About Links

Hillsview Gardens offers the following links to pages we find of value to the orchid enthusiast. The views and ideas of other web sites are beyond the control of Hillsview Gardens. These links are offered only as a suggestion for learning about orchid cultivation, periodicals, books and references.

Hillsview Gardens Favorite Sites

The Orchid Mall - One of the best places to surf the web for Orchid related sites. ~ http://www.orchidmall.com
Slipper Talk - An orchid forum for Slipper Orchids. ~ http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/index.php
The Slipper Orchid Forum - Orchid forum for slippers. ~ http://www.slipperorchidforum.com/forum/index.php
Paphs.net - Lots of links to the Paphiopedilum community ~ http://www.paphs.net
The Pleurothallid Alliance ~ http://www.pleurothallids.com/The_Pleurothallid_Alliance.htm
The International Slipper Symposium ~ http://www.slippersymposium.com
The Orchid Source Forum ~ http://forum.theorchidsource.com

Orchid Societies in Oregon

Central Coast Orchid Society, Meets second Thursday of the month at 7:00 pm, First Presbyterian Church, 227 NE 12th Street, Newport, OR 97365

Cherry City Orchid Society, Meets second Wednesday of the month, except July, at 7:00 pm, Capitol Manner Retirement Center, 1995 Dallas Hwy NW (Hwy 22), Salem, OR 97304

Mary’s Peak Orchid Society, Meets first Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm, Church of the Good Samaritan, 333 NW 35st at Harrison Blvd, Corvallis, OR 97330

Oregon Orchid Society, Meets third Tuesday of the month at 7:15 pm; beginners program at 6:45, Multnomah Art Center, 7688 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR 97219 ~ http://www.oregonorchidsociety.org

Pacific Orchid Society, Meets first Wednesday of the month at 7:00 pm, North Bend Housing Authority, 1700 Monroe, North Bend, OR 97459

Portland Orchid Society, Meets the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm, St. Luke Lutheran Church
6835 SW 46th Ave. Portland, OR 97219 ~ http://www.portlandorchidsociety.org

Rogue Valley Orchid Society, Meets 2nd Thursday of the month at 7:30 pm, Anna Maria Creekside, 822 Golf View Drive, Medford, OR 97504

Sunset Empire Orchid Society, Meets second Sunday of the month at 2:00 pm, Columbia Memorial Hospital Conference Room, 2111 Exchange Street, Astoria, OR 97103

Umpqua Orchid Society, Meets second Thursday of the month at 7:00pm, Umpqua Valley Arts Center, 1624 Harvard Ave., Roseburg, OR 97470

West Valley Orchid Society, Meets 1st Monday of each month at 7:30 pm, 1St Federal Savings Community Room, 118 NE Third Street, McMinnville, OR 97128

Willamette Valley Orchid Society, Meets third Wednesday of the month at 7:30 pm-get there early, doors are locked at 7:30!, Odd Fellows Building, 1233 Charnelton St., Eugene, OR 97401

Periodicals

Orchids Magazine - The magazine of the American Orchid Society ~ http://magazine-directory.com/Orchids.htm
Orchid Digest - A publication devoted to orchid growing enthusiasts ~ http://www.orchiddigest.com

Publications

A Masdevallia Cultural Guide - William Ames Rhodehamel
A Treasure of Masdevallia - Carlyle A. Luer
All About Growing Orchids - Ortho Books
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids - Alex Hawkes
Genus Paphiopedilum Albino Forms – Gruss, Olaf
Home Orchid Growing - Rebecca Tyson Northen
Masdevallias; Gems of the Orchid World - Mary E. Gerritsen and Ron Parsons
Miniature Orchids - Rebecca Tyson Northen
Native Colombian Orchids - Colombian Orchid Society
Native Ecuadorian Orchids - Calaway H. Dodson, Rodrigo Escobar R.
Orchids of Venezuela - Dunsterville and Garay
The Genus Paphiopedilum – P. J. Cribb
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids - Alec Pridgeon
The Manual of Cultivated Orchid Species - Bechtel, Cribb and Launert
The Paphiopedilum Growers Manual - Revised-Second Edition
Thesaurus Dracularum - Carlyle A. Luer
Thesaurus Masdevalliarum - Carlyle A. Luer, Königer, Helga
Tropical Slipper Orchids: Paphiopedilum and Phragmipedium Species and Hybrids - By Harold Koopowitz