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  • October 2025 meeting

    St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, Martlesham

    Arrive 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.

  • November 2025 meeting

    St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, Martlesham

    Arrive 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.

  • January 2026 meeting

    St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, Martlesham

    Arrive from 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Members' plant sale. In-house Plant Clinic and Cultural Discussions, hosted by our more experienced growers.

  • February 2026 meeting

    St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, Martlesham

    Arrive 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."

  • Suffolk Orchid Society Spring Show 2026

    St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, Martlesham

    Come 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 […]

    £2.00

  • March 2026 meeting

    St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, Martlesham

    Arrive 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.

  • April 2026 meeting

    St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, Martlesham

    Arrive 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 […]

  • Look out for our stand in the Floral Marquee at the Suffolk Show 27/28 May!

    Suffolk Showground Trinity Park, Felixstowe Road, Ipswich, United Kingdom

    As usual, we will be setting up a stand in the Floral Marquee at the Suffolk Show 27/28 May 2026 – and very much hoping to repeat last year’s success, when not only was it awarded a ‘Large Gold’, it also won the Notcutt’s Salver “For the Best Flower Show Trade Exhibit of under 37 […]

  • May 2026 meeting

    St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, Martlesham

    Arrive from 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Bill and Andy (our Chair and Vice-Chair) will be telling us about their trip to the 25th World Orchid Conference that took place in Dresden, Germany on 25-29 March this year. We expect lots of lovely pictures!

  • June 2026 monthly meeting and AGM

    St Michael's Church Centre The Drift, Martlesham

    Arrive from 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Annual General Meeting of the Suffolk Orchid Society, including presentation of trophies. After what is usually a fairly brief AGM, we have a talk by Chris & Marian Stephens entitled 'Bees, Honey & Flowers'.