Events
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May 2025 meeting
St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, MartleshamSpeaker TBA. Doors open about 7pm for a 7.30pm start.
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June 2025 meeting
St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, MartleshamAnnual General Meeting of the Suffolk Orchid Society, including presentation of trophies. After what is usually a fairly brief AGM, we have Guy William Eves,a local botanical artist, to talk to us. His drawings of plants, we think are in pencil, but his talk will be about 'How he works', so all will then be […]
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September 2025 meeting
St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, MartleshamArrive from 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Zsusanna Serer from Spiceotic Plants will be visiting us to talk about "What is Blooming in Our Nursery Now". She will also be bringing orchids for sale, and can bring to the meeting for collection orders made a few days in advance.
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October 2025 meeting
St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, MartleshamArrive from 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Andrew Bannister, proprietor of 'Orchid Alchemy', will be visiting us to talk about "Sub-Tropical Epiphytes", and hopefully will bring some of his seedlings for sale.
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November 2025 meeting
St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, MartleshamArrive from 7pm for a 7.30pm start. This is our Christmas Social meeting, featuring a 'Round the World' picture quiz - please bring partners and guests, and a small plate of food to share.
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January 2026 meeting
St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, MartleshamArrive from 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Members' plant sale. In-house Plant Clinic and Cultural Discussions, hosted by our more experienced growers.
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February 2026 meeting
St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, MartleshamArrive from 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Microsoft 'Teams' meeting with Leif Bersweden, author and botanist, talking about the adventures he had touring Britain to find the orchids for his book "The Orchid Hunter."
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Suffolk Orchid Society Spring Show 2026
St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, MartleshamCome and marvel at a gorgeous display of our Cup-winning orchids! The orchids offered in supermarkets and garden centres are a tiny sample of the tens of thousands of known species and hybrids. Our Show is an opportunity to enjoy a greater variety of their exotic forms, colours and fragrances. The full programme is to […]
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March 2026 meeting
St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, MartleshamArrive from 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Our guest speaker will be Simon Wright, retired manager of Peter Beales Roses, whose talk will be 'Rose Growing made easy'. He will also bring plants for sale.
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April 2026 meeting
St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, MartleshamArrive from 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Colin Thorburn (of the Orchid Society of East Anglia) and Andy Gissing will tell us what judges are looking for when judging orchid competitions. Please bring lots of orchids from which Colin will select eight; we will then have the opportunity to judge them and compare our judgements […]