Welcome to 
The Baton Rouge Orchid Society

Do you have an interest in orchids?

Do you live in or around the Baton Rouge area?

The Baton Rouge Orchid Society is very excited to see such a growing interest in orchid care and culture.  Whether you’re a first time orchid owner, a seasoned collector, or even hybridizer there is something for you in our society. Our members are all orchid lovers dedicated to the preservation of orchids and the education others. 

Please join us at one of our upcoming meetings.

Please join us for our May meeting 
(Wednesday May 16th 2012  7:00pm - 9:00pm)

Speaker - Dr. Raghuwinder Singh (Nick) 

Nick was born in Punjab, India. He received his B.S. in agriculture with honors in plant protection from Punjab Agricultural University, Punjab, India in 1999. He then moved to the United Kingdom to attend the University of Reading, from which he received his M.S. in crop protection in 2001. In 2004, he received a Doctor of Plant Medicine degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville. He joined the University of Florida’s Department of Entomolo-gy and Nematology as a post doctoral associate in 2005 and worked on citrus leaf miner, citrus aphids, the aphid parasitoid, Lipolexis oregmae, the citrus psyllid and citrus greening. He moved to Baton Rouge in 2007 to work for the LSU AgCenter. His area of expertise includes use of con-ventional and molecular diagnostic methods to diagnose and identify causes of plant health prob-lems. He now runs the LSU AgCenter Plant Diagnostic Center and responsible for diagnosing plant health problems submitted by county extension agents and residents of Louisiana.