Our speaker for September will be Tom Perlite, owner of Golden Gate Orchids. He has been growing orchids for over 30 years and is recognized both nationally and internationally for his excellent culture, outstanding hybrids and in depth knowledge. He received a degree in Botany from UC Berkeley, and then joined the Rod McLellan Company where he worked for a number of years. He started Golden Gate Orchids, a wholesale orchid nursery with greenhouses in San Francisco and Berkeley, in 1991.

Dr. Pulley has been raising orchids for over 34 years now. It all started when his wife gave him a cattleya for his birthday on April 1st, 1974, and he gave her another three weeks later. Because of the Armacost & Royston moving sale, he had over 100 orchids by that August.