5:30-6:30 pm Mansion and Greenhouse open for touring
6:30-7:30 pm Lecture

About the Speaker

Arthur E. Chadwick founded the Chadwick & Son Orchids Inc in 1989 with his father who has been growing orchids since 1943. Their book,The Classic Cattleyas is widely considered to be the definitive book on large flowered Cattleya species. Martha Stewart favorably reviewed the book and had both Chadwicks on her TV Show.

Art has the distinction of naming Cattleya hybrids after the wives of the last four U.S. Presidents and personally presenting the flowers to the honored recipients. He speaks internationally, most recently at the Western Australian Orchid Conference and the World Orchid Conference in France. Each month since 2002, the Richmond Times Dispatch publishes Art’s orchid advice column. The Winston-Salem Journal now also runs the popular column.