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TUESDAY 12/20/2011 UPDATE
SHIPPING UPDATE --- USPS Priority is NOT RELIABLE. Shipments that used to take 3 days for out-of-State addresses is now taking 7 - 11 days or more and in-State USPS Priority shipments used to take 1 day and it is NOW taking over 3 - over 10 days. There is NO TRACKING that appears on their website even though Signature Confirmation which is an added cost used to display some tracking information. There is no excuse for this!! FedEx claims guaranteed delivery PLUS full tracking --- we are now recommending FedEx but we will ship according to our customer's wishes. We have been using FedEx Home Delivery but the shipement must be made to a residence and we have to drop off the box at FedEx because they do not pick up same day.
PINE RIDGE SANCTUARY - 2012 Florida Land Stewards Of The Year --- Pine Ridge Sanctuary, our  globally endangered Pine Rockland ecosystem, has been awarded the 2012Forest Land Stewards Of The Year award by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FLFWCC), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), University of Florida - Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), Tall timbers.ORG, US Forest Service - Department of Agriculture (USFS), Florida Department of Agriculture - Florida Forest Service (FFS), Wildlife Federation of Florida, and other partmers. We will be on the cover and featured on their 2012 Florida Wildlife Habitat Management calendar. Pine Ridge Sanctuary also won this prestigious award in 1997. Pine Ridge Sanctuary will host a property tour on Thursday 1/19/2012 from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM. If you would like to join us, please register at http://fsp-tour011912.eventbrite.com/ . Lunch and materials are included for the $10 registration fee.
PINE RIDGE SANCTUARY - NOMINATION BY LAND ACQUISITION SELECTION COMMITTEE FOR EEL PURCHASE --- Pine Ridge Sanctuary, our globally endangered Pine Rockland ecosystem, has gone through the lengthy process of certification, inspections for determination of future maintenance requirements, and a tour of the property by the Land Acquisition Selection Committee (LASC) for the Environmentally Endangered Lands Program (EEL) in preparation for inclusion on the A-List for possible future acquisition by Miami-Dade County. In 1990, voters approved a 2 year property tax increase to fund the acquisition, protection, and maintenance of environmentally endangered lands. To date, the EEL Program and its partners have acquired over 18,350 acres of EELs into Public Ownership. The lands include 631 acres of Pine Rockland, 272 acres of Tropical Hardwood Hammock, 16,809 acres of Freshwater Wetlands, 620 acres of Coastal Wetlands, and 19 acres of Scrub Habitat. The LASC toured Pine Ridge Sanctuary and held a Public Meeting and approved our property to the Board of County Commissioners for purchase stating the Pine Ridge Sanctuary has the highest bio-diversity as any piece of the globally endangered Pine Rockland and is the benchmark standard that is used by the County for every other Pine Rockland comparison.
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A SHORT MOVIE ABOUT BREEDING ORCHIDS --- I have just added a short 21 MB movie that Jennifer Brown ("Pine Rockland Composition" movie producer) made while she was shooting the movie about our globally endangered Rock Pineland. Hope you enjoy.
PINE ROCKLAND COMPOSITION - a film by Jennifer Brown featuring Pine Ridge Sanctuary - 4/2010 --- This is a 30 minute film (m4v 212 MB file) made by Jennifer Brown as part of her MFA in Science And Natural History Filmmaking at Montana State University. It has taken Jennifer 2 years to produce this film all about the endangered Pine Rockland ecosystem and the way it interacts with residents and researchers in South Florida. The movie can be viewed using iTunes or QuickTime Player. This is a large file and may require some time to download on your computer depending upon the browser you use - Opera starts to run almost immediately, but IE requires some extra time. The film can also be viewed from the Pine Rockland Research page. Jennifer added a link page-( http://vimeo.com/20180761 - that may load quicker. I do not know how long that page may be active.
"Pine Rockland Composition" movie featuring interviews with Terry and Barbara on PBS --- airing dates and times are for WPBT PBS TV 2 = 4/20/2011 @ 3:00 AM / 4/21/2011 @ 11:30 PM / 4/24/2011 @ 6:00 PM / 4/29/2011 @ 7:30 PM. The film by Jennifer Brown about the globally endangered Pine Rockland ecosystem is being shown on local PBS station. I do not know if the film will air on other PBS stations elsewhere.
