Tuesday, February 19, 2019
OSMT Meeting at Cheekwood
7 pm Presentation: Rick Lockwood on Paphiopedilum Species
Location: Cheekwood Botanical Gardens – directions, 1200 Forrest Park Drive Nashville Tennessee 37205
Rick Lockwood
OSMT society member Rick Lockwood is speaking on Paphiopedilum species this meeting, and will include highlights from several species that he has completed full “life cycle” growth. Blooming-pollination- seed production- germination- getting seedlings back from flasking- raising seedlings to blooming.
About Rick Lockwood
Rick started his interest in biology not too long after he could walk. Catching anything small enough to put into bottles for up close study, and getting his reptile books confiscated by his 1st grade teacher. In his earlier years his interest were primarily in poikilotherms (fish, amphibians, and reptiles), but by college he was introduced to orchids and left time to study the interesting pollination behavior of our favorite plants.
Rick’s first professional biology gigs were with poikilitherms, and now he is an aquatic toxicologist for Ramboll (an environmental consultancy). In 2001 his wife, Robin, sensing he needed a new productive hobby, purchased a hybrid Phal and a book with a picture of Paphiopedilum sukhakulii on the cover. Rick became a member of OSMT in 2002. Rick still has that first Valentines Day Phal, but his collection now includes over 350 adult plants specializing in species of Paphiopedilum, Phragmipedium, Bulbophyllum, and Phalaenopsis.