Member Profile
Our member, Sharon, grows orchids a little differently from other members.
She grows them outside under pergolas!
Most growers use enclosed shadehouses.
Why does Sharon do this? Because it works!
And it creates a seamless garden experience.
Her garden of about 300 orchids is a special garden where orchids are attached, hanging and sitting under partial protection from the Brisbane sunshine.
Growing orchids differently
Sharon's orchids are thriving! Sharon does a daily hand watering in warm weather and of course she provides her orchids with liquid fertiliser once a week.
Northlakes Guide, a local magazine, has profiled Sharon in their latest September 2026 edition! Read about it HERE!
Pine Rivers Orchid Society NEWS
Latest Award - May 2026
- Our member, Mick Green, won his first award recently for this plant Bulbophyllum grandiflorum!
- He benched this plant at the April 2026 Monthly Meeting and it was found to qualify for an award.
- Dave Hanlon, North Moreton Qld Registrar and orchid judge, presented Mick with his certificate at our May 2026 Monthly Meeting.
- Congratulations Mick!
Bulbophyllum grandflorum
Here is Mick's winning plant - benched at the Pine Rivers April 26 Monthly Meeting.
The Award Certificate
The Award Certificate
Mick Green won a Certificate of Cultural Commendation 76.7 points
Congratulations Lionel!
Pine Rivers Orchid Society member Lionel Kirby was presented with two Awards by North Moreton Registrar Dave Hanlon on 17 February, 2026.
1. Certificate of Cultural Commendation
2. Cultural Orchid of the Year 2025 (North Moreton)
These awards are both for Lionel's orchid Dendrobium Hawaiian Princess ' Goma'.
our members win awards!
Awards for Graham and Cheryl!
At Pine Rivers Orchid Society’s May 2025 Meeting, well known Brisbane northside orchid growers, Graham and Cheryl Round, were presented with their recent Awards by North Moreton orchid judge, Robert Reitano.
Their orchid, Dendrobium tangerinum 'Jacob', a species Dendrobium orchid native to Papua New Guinea, won an HCC/CCC – NMQOC, HCC/CCC – ANOS Kabi at the Aspley Orchid Society May 2025 Show. These letters mean the plant won a Highly Commended Certificate and a Certificate of Cultural Commendation.
The plant was awarded by both ANOS Kabi and North Moreton Qld Orchid Council.
The plant also won Champion of Show, Champion Specimen and Champion Species!
Update: This plant has also won the prestigious Hermon Slade trophy!
An announcement was made in the ANOS The Orchadian publication in March 2026.
Congratulations to Cheryl and Graham!
The winning plant
The plant above is Dendrobium tangerinum 'Jacob' as benched at the ANOS August 2025 Show