UNEXPLOITED PINE ROCKLANDS OF SOUTH ANDROS --- go to our Pine Rockland Habitat Research page to view this short video by John Lloyd and Gary Slater of the Ecostudies Institute. This unexploited Pine Rockland is probably the closest ecosystem to our Pine Ridge Sanctuary.
PHALAENOPSIS VIOLACEA & SAMERA ARE BLOOKING --- I have taken a photo of some of the violacea crosses made by HP Norton that are blooming right now. The plants on the left are violaceas that are the sought after blue/indigo color and the plants in the center along the back are Samera (= bellina X violacea) and those are all exhibiting a touch of blue to their coloration.
CATASETINAE ARE IN FULL BLOOM AND fDK. aFTER dARK ARE STARTING TO SPIKE --- Every step you take in the greenhouse surprises you with a different sweet and spicy fragrance. Colors abound. I've seen more and more of the Catasetinae bloom this season followed by multiple reblooming off of the same pseudobulb. The complex is facinating.
CIRROPETALUM DIVISIONS --- I have a very limited number of the following Cirropetalums for sale. The first is Cirr. Daisy Chain; the second photo is Cirr. Elizabeth Ann 'Buckleberry' FCC/AOS; the third photo is Cirr. vaginatum. I have several others, but they have not bloomed yet so I do not have photos. I will post those as the plants bloom. The plants are potted in 3 1/4" square pots @ $25.00 each.
  
PINE ROCKLAND WORKING GROUP WORKSHOP FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS ---   
  
On Sat 5/8/2010, the Institute For Regional Conservation presented a day long Landowner's Workshop at Castello Hammock (22301 SW 162nd Avenue). Everything was discussed from "What Is A Pine Rockland" to "Identifying Characteristic Plants" to "Grant and Covenant Opportunities" (this one is by me) to hands-on practice of herbicide treatment for exotic plant pests. The Workshop was followed by a tour of the Avery Pine Rockland that IRC prescribed burned last June (Barbara & I we in the burn crew as spotters).
BARBARA IS BACK FROM CUBA - Dr. C. Marcos Pedro Ramos Rodríguez of the
Centro de Estudios Forestales,
Facultad de Forestal y Agronomía,
Universidad de Pinar del Río is the Chairperson of the 2010 Simposio Internacional sobre Manejo Sostenible de los Recursos Forestales (SIMFOR2010). Barbara obtained permission from the State Department and received a Cuban Visa to attend the two week scientific Symposium on the closest ecosystem to our Pine Rockland (Pine Ridge Sanctuary). I will be posting photographs that she took during the Conference and the field trips she has gone on. should be interesting! The
Centro de Estudios Forestales,
Facultad de Forestal y Agronomía,
Universidad de Pinar del Río will be presenting a large Forestry Conference in 2012 and Barbara and I may be attending to give a lecture on our restoration and prescribed burning experiences.
PRICE REDUCTIONS ---- Barbara and I have decided to continue our deepest discount WHOLESALE prices to ALL of our customers. You can open or download out pricelist from the link directly to the left ( Current Pricelist ). I have also added the Fdk. After Dark remake seedlings that are nicely established in 3.25" pots - now almost 2 years out of flask at $45.
PAPHIOPEDILUM HARD COVER PHOTO / RESEARCH BOOK ----  "Paphiopedilum In Taiwaniv" is a fabulous hardcover book with over 250 pages of full color photos of the newest Paph species and hybrids published in 2006. We have several copis for sale @ $45 not including postage. This is an excellent reference book or just a really nice picture book.
CATASETINAE - The Catasetinae have been dormant and resting the last 2months and are showing signs here and there of new growth. By the end of March, we should be seeing growth all over the benches. Pretty soon, the Catasetinae will be blooming. The first ones to bloom will be the Early morning the greenhouse will be filled with their spicy floral perfume - every morning seems to have different smells every step you take. This is THE MOST CRITICAL TIME OF YEAR for the Catasetinae. DO NOT FERTILIZE AND DO NOT WATER the plants until you see active root growth coming from the new growths - even if you see inflorescences starting on the leafless pseudobulbs. It is easy to differentiate new growth (more oval in cross section and the tip will be open) from an inflorescence (rounder cross section and the tip will be pointed). Resume fertilizing and watering as the new growths get maybe 4" tall with new roots showing. This is a good time of year to repot and stake the old pseudobulbs upright.
