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…

Hi to all our intended visitors. It is with much regret that due to the evolving situation regarding coronavirus it has been decided to cancel our show on Saturday 21st March at St Michael’s Church Centre, Martlesham. Despite safety statements from the government we felt that we could not guarantee the advice being the same in a week’s time. A large proportion of our members and visitors are elderly thus falling in to the “at risk” category. We could not…

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"