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In April we welcomed Dr Helen Milner, the Chair of the British Orchid Council, who gave us a talk on orchids in terraria. Starting with the invention in the 1850s of a glazed case by

Our President, Colin Thorburn, who had just returned from Taiwan,  gave a report on this year’s Taiwan International Orchid Show. This show is one of the ‘Big 4’ orchid shows along with the World Orchid

This month’s meeting began with us welcoming 4 new member to the Society. Unfortunately Ian Charlwood was unable to introduce his presentation due to illness but Jack Butcher kindly stepped in to run the programme.

Following our tradition the first meeting of the New Year was a social evening. Our Chairman, Min Kennison, provided a set of quizzes to tax our brains and compete for bottles of fizz. Following this

This month the meeting began with welcoming 4 new members to the Society. The main business of the meeting was the Annual Plant Auction. In the absence of our Chairman, the job fell to our

This month we welcomed Peter and Sue Johnson from the Cambridge O.S. who had travelled to Ecuador on two orchid hunting tours organised by the O.S.G.B and provided by Ecuagenera. They were led by Jose

A very well attended meeting welcomed Zsuzsanna Serer from Spicesotic Plants who gave a talk on ‘Dracula and Bulbophyllum’.  These two distinct genera gave an interesting contrast, the former being cool growing species from South

The topic of our August meeting was ‘Judging Orchids’, led by Bryan and Colin who are both British Orchid Council accredited judges. The evening began with an introduction to the judging procedures and what criteria