Audrey has been growing cymbidiums since 1992.
She purchased her first sepal / ventral peloric cymbidium in 1997 from Orchids for Everyone, a chance seedling that had mutated as a partial labeloid, sepal/ ventral peloric cymbidium. The hybrid was registered by R.J. Dean of Australia, as Cym. Cleo's Melody, and the specific cultivar was named 'Freakout'. From the acquisition of this first plant, Audrey's passion grew to wanting to learn everything about the hybridization with this cultivar, and similar sepal or ventral partial labelloid cymbidiums.
Audrey Young-Tarter lectures on her favorite subjects - "Peloric Cymbidium Orchids". She provides a 60-minute slideshow presentation on this subject. She also can provide an orchid talk about "Back Yard Orchid Growing" and "The Rod McLellan Acres of Orchids".
