The guest speaker at our February meeting was Malcolm Moodie, who gave us a talk entitled ‘Feeding Orchids: Feast or Famine?’ as well as bringing some of his own orchids for sale. In a well structured and articulate presentation based on his 30-35 years...
Our January meeting featured Bill Gardiner and other experienced orchid growers in the Society giving advice to members in respect of poorly or problem orchids that they brought in for inspection. We also admired Andy Gissing’s Angraecum sesquidipale...
This was our annual social evening, sadly depleted by Covid and traffic problems. Nevertheless, 18 members+partners managed to attend and brought a generous spread of food and drink. We haven’t previously had a guest speaker at our social evenings, but this...
Twenty-one members were present for Andy Jones’ interesting and informative talk on the subject of ‘Growing Under Lights’. Andy has spoken to us on this topic before, but that was about twenty years ago and things have moved on! Not the...
Zsuzsa from Spicesotic Plants gave us an interesting and informative talk about miniature orchids both in pots and on mounts. Many were in flower but you almost needed a magnifying glass to see them, the flowers were so dainty. She explained how some orchids,...
Mike Armstrong was the guest speaker at our June 2022 meeting, addressing us on the subject of Cattleyas. Mike held the National Collection of Cattleyas for many years, and commercially ran Mikandra Orchids until ten years ago. Mike described his approach to growing...