PHALAENOPSIS - It is in the middle of summer down here and it is really HOT. The Phals are starting to spike but it is still too early for good budding and flowering. We will be offering cut Phalaenopsis flower spikes for sale which we cut off of plants that are either in full bloom with no buds left or the plants are too young for sale. The cost is $3 per inflorescence - our pick of colors OR $4 per spike if our customer specifies a certain color range. We generally try to repot the Phals as the flower spikes are cut off closer to April / May, but repotting goes on all year. Some of the plants have produced keikis either next to the Mother plant or on the inflorescence - I will keep those "extra" plants attached to the old inflorescences as bonuses.
MULTI-FLORAL PAPHIOPEDILUM - The multi-floral and (Brachy X Complex) Paphs are spiking and coming into flower. I've been growing Paphs for over 35 years now and I still do not know what initiates the flower spikes other than the plant maturing their growths. Multi-floral paphs in particular have to have one mature growth with a start to be blooming size. This season I have seen a nice quantity of very strong inflorescences and a lot of the (Brachy X Complex) plants are blooming --- maybe has something to do with using fish / seaweed organic fertilizer??
TEA - I am now selling some of Barbara and my favorite teas along with delicious Green Tea nutritional bars and tea bags for cold tea. These teashave been some of our highly prized teas that we serve gung fu style when we have had special visitors. Please take a look.
- - Barbara and I are now offering GUNG FU tea instructions and demonstrations --- Barbara and I will come to your home or office with tea wares, water, and all our accessories to serve 4 different premium teas. This gung fu style tea involves small sized tea pots and will show you how enjoyable Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese tea can be while teaching you in your own environment. The demonstrations will take 2 - 3 hours and are limited to 6 people maximum in size for a one-on-one experience. For details, please see the popup photos on our Teas For Sale page.
- - Tea article Fairchild Tropical Gardens "The Tropical Garden - 3/2010 - several articles written about Chinese and Taiwanes teas by Jeff Wasielewski after he interviewed Barbara and me before the Chocolate, Tea, and Coffee Festival last January.
PINE RIDGE SANCTUARY - our globally endangered Rock Pineland ecosytem was recently awarded Recertification as a Forest Stewardship. On 12/21/2008, Georgia Tasker of the Miami Herald newspaper ran a two page article ( p1 link and p2 link ) on us and I have included that in our website under the Pine Rockland section "Habitat Reasearch." Our Pine Ridge Sanctuary Pine Rockland was noted as the most aesthetically and scientificaly valuable pine flatwoods in the entire State of Florida. I have also previewed Jennifer Brown's doctoral movie that she is producing on the Pine Rocklands of South Florida in which we are featured. I will be adding both a shortened and the full length movie to my website as soon as the movie is complete. The movie will be presented at the upcoming Pine Rockland Working Group Conference 2/10/2010 - 2/13/2010 which will be held at Fairchild Tropical Gardens in Miami. The Natural Areas Inventory has received a grant to inventory the rare, threatened, and endangered plants in Florida. They are surveying 5 different ecosystem properties and our Pine Ridge Sanctuary has been selected as the only Pine Rockland property because of our extensive and unique biodiversity.
BLOG - Barbara and I have also started a Blog that will show photos and have short writeups on what we are currently doing at Pine Ridge Orchids -- ( PRO BLOG ). Recently, I have been too busy to post anything - please be patient because I have taken photos. I am posting new photos and writing new posts as time permits. I will be posting items like how I mix our media; how I repot the various orchids; R&R a couple of our irrigation pumps; and Barb will post photos on her work around the lily pond and in the Pine Rockland ecosystem. I was thinking of future postings like installing and finishing up the watering stations in our Rock Pineland to attract quail, foxes, snakes, raptors, and cougars to the water features in our arid ecosystem and the repairs to our "artificial tree" steel columns so that we can once again raise the stands for our bird houses and bat houses. I also have to repair the woodpecker damage to our bat houses and I will attempt to take photos of that procedure (as long as it works the way I am planning???).
For our foreign customers: as of 1/2009 I'm afraid I am limiting our exports. The Agricultural requirements for Export out of the US and Import into certain countries has become so prohibitive concerning regulations, permit requirements, and costs, along with credit card fraud that I am contemplating stopping all exports at this time.
We hope you enjoy all the hard work we have undergone to provide you with new photos, new information on our globally endangered ecosystem, and our section on teas that we enjoy. We welcome any feedback you can provide to us about what you think and how you can view the website pages.
Thank You very much --- Terry and Barbara Glancy
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