As well as the Society's Annual General Meeting, we will have a closer look at members' orchids on the display tables, with a discussion where we can all chip in.

Colin Thorburn (President of the Orchid Society of East Anglia) will be visiting to tell us about the 23rd World Orchid Conference. We are experimenting with a change to our Display Tables, as the division between the main display table, the 'Winners' table and the 'Novices' table hasn't been working very well for a while.  […]

Simon Tarrant from the Hardy Orchid Society will be giving a talk entitled 'Balkan Orchid Adventures'. Doors open about 7pm for a 7.30pm start.

Our November 2024 monthly meeting will be our annual social event.  Members are invited to bring spouses/partners and a small plate of food to share (enough for yourselves).  We will be entertained by 'The Rum Old Boys' (singers), and the Display Tables will be set up as usual. Doors open about 7pm for a 7.30pm […]

This month there will be an in-house 'question and answer' plant clinic. Bring your problem plants - we all have them! - and get advice from our experienced growers. Doors open about 7pm for a 7.30pm start.

Simon Pugh-Jones (formerly of the Writhlington School Orchid Project, now of Isle of Portland Orchids https://www.isleofportlandorchids.co.uk/) will be with us via Zoom to give a talk entitled "Orchids in Cultivation and the Wild"  in which he will give us a look around his greenhouses and talk about some specific plants. Doors open about 7pm for […]

Joining us will be Andrew Broughton of the Henstead Exotic Garden, to give a talk about "The Story of Henstead Exotic Gardens". This promises to be a light hearted evening with amusing stories about the formation and development of the gardens. Henstead Exotic Garden's website is at http://www.hensteadexoticgarden.co.uk/ (insecure connection). Doors open about 7pm for […]

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 the exotic forms, colours and fragrances of orchids. It's not just […]

Huw Richards will be visiting us to give a talk about Dendrobiums. Doors open about 7pm for a 7.30pm start.

As usual, we will be setting up a stand in the Floral Marquee at the Suffolk Show 28/29 May 2025 - and very much hoping to repeat last year's success, when not only was it awarded a ‘Large Gold’, it also won the ‘Suffolk Seed Stores Perpetual Challenge Cup’ for the best stand in the […]