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News and pictures from our latest meetings and eventsApril 2023 monthly meeting
Phil Gould was our guest at our April meeting, to give us a talk entitled 'The Cambridge Connection' - covering his involvement in caring for the orchid collection at the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens (CBG). In a wide-ranging presentation beset with technical...
March 2023 monthly meeting
Simon Tarrant visited us this month to give a talk entitled 'Orchids of Estonia'. Simon visited Estonia in 2010 and has subsequently (in 2017 and 2022) taken groups there, orchid-spotting with the help of local guides. There are up to 31 species of orchids per...
Suffolk Orchid Society Annual Show – 11 March 2023
Our annual Show on 11 March 2023 was a great success, with credit and thanks due to everyone who helped by publicising the event, bringing their plants in flower, setting up the display, admitting and caring for our visitors, providing refreshments, running the...
February 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...