Welcome back! We are thrilled to welcome our guest speaker Art Chadwick of Chadwick and Sons, Virginia.
TOPIC: Classic Cattleyas
**Art will be bringing several copies of his book, “The Classic Cattleyas”**
Welcome Back. We hope you had a wonderful summer.
Doors open at 11:00 with a brief business meeting starting at 11:15 pm.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Biography of Arthur E Chadwick
Art holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State and an MBA from James Madison University. He founded Chadwick & Son Orchids Inc in 1989 with his father who had been growing orchids since 1943.
The Chadwick’s first book, The Classic Cattleyas, was released in 2006 and sold out. An updated second edition was released in 2022. Martha Stewart favorably reviewed the book and had both Chadwick’s on her TV Show. A sequel book, First Ladies and their Orchids: A Century of Namesake Cattleyas, was released in the summer of 2024. For twenty years, Art wrote a monthly orchid advice column that was carried by newspapers around the country
The Chadwick’s have the distinction of naming Cattleya hybrids after the wives of the six most recent U.S. Presidents and personally presenting the flowers to most of the honored recipients.
Art is a 'regular' on the orchid society speaker's circuit and has spoken at three World Orchid Conferences - France 2005, Ecuador 2017 and Germany last month.
Chadwick’s has had two high profile orchid exhibits in the past year: The 2025 Chelsea Flower Show in London which won a silver-gilt medal from the Royal Horticultural Society and visit from Queen Camilla as well as the 2026 Philadelphia Flower Show which won best artistic design, best educational, #1 must see exhibit and a visit from Martha Stewart.
Chadwick’s operates 13 greenhouses in rural Powhatan County, two retail stores in Richmond, and boards over 13,000 orchids for local clients. The company was recently featured in Southern Living magazine, The New York Times, Bloomberg News, Smithsonian magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, The Washington Post, The CBS Evening News, and Oprah magazine.