I have sent everyone an email alerting you to this news, but thought I should post a message here in the forum as well. This is actually pretty exciting for our community. Alex Maximiano from OrchidWiz.com contacted
me a couple of weeks ago and negotiated an offer for our community which I could not refuse. He is offering our members and friends a 30% discount on a new purchase of OrchidWiz Encyclopedia 5.02. This is the December 2008 version, the latest available.

To get the discount, visit the OrchidWiz website and enter promotion code “ORCHIDTALK” during your checkout which discounts the price (- $77.70 off the normal price of $259.00) to $181.30. This promotion is an OrchidTalk exclusive and the lowest price available anywhere at this time.
Shipping adds $5 U.S., $7.50 Canada , $11 other countries.

This is a limited time offer good from December 31 [Eastern Standard Time] through January 7, 2009 [E.S.T.]. For each purchase made using the "ORCHIDTALK" code, Alex has agreed to donate a part of the sale back to the OrchidTalk forum!

If you have been thinking about purchasing this amazing software, now is the time. OrchidWiz not only gives you the world's most comprehensive resource for information on orchids, buying the software at a 30% discount by using the "ORCHIDTALK" promotion code benefits our forum community. Tell your family, friends, & orchid society about this great offer: spread the word!

"OrchidWiz Encyclopedia contains genealogy charts and detailed information on 136,000 hybrids and more than 26,000 species; over 30,000 digital photos; thousands of habitat temperature, precipitation and sunlight charts; and thousands of seasonal blooming charts. The data is used by hundreds of experts worldwide at organizations such as U.S. Fish and Wildlife, Selby Gardens, the Smithsonian Greenhouse, the Australian Orchid Foundation, Singapore Botanical Gardens , etc. More than 400 orchid judges use OrchidWiz at regular gatherings to evaluate and award orchids."


“OrchidWiz is so easy to use, anyone can do it. If you can learn how to use a computer mouse, you can learn OrchidWiz." The program runs on Microsoft Windows Vista or XP (Mac users need Parallels) and requires 2 GB of disk space. OrchidWiz is licensed to a single user but can be installed on two computers, such as a desktop and a laptop for mobility purposes. Join the thousands of users in 45 countries who use OrchidWiz Encyclopedia for their daily research needs!

I have had a copy of this software for about two years now. Diane sent me one as a gift and since then I have renewed and purchased the updates. It really is very handy.

Post your questions here and let me know if you get the software using this promotion. Good growing!

Cheers,
BD