Laguna Horticulture, Heritage, & Culinary Tour – May 2,2009

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Laguna is endowed with abundant natural resources. Its forests are filled with bamboo, rattan, and soft hardwood. Its wide fields and vast forests are ideal for growing rice, coconuts, vegetables, tropical fruits, orchids, and other ornamental flowers and exotic plants. The province is also rich in mineral resources such as clay, jasper and basalt glass.

Tour itinerary:

Petty John Pottery – Pansol , Laguna

This pottery factory is unique in Southern Luzon, It creative designs and award winning potteries earned its distinction worldwide as being innovative. Jon Petty lives and works together with his wife (artist potter Tessy) in Laguna. He has spent many years in the Philippines experimenting with, learning about and sometimes teaching pottery. Jon is of Phil-American descent. He has learned his craft in Barcelona, Spain, where he started out as an apprentice at a small studio. His work is almost "one of a kind" or extremely limited editions. Jon makes traditional functional pottery.

Note: A short demonstration on traditional pottery will be conducted during the tour


Botanical Garden- Los Baños, Laguna

This botanical reserve had been developed by the Americans, Home to the majestic Medinillas or locally known as Kapa-kapa this plant is marveled worldwide on its magnificent floral bracts the forest garden is home to various Philippine hardwood trees such as kamagong, molave, guijo, ipil, bitaog, mahogany, and narra; flowering trees such as caballero, saracca, Palawan cherry, ilang ilang, and white santan and mussaendas .


Valesol Haven House and Farm – Los Baños , Laguna

This ancestral house of the Lazaros is one of the unique structures in the heart of UPLB, The house is made from bamboos and old Philippine hardwoods, the bamboos were specially treated in salt water that had stood the weather and tear of time. The house is over 55 years old and had been an architectural marvel in a city looming with industrialization.

This half-hectare farm is abloom with cattleyas, dendrobiums, vandas , anthuriums and other various species of colorful flowers in varying stages of growth. Its proprietor, Mr. Carlos Lazaro (President of Philippine Orchid Society and Los Baños Orchid Society) also provides lectures on orchid and anthurium propagation.
(Lunch) – Laguna specialties like Buko pie, native kakanins, pancit and delicacies will be served.




Orchid and Plant Laboratory – UPLB

See and marvel tiny plants and orchid seedlings grown from sterile media in a bottle and the adjacent greenhouse of the laboratory where rare, indigenous, endemic and endangered orchids and ornamental plants are carefully nurtured and grown in a systematic way.

Los Baños Orchid and Garden Show- UPLB Seniors Hall

If you are looking for new and hard to find plants, this is the place to go. New plant cultivars like the Red Christina, a new cultivars from Christina or Pink Eugenia, and a limited number of Mussaenda Emerlinda Roman (President of University of the Philippines ) will be on sale at the show for the first time.
Garden shows like this in Los Baños help to promote the Philippine ornamental plant Industry and inspire our local plant breeders to come up with new plant hybrids for the local and international trade through plant competitions. It is through this event that most of the Philippine plants are conserved and mass propagated, providing sustainable livelihood to thousands of plant propagators and collectors in the Calabarzon area. Filipinos are also distinguished landscape artists, and with these events, their skill in landscaping is continuously sharpened. New Philippine hoya species will also be displayed.
Tour inclusive of entrance fee to botanical garden, donation fee, UPLB garden show, lunch, merienda and lectures

Deadline for confirmation and payment: April 28, 2009

Assembly place: Manila Seedling Bank Foundation / Magallanes station 6:30am
Time: 5:00 am to 6am
Tour leaves at approximately at 6am
Estimated time of arrival: 6pm

Fees: Php 900 for members of Philippine Orchid Society
Php 1,200 for non-members

Office Address:
Unit 209 Delsa Mansion, 44 Scout Borromeo corner Scout Torrillo Streets, Barangay South Triangle, Quezon City, 1103 Philippines.


TeleFax Numbers:
+632-929-4425
+632-926-5061
+63 917-848-5468 mobile number


Contact Person: Mr. Lawrence Chan – Corporate Secretary (0919-3901671)
Email- L_rence_2003@yahoo.com
Office Staffs: Ms. Jenny Rivera and Mr. Edilberto Capague

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There is an additional inclusion of the tour

MAY 02, 2009 (SATURDAY) FIELD TRIP

Tour itinerary:

Pettyjohn Pottery – Bucal, Calamba, Laguna

This pottery factory is unique in Southern Luzon , It creative designs and award
winning potteries earned its distinction worldwide as being innovative. Jon
Petty lives and works together with his wife (artist potter Tessy) in Laguna. He
has spent many years in the Philippines experimenting with, learning about and
sometimes teaching pottery. Jon is of Phil-American descent. He has learned his
craft in Barcelona , Spain , where he started out as an apprentice at a small
studio. His work is almost "one of a kind" or extremely limited editions. Jon
makes traditional functional pottery.

