About Suffolk Orchid Society
The Suffolk Orchid Society was founded on September 5th 1981 when 10 growers met at the Oddfellows Hall in Ipswich and is still going strong today. The membership was at first very small with sometimes only ten or a dozen attending for meetings. Thanks in part to the Society putting on displays at garden centres and flower shows the membership gradually increased to its present level.
What We Do
We hold regular meetings with different themes, hold monthly competitions for best growers, as well as hosting and attending a number of annual events to showcase orchids from our society.
Monthly Meetings
The meetings have always been held during the September to May period and it is only in recent years that we have had enough growers and therefore plants to stage a show of our own, usually in March.
Events
We began showing our plants in the mid-
Latest News
Updates from our latest events and meetings
June Table Winner
This well grown plant of Neofinetia falcata, belonging to Bill Haldane, won the June experts table display. (There was no novice exhibit this month.) Bill grows it hanging as high as possible in the coolest part of the warm house. Like vandas, it likes free draining... read moreWoodbridge Flower Show
On 1st July Steve, myself and my husband attended the Woodbridge Horticultural Society’s Flower Show. Although we had a smaller table than last year we had a variety of different orchid types. We had several queries about plants on the table and hopefully encouraged a... read moreSuffolk Show Success
Once again we won a large gold medal. Well done everyone especially Steve for putting on a glorious display at this year’s Suffolk Show. Bill G. again bought some spectacular specimen plants but we could not do without the plants provided by other members who found... read moreNew members always welcome
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