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News and pictures from our latest meetings and eventsFebruary 2023 monthly meeting
The guest speaker at our February meeting was Malcolm Moodie, who gave us a talk entitled 'Feeding Orchids: Feast or Famine?' as well as bringing some of his own orchids for sale. In a well structured and articulate presentation based on his 30-35 years of practical...
January 2023 monthly meeting
Our January meeting featured Bill Gardiner and other experienced orchid growers in the Society giving advice to members in respect of poorly or problem orchids that they brought in for inspection. We also admired Andy Gissing's Angraecum sesquidipale (Darwin's...
November 2022 monthly meeting
This was our annual social evening, sadly depleted by Covid and traffic problems. Nevertheless, 18 members+partners managed to attend and brought a generous spread of food and drink. We haven't previously had a guest speaker at our social evenings, but this time we...
October 2022 monthly meeting
Twenty-one members were present for Andy Jones' interesting and informative talk on the subject of 'Growing Under Lights'. Andy has spoken to us on this topic before, but that was about twenty years ago and things have moved on! Not the requirements of plants though...
September 2022 monthly meeting
Zsuzsa from Spicesotic Plants gave us an interesting and informative talk about miniature orchids both in pots and on mounts. Many were in flower but you almost needed a magnifying glass to see them, the flowers were so dainty. She explained how some orchids,...
June 2022 monthly meeting
Mike Armstrong was the guest speaker at our June 2022 meeting, addressing us on the subject of Cattleyas. Mike held the National Collection of Cattleyas for many years, and commercially ran Mikandra Orchids until ten years ago. Mike described his approach to growing...
Monthly meeting and AGM – 25 May 2022
Our May meeting started with a brief AGM, in which the Officers of the Society made their reports. A number of posts on the Committee were up for (re-)election, and all were filled by our willing Members :-). There followed another opportunity for members to bring...
Suffolk Show 2022
After three long years enduring the COVID pandemic, it was great to be able to contribute a stand to the Suffolk Show. Fewer members than usual were able to contribute orchids in flower to the stand, but nevertheless there were enough to set up a marvellous display...
April Meeting
This month a larger turnout of members were treated to a talk by Colin Thorburn about Sarawak and the Asia Pacific Orchid Conference that Colin had attended. He explained how Vandas and Phaleanopsis made up a lot of the displays which also featured quite a few cats...
March monthly meeting
Although slightly down on numbers this month there was another good table display. The previous winners table was won by Paul Eaton with his well flowered Coelogyne cristata Derrie Brown c.o.m./R.H.S. He says this clone flowers well for him with a min .temperature of...
Martlesham Heath show 2022
On a glorious spring day we held our first show since 2019, not really sure how many people would come after Covid restrictions have been lifted. We had a good display of plants, the most notable being a beautiful Lycaste virginalis exhibited by David Kohn which won...
February monthly meeting
Once again this month we had an excellent table display. The previous winners competition table was won by Paul Eaton with his beautiful Coelogyne Memoria William Micholitz, there were no entries on the novice table. Our speaker this month was Michael Radley talking...