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...
Our May meeting started with a brief AGM, in which the Officers of the Society made their reports. A number of posts on the Committee were up for (re-)election, and all were filled by our willing Members :-). There followed another opportunity for members to bring...
This month a larger turnout of members were treated to a talk by Colin Thorburn about Sarawak and the Asia Pacific Orchid Conference that Colin had attended. He explained how Vandas and Phaleanopsis made up a lot of the displays which also featured quite a few cats...
Although slightly down on numbers this month there was another good table display. The previous winners table was won by Paul Eaton with his well flowered Coelogyne cristata Derrie Brown c.o.m./R.H.S. He says this clone flowers well for him with a min .temperature of...
