IOS Spring Show and Exhibition 2025
The first Spring Show in seven years of the Irish Orchid Society was held on the first weekend in March 2025. It was held in the Gallery of the Visitor and Education Centre at The National Botanic Gardens.
This was a wonderful location for the show and exhibition.
The show included an exhibition of botanic art and items from the National Botanic Gardens Library archive. Several pieces of art were loaned by Susan Sex and Deborah Lambkin.
Over the two days there were two talks and two workshops; a talk by Challen Willemsen which went through the orchids of the Neotropics, a talk authored by Brendan Sayers and given by David Morse on Ireland’s Wild Orchids.
The workshops included one on successful orchid culture in the home and the other was a surgery with a question and answer session.
Lastly there was a wonderful table show of orchids from member’s own collections which were judged.
Table Show
submissions and winners.
We had 19 submissions to the table show and the winners were.
Best in Show and winner of the Myred Best Perpetual Award 2025, 1st Prize and Best Species all went to Sean Phelan and his beautiful Dinema polybulbon
2nd Place, Best Hybrid and Best Paphiopedilum for Paph. rothschildianum “Tokyo Titan x Spread Eagle” went to Andrew McCroskery
3rd Prize was for this beautiful Dendrobium kingianum from Patrick Marshall
Best miniature went to a little gem of Anathallis linearifolia from Sean Phelan
Best Cattleya prize was for this excellent example of Laelia anceps “Sierra Orientalis” from Sean Phelan
Best Phalaenopsis went to this fine Phalaenopsis “Montpellier” from Anna Timofeeva
Raffle Winners!
Numbers 73, 75 and 06 were drawn in the plant raffle on the day. The winners were
1st Prize: Coleesa Egan
2nd Prize: Eileen Whelan
3rd Prize: Pauline Stack
Thanks to Marie and Sean who helped with the setting up of the magnificent display of orchids. Our next show-type event will be at Bloom his June and we will need to staff that and set up an even larger display. One benefit of joining in is free entry to Bloom!
Congratulations ,
I am so sorry not being able to partake as I was always involved in the orchid weekends before Covid
David has done a superb job as we all know.
The orchids on display and for competition were magnificent—- would encourage many people to become interested
Thanks to all involved
Carmel H