Our Society invites you to join us and share the pleasure of our friendly monthly meetings, and enjoy a beautiful display of orchids at the Plympton Community Centre 34 Long Street Plympton at 7.30pm on the Third Wednesday of each Month.
Benefits:
- Free Monthly Orchid Bulletin
- Library of Orchid books for Reference & Borrowing
- Plant Trading Table at most meetings
- Cultural Advice and Potting Demonstrations
- Regular Programs by Specialist Guest Speakers
- Monthly Benching and Judging of Orchids
Meetings
3rd Wednesday of the month
7.30pm
Members set up plants to be judged, buy raffle tickets, judge plants for Popular Vote Award, visit the trading table and library.
Prizes for the various raffles and other draws generally consist of plants or gardening accessories.
2022 meetings as follows:
18 January 2023 – Don Higgs Topic: Review of 2022 judging.
15 February 2023 – Les Nesbit Topic: Native Orchid Species
15 March 2023 – Jane Higgs Topic: Orchid National Conference 2022
19 April 2023 – Jams Argent Topic: Preparation and displaying of Orchids for the Show Bench
17 May 2023 – Trevor Jacob Topic: People and Orchids
21 June 2023 – Andrew Bird Topic: To be confirmed
19 July 2023 – Roger Herramen Topic: To be confirmed
16 August 2023 – Winter Dinner Night Speaker June Niejalke Topic: Why did you write this book?
20 September 2023 – Kevin Western Topic: Preparing Sarcs for showing
18 October 2023 – Sarcochilus Night No speaker
15 November 2023 – Annual General Meeting No Speaker
14 December 2023 – Christmas Dinner Meeting Speaker: The man in a red suit!
It must be noted that these arrangements are subject to changes and should only be regarded as a guide for our year’s activities.