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Our first meeting of 2025 saw a PowerPoint presentation on the UK International Orchid Show put together by Chris Barker of the BOC. Having previously been part of agricultural shows at Newbury, Peterborough and Malvern

December is traditionally a festive meeting, with quizzes of varying difficulty, plenty of food for sharing and a chance to have a good old mardle as they say in Norfolk. This year saw a new

November saw our annual plant auction, always a popular event in the Society’s calendar. With fewer opportunities to obtain unusual orchid species these days the auction lots were soon knocked down. The result was many

Our President, Bryan Adams, gave his ever popular demonstration on re-potting orchids this month. One important point in the re-potting process is the elimination of the risk of transferring viruses from one plant to another

Thanks to arrangements made by Helen Hoyningen-Hune we linked up with Germany, courtesy of Zoom, to enjoy a presentation on the “Diversity of Orchids in Ecuador by Frank Gohlke. We travelled the length and breadth

‘Tropical Orchids without the Heat’ was the topic of a very interesting talk by our guest speaker Andre Bannister. Despite the general idea that tropical orchids require a lot of warmth Andrew showed through his

This month our Secretary, Colin Thorburn, gave an account of his visit to Taiwan where he attended the 23rd World Orchid Conference and Show. This took place at the Tainan Conference Centre. At the conference

A good attendance of members was seen at the Society’s Annual General Meeting. After the reports were presented by the Secretary and Treasurer elections to the Committee took place. As our President had reached the