We are honoured to have booked Dr Phillip Cribb for this meeting. He has written a lot of books about various orchid topics and has worked from Kew for many years. On his previous visit to our society he has given a very informative talk. The title of this talk will be ‘The trouble with European orchids – bees, spiders and flies in southern Europe’ and follows a field trip and publication of a book on the topic. Looking forward to…

This is our big chance to showcase our society. It will take the usual format with a display, demonstrations, plants for sale and food. The hall will open at 8.00am to give us a chance to arrange the display and for the kitchen to get started before the doors open to the public at 10.00am. The committee would be extremely grateful if members could loan their plants for the display. If you are unable to bring them yourself I am…

We have invited Michael Radley to come to talk to us at this meeting. Michael is a new speaker for us and grows his own orchids, has visited orchid growing regions and has a talk about Margaret Mee, the well to do Victorian lady artist who travelled the world and painted amazing pictures of what she saw. I hope he will touch on this in his planned talk on " Orchids and the Art of Perfection"