It is my great pleasure to congratulate Halloamey (Amey Bhide) as OrchidTalk's Member of the Month for August 2011.

The members here can always count on Amey to help with orchid identification and especially with the science behind how orchids 'work'. Just take a look at a couple of the articles he contributed to our orchid community here this year: Basic Orchid Genetics and Orchid ABCs: the Science behind flower development and pelorics.

As one member who nominated Amey put it "Bruce, the person that comes to mind for me is someone that is very knowledgable, always willing to chime in with helpful information and is very engaging at the same time. That person is Halloamey. Amey is a wealth of technical information. When a post is made that is lacking complete information you can count on Amey to fill in the blanks and to give us more to think about....!"

Thank you, Amey, for helping us achieve our mission here in this community: 'Bringing people together to grow orchids better'. Congratulations!

To learn more about our winner, read the full interview by visiting this link: Winner - Member of the Month August 2011

Cheers,
BD