Note: A short demonstration on traditional pottery will be conducted during the
tour

Ms. Dorie Bernabe's Garden

(Pansol, Laguna)Mrs. Adoracion S. Bernabe or popularly known as Ms. Dorie among
her peers in the horticultural world. Her farm cum resort style had a lot of
things to offer . Her over 30 years of collection is housed in her Pansol farm .
She is an active member and an officer of over half a dozen horticultural
societies and is considered as a bulwark in the horticultural industry. Her
award winning collections is not only known locally but also in the
international circuit. Her farm had been a favorite meeting place of various
societies and She was featured recently in one of the Philippines top rating
prime time show " Kapuso Mo Jessica Soho " aired on GMA channel 7 last January
10, 2009 " Cactus episode" .

Collection of ornamental, cactus, etc.

Botanical Garden- Los Baños, Laguna

This botanical reserve had been developed by the Americans, Home to the majestic
Medinillas or locally known as Kapa-kapa this plant is marveled worldwide on its
magnificent floral bracts the forest garden is home to various Philippine
hardwood trees such as kamagong, molave, guijo, ipil, bitaog, mahogany, and
narra; flowering trees such as caballero, saracca, Palawan cherry, ilang ilang,
and white santan and mussaendas .

Note: Please bring orchid species plant (if you have ) to donate at the
botanical garden.

Valesol Haven House and Farm – Los Baños , Laguna

This ancestral house of the Lazaros is one of the unique structures in the heart
of UPLB, The house is made from bamboos and old Philippine hardwoods, the
bamboos were specially treated in salt water that had stood the weather and tear
of time. The house is over 55 years old and had been an architectural marvel in
a city looming with industrialization.

This half-hectare farm is abloom with cattleyas, dendrobiums, vandas ,
anthuriums and other various species of colorful flowers in varying stages of
growth. Its proprietor, Mr. Carlos Lazaro (President of Philippine Orchid
Society and Los Baños Orchid Society) also provides lectures on orchid and
anthurium propagation.
(Lunch) – Laguna specialties like Buko pie, native kakanins, pancit and
delicacies will be served.

Orchid and Plant Laboratory – UPLB

See and marvel tiny plants and orchid seedlings grown from sterile media in a
bottle and the adjacent greenhouse of the laboratory where rare, indigenous,
endemic and endangered orchids and ornamental plants are carefully nurtured and
grown in a systematic way.

Los Baños Orchid and Garden Show- UPLB Seniors Hall

If you are looking for new and hard to find plants, this is the place to go. New
plant cultivars like the Red Christina, a new cultivars from Christina or Pink
Eugenia, and a limited number of Mussaenda Emerlinda Roman (President of
University of the Philippines ) will be on sale at the show for the first time.
Garden shows like this in Los Baños help to promote the Philippine ornamental
plant Industry and inspire our local plant breeders to come up with new plant
hybrids for the local and international trade through plant competitions. It is
through this event that most of the Philippine plants are conserved and mass
propagated, providing sustainable livelihood to thousands of plant propagators
and collectors in the Calabarzon area. Filipinos are also distinguished
landscape artists, and with these events, their skill in landscaping is
continuously sharpened. New Philippine hoya species will also be displayed.
Tour inclusive of entrance fee to botanical garden, donation fee, UPLB garden
show, lunch, merienda and lectures

UPLB ART CENTER ( If we have time)

Deadline for confirmation and payment: April 28, 2009

Assembly place: Manila Seedling Bank Foundation / Magallanes station 6:30am
Time: 5:00 am to 6am
Tour leaves at approximately at 6am
Estimated time of arrival: 6pm

Fees: Php 900 for members of Philippine Orchid Society
Php 1,200 for non-members

Office Address:
Unit 209 Delsa Mansion, 44 Scout Borromeo corner Scout Torrillo Streets,
Barangay South Triangle, Quezon City, 1103 Philippines.

TeleFax Numbers:
+632-929-4425
+632-926-5061
+63 917-848-5468, +63 922.895.9544 mobile number (Jenny Rivera)

Contact Person: Mr. Lawrence Chan – Corporate Secretary (0919-3901671)
Email- L_rence_2003@ yahoo.com
Office Staffs: Ms. Jenny Rivera and Mr. Edilberto Capague Time: 5:30am

Departure: 6:00 am

ETA: from Laguna – 6:00pm – 7:00pm