Classic Cattleyas – Arthur Chadwick, Chadwick and Son Orchids, Inc.

Art Chadwick 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 has been growing orchids since 1943.  Art and his father authored The Classic Cattleyas, which is widely considered to be the definitive book on large-flowered Cattleya species. Martha Stewart favorably reviewed the book and had both Chadwicks on her TV Show. The Chadwicks operate 11 greenhouses in rural Powhatan County, a retail store in Richmond, and boards over 13,000 orchids for local clients. The company was recently featured in Southern Living magazine, The New York Times, and Richmond magazine.

Art has the distinction of naming Cattleya hybrids after the wives of the last five U.S. Presidents and personally presenting the flowers to most of the honored recipients. He is a ‘regular’ on the orchid society speaker’s circuit and has spoken internationally at the Western Australian Orchid Conference as well as two World Orchid Conferences – France 2005 and Ecuador 2017). Each month since 2002, the Richmond Times-Dispatch has published Art’s orchid advice column. The Winston-Salem Journal as well as several other newspapers around the country now also run the popular column.