Irish Orchid Society

IOS Meeting October 2025
2025-10-06 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Auditorium @ The National Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin, Dublin, D09 VY63, Ireland
Members' Plant Surgery Night
Bring along your orchids, sick or over grown or just looking for some advice, pop along and get some expert advice.
Table Show
We will host an in-person and a virtual table show
In-person Raffle
We will have an in-person raffle on the night with some beautiful orchids to win.
(The virtual link for the night to watch the meeting online will appear on this page below, just click the Watch button and it'll open a window for you to join the online event)

IOS Meeting November 2025 - Part Two Talk by Saul Walker
2025-11-03 19:00 - 21:00 | The Auditorium @ The National Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin, Dublin, D09 VY63, Ireland
Saul Walker returns this November to give us the second part of his Talk on The Wonderful Orchids of Oz
An introduction to Saul Walker from the BBC Gardener's Wold website (https://www.bbcgardenersworldlive.com/meet_the_experts/saul-walker/)
Saul Walker’s passion in horticulture
Saul Walker fell in love with horticulture through his Grandparents passion for visiting historic houses and gardens, and after a brief spell as an Archaeologist, he went to train and work as a Gardener for the National Trust at Antony House in Cornwall.
After many years there he was accepted to study on the prestigious 3-year Kew Diploma of Botanical Horticulture at RBG, Kew and was exposed to the fantastic plant collections in the gardens and glasshouses, as well as travelling to Australia, Southern Spain and the French Riviera to study plants in their native habitats.
Following his time at Kew he spent a couple of years as part of the Show management teams for both the RHS Hampton Court Palace and RHS Chelsea Flower Show respectively, however he was unable to resist the call back to his native Devon, where he is now the Head Gardener of Stonelands House- a privately owned 10-acre garden.
Saul’s speciality interests include Woodland Gardens, Orchids, and Exotic plants. A member of the RHS Tender Plant Committee and Trustee of The Hardy Plant Society and the Chartered Institute of Horticulture, he also co-hosts the Talking Heads Podcast with Lucy Chamberlain.

In-Person Raffle
We will also have some orchids for raffle on the night, tickets can be purchased by cash or card.

Cancelled - IOS Meeting January 2026
2026-01-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Dublin
Sorry but tonight’s virtual meeting has been cancelled due to illness.

IOS Member's Meeting: February 2026
2026-02-09 19:00 - 20:30 | https://www.irishorchidsociety.org/ios-event/ios-members-meeting-feb-2026/
A virtual/online only meeting this month.
We will have a talk about growing orchids in-doors during the winter, the importance of lighting, heat and humidity.
What member's have in flower now.
Any orchid issues
The spring show.

IOS Member's Meeting: March 2026 - Talk by Malcolm Moodie on The Orchids of Thailand
2026-03-02 19:00 - 20:30 | https://www.irishorchidsociety.org/ios-event/ios-members-meeting-march-2026/
A virtual/online only meeting this month.
We will have a talk from Malcolm Moodie, from the Solihull Orchid Society on The Orchids of Thailand

A little bio on Malcolm:
I have been growing orchids for more than 35 years and have a climatically controlled greenhouse with about 300 orchids.
The greenhouse has two growing areas. The Intermediate area contains mainly Paphiopedilums and Phragmipediums whilst the cool area has mainly Masdevallias with some Oncidium family.
I am President of the Solihull & District Orchid Society and in the past served as their Chairman and Show Secretary.
I am also a member of the British Paphiopedilum Society and the Orchid Society of Great Britain.
In addition, I am a core member of the RHS Orchid Expert Group (Orchid Committee).
I have travelled extensively searching for orchids in the wild travelling to Thailand, the Malaysian peninsular, Singapore multiple times, Borneo twice visiting both Sarawak and Sabah all in South East Asia and also Peru and Ecuador in South America.
The talks I give relate those journeys. In addition, I give talks to Gardening Clubs on Growing Orchids in the Home as a way of demystifying the misconceptions that many people have of orchids being difficult.
In the past I to used run a business supplying fertilisers and other sundry items to orchid growers and was the European distributor of DynaGro fertilisers among other products and use that background for a further talk on Feeding Orchids - Feast or Famine.

If we have time we'll discuss:

What member's have in flower now.
Any orchid issues
The spring show.

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IOS Member's Meeting: April 2026
2026-04-13 19:00 - 20:30 | National Botanic Gardens, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin, Co. Dublin, D09 VY63, Ireland
Details to be announce soon
