Carol Klonowski: Winter Care of Deciduous Dendrobiums 

Carol Klonowski has been growing orchids since the 1980’s when a friend in Berkeley, California, gave her a cattleya orchid and it bloomed out with three big, dark lavender flowers and an intoxicating fragrance. She built an entire greenhouse in her backyard to accommodate the precious plant, which only led her to buy more orchids. Then another friend gave her a gift membership to the Orchid Society of California, and it’s been a serious hobby ever since.

Carol has served as Director, Vice President, and President of the Orchid Society of California for most of the past two decades, serving as President while the society is rebuilding after Covid, and is currently a Fully Accredited Judge with the American Orchid Society in the California Sierra Nevada Judging Center.