002
Shah Alam, Malaysia
Grand Champion Orchid – Paphiopedilum rothschildianum ‘Giant Wings’
Reserve Grand Champion Orchid – Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis
Best Exhibit – Singapore Botanic Gardens
The 17th World orchid Conference was a truly spectacular event with many unusual species being shown for the first time.
18th World Orchid Conference
March 2005
Dijon, France
Held in conjunction with Florissimo, a grand flower show was produced. Delicious French food was paired with equally as good wines from the region.
19th World Orchid Conference
January 2008
Miami, USA
For the very first time a World Orchid Conference had returned to the same city. Miami had previously hosted the World Orchid Conference in 1984. This time it was bigger and better and competition was tough with more exhibitors than ever before. It sure was fiesta style but the local fruity wines were not any competition for the French! The conference was magnificent, the lectures absorbing, and the after parties a truly fun filled week.
20th World Orchid Conference
November 2011
Singapore
With the back drop of the huge metal tree forest festooned with Phalaenopsis and the new ‘Gardens on the Bay’ opened for this grand event, the 20th World Orchid Conference was more spectacular than any other. The event billowed with cut flowers from Asia.
22nd World Orchid Conference
November 2017
Guayaquil, Ecuador
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