Join the Society
Enjoy our monthly meetings.
We are a friendly society who offer a big welcome to new members.
The membership subscripton is £25.00 per year and covers a single or double membership for a couple living at the same address. We meet at the Royal Horticultural Society Gardens at Harlow Carr Harrogate in the modern facilites of the Bramall Learning Centre and also Pool Village Hall.
Take this link to our application form.
Meetings
Our next monthly meeting will be on Sunday 19th January 2025 10am-1pm at Pool Village Hall
'Problem Plant Forum'
There will be the usual break for refreshments followed by the table talk hosted by one of our members.
Annual Show
Harrogate Orchid Society Annual Show 2025
This year our Annual Show will be held in conjunction with our Orchids for Everyone Weekend
on the Saturday and Sunday 2nd and 3rd of August 2025 at RHS Harlow Carr
in all rooms at The Learning Centre.
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Orchids for everyone weekend will be held in conjuction with our Annual Show
Organised by The Harrogate Orchid Society
in conjunction with the RHS Harlow Carr Garden;
Harrogate
this event is being held on the 2nd and 3rd and August 2025
opening times 10.00 am-4.00pm
Once again there will be visiting Orchid Societies and plants for sale
To be held at the Royal Horticultural Gardens, Harlow Carr, Harrogate
A range of beautiful orchids will be displayed at the most northerly garden of the Royal Horticultural Gardens over the weekend 3rd & 4th 2024, allowing visitors the chance to see a large range of varieties all under one roof.
Burnham Nurseries and
Spiceotics Plants will be on site offering for sale unusual and exotic orchids.
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Stanhopea connate x paniamensis Cattleya 'Pastoral Innocence'
Photographs supplied by Harrogate Orchid Society
As well as holding potting demonstrations experts will be offering help and advice with problem plants,and visitors are welcome to bring along their orchids for advice.
The Orchids for Everone weekend will be held in the Bramall Learning Centre between 10am - 4pm on the 3rd and 4th August 2024. Please check the website at www.rhs.org.uk/harlowcarr
for more details and garden admission prices, or call 0845 612 265.
Harrogate Orchid Society Meeting Dates and Show Dates
Details of Meetings and Show Dates given below
If you are a member of the RHS why not come to one of our meetings when visiting the Gardens.
For more information about the meetings please contact
Malcolm White Tel 01535 661616
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19th January 2025 |
Meeting at Pool Village Hall, Arthington Lane, Pool-in-Wharfedale, Otley, W. Yorkshire, LS21 1LG. 10.00am - 1.00pm 'Problem Plant Forum'
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23rd February 2025
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Meeting at Pool Village Hall, Arthington Lane, Pool-in-Wharfedale, Otley, W. Yorkshire, LS21 1LG. 10.00am - 1.00pm Speaker - John Gay - "A Peruvian Experience" |
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23rd March 2025 |
Meeting at Pool Village Hall, Arthington Lane, Pool-in-Wharfedale, Otley, W. Yorkshire, LS21 1LG. 10.00am - 1.00pm AGM and Plant Auction Please note: Members Only |
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20th April 2025 |
Meeting at Pool Village Hall, Arthington Lane, Pool-in-Wharfedale, Otley, W. Yorkshire, LS21 1LG. 10.00am - 1.00pm Speaker - Peter Walker form "Wacks and Wicked Plants" |
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Sunday |
25th May 2025 |
Meeting at RHS Harlow Carr, in the Bramall Learning Centre, Harrogate, HG3 1QB. 10.00am - 1.00pm to be held in the Jubilee Room. Speaker - |
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Sunday |
29th June 2025 |
Meeting at Pool Village Hall, Arthington Lane, Pool-in-Wharfedale, Otley, W. Yorkshire, LS21 1LG. 10.00am - 1.00pm Speaker - Tony Garthwaite - "Orchids of the British Isles"
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Saturday & Sunday |
2nd/3rd August 2025 |
Annual Show & Orchids for Everyone to be held at RHS Harlow Carr Learning Centre (all rooms to be used). |
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Sunday |
28th September 2025 |
Meeting at Pool Village Hall, Arthington Lane, Pool-in-Wharfedale, Otley, W. Yorkshire, LS21 1LG. 10.00am - 1.00pm Speaker To Be Arranged |
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Sunday |
27th October 2025 |
Meeting at Harlow Carr, in the Bramall Learning Centre, Harrogate, HG3 1QB. 10.00am - 1.00pm to be held in the Jubilee Room Speaker To Be Arranged |
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Sunday |
30th November 2025 |
Meeting at Harlow Carr, in the Bramall Learning Centre, Harrogate, HG3 1QB.
10.00am - 1.00pm to be held in the Jubilee Room
Speaker - Philip Seaton - 'Saving Orchids; A Journey through the Americas' |
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Sunday |
21st December 2025 |
Meeting at Harlow Carr, in the Bramall Learning Centre, Harrogate, HG3 1QB. 10.00am - 1.00pm to be held in the Jubilee Room Speaker To Be Arranged |
Annual Orchid Show
| Shows Harrogate Orchid Society will be exhibiting at in 2025 |
Even if members are not attending a show it may be possible to arrange transport of plants so giving members a chance to exhibit and perhaps win one of the covetted rosettes. All shows are open to Society members.
If you wish to exhibit at any of these shows please contact Ivor Pawson Tel 01909 477832
ivor.pawson@sky.com
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| SHOW DATES FOR 2025 | ||
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Sunday 1st March |
Sheffield & District Orchid Society Annual Show. | |
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Sunday 6th April |
Hinckley & District Orchid Society Annual Show. Stoke Golding Club, CV13 6DZ |
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Saturday 5th July |
North of England Annual Show. Barton Village Hall, Barton, Garstang, Lancashire, PR3 5AZ. |
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Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd August 2025
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Harrogate Orchid Society and 'Orchids for Everyone' weekend organised jointly by the Harrogate Orchid Society and the Royal Horticultural Society. To be held at the Learning Centre, RHS gardens Harlow Carr Harrogate. HG3 1QB |
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Sunday 31st August
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North East of England Annual Show. Durham. RHS Orchid Committee will be in attendance to judge indiidual members' plants,
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Sunday 28th September |
East Midlands Orchid Society Annual Show |
Orchids are for everyone
There are over 30,000 species and more than 200,000 hybrid orchids.
Grow your orchids in a conservatory?
Stanhopeas are quite happy growing in a conservatory with a minimum temperature of 8 degrees Centigrade
Join our Society
See many different kinds of orchids and learn how to care for them it is not as difficult as it looks.
Cool growing
This modern hybrid is typical of the type of orchids, which can be bought in garden centres and are suitable for growing on window sills and in a conservatory.
Phalaenopsis, everyones favourite.
The ideal window sill orchid
Cymbidium.
Would you like to learn how to flower these beautiful orchids?
Orchid Shows.
Harrogate orchid Society takes part in eight major orchid shows each year all members can take part if they wish.
Exotic Mysterious or Wierd.
Masdevallias & Draculas grow in the cool mountain region of Central & S.America.
For everyone with one orchid or a thousand!
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