November 2024 monthly meeting

Our annual social event, with guests The Rum Old Boys, was on 27 November. More people came than to any of our meetings ever before (so far as I can remember – I’m happy to be corrected!) and included relatives of the late Steve Wright, our former Show...

October 2024 meeting

Our returning guest at our meeting on 30-Oct-24 was Simon Tarrant of the Hardy Orchid Society, who gave us a talk entitled ‘Balkan Orchid Adventures’. This was an account of tours he has taken to the Balkans in Spring and Summer, visiting...

September 2024 monthly meeting

Colin Thorburn (President of the Orchid Society of East Anglia) was our guest at our September 2024 meeting and gave a talk on the 23rd World Orchid Conference.  This triennial event took place in Taiwan and lasted 16 days – from 24-Feb-24 to 10-Mar-24.  It was...

Society members successful in BOC photo competition

At our meeting on 25-Sep-24, we received the news that one of our members, David Kohn, had come first in the British Orchid Council’s 2024 Photo Competition, and another, Phil Broom, had come third!  This is obviously an excellent result for Suffolk Orchid...

June 2024 monthly meeting

Our meeting on 26-Jun-24 was the Society’s Annual General Meeting, in which the main business was to hear the reports of the Society’s officers and the election or re-election of the Committee. Andy Gissing was presented with both the BOC Cup for the best...