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Dr. Harold Koopowitz, Tustin, Orange County, California

Autumn DaffodilsDr. Harold Koopowitz

Dr. Harold Koopowitz grew up in South Africa where he attended university, majoring in both Botany and Zoology. He then completed a doctorate at UCLA in California in 1968. A professor at the University of California at Irvine since graduating, he was also the Director of the UCI Arboretum for twenty years. He is now Professor Emeritus of Biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCI, where he did research on conservation and ecology. He has travelled extensively in Portugal, Spain and Morocco to look at autumn flowering narcissus. He has also travelled widely in Africa and South America to do research on orchids.

Harold is President of the American Daffodil Society. He gardens in Tustin, Orange County, California and is well known internationally for breeding both Slipper Orchids and Miniature Daffodils. He is Editor Emeritus for the Orchid Digest which he edited for ten years and still works on the editorial committee of that Journal.

Harold has written over a hundred books and papers on conservation as well as breeding orchids. His most recent orchid book is Tropical Slipper Orchids and he is working on a new book on Autumn Flowering Daffodils. He also writes novels.

Harold has been honored by being a recipient of the Herbert Medal from the International Bulb Society; the Orchid Digest Medal for meritorious service to orchids; the Ralph B. White Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society for innovations in daffodils; the Gold Medal from the American Daffodil Society and the Gold Medal from the American Orchid Society as well as the Westonbirt Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society for outstanding achievement with orchids.

Dr. Koopowitz's talk will be on “The Autumn Flowering Daffodils.”


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