The Irish Orchid Society

Talks and workshops at our Spring Show next weekend. Join us at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9 on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd March. Free entry and open to the public.

Join us on the March 1st weekend for our Spring Show and Exhibition at The National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. Table Show, orchid display, exhibition of botanical art and talks. Open to the public, free entry. 12-4pm Sat, 10-3pm Sun.

The colours of this Paphiopedilum venustum just get stronger and deeper the longer it’s open

The Artist's Well Recorded in front of a live audience, The Artist's Well is a series of interviews with artists and those involved in the arts about their lives and careers.

I’m looking forward to talking to Alan Keane on his The Artist’s Well podcast and Youtube video next Saturday the 18th January 10am. Please do join us!
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Just opening now, Paphiopedilum delenatii var album. This wastes no time in opening! It opens while the stalk still grows. #orchids

Paphiopedilum venustum is back in flower and full of character. #Orchids This species has wonderfully mottled leaves like jungle kaki.

My beautiful Colmanara Midnight Miracles Masai Red flowering for Christmas #ChristmasOrchids @irishorchidsociety.bsky.social

Beautiful!

Paph. Ice Age #ChristmasOrchids

Detail of a water colour by RHS orchid artist Deborah Lambkin

Christmas Raffle ends soon: There is only one day left to enter our Christmas Raffle of botanical art and rare books. Tickets are only €5 each and the raffle is open to the public everywhere.

#orchids #BotanicalArt #RareBooks

Click the link below 👇

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This complex Paph hybrid (American) produces enormous flowers of the highest quality every year. It’s just stunning! #orchids

Irish Orchid Society Art & Rare Book Raffle Christmas 2024 - Irish Orchid Society The Irish Orchid Society's Art and Rare Book Raffle for Christmas 2024 is now live. Go to the page to purchase a ticket.

Win this in our Christmas Raffle! This is the beautiful signed Library Edition of Brendan Sayers and Susan Sex’s Ireland’s Wild Orchids - A Field Guide. www.irishorchidsociety.org/art-rare-boo...

We have a new article on a rarely seen genus from Africa written by member Craig Gibbon: www.irishorchidsociety.org/members-mont...

Win this in our Christmas Raffle. A limited edition print number 24/50 signed by the artist. Dactylorhiza kerryensis by Susan Sex. Mounted and framed. Susan is one of Ireland’s most celebrated living botanical artists. Tickets can purchased here: www.irishorchidsociety.org/art-rare-boo...

So talented! 😁

This is one of four prizes in our Christmas Raffle, tickets are €5 each and can be purchased online through this link: www.irishorchidsociety.org/art-rare-boo...

Bound in leather and grey cloth with patterned end papers and speckled edges and matching slip cover. Only 850 of these were published, and this is number 598 and is signed by the author and illustrator. It is a modern botanical gem detailing Ireland’s unique wild orchids.

Irish Orchid Society Art & Rare Book Raffle Christmas 2024 - Irish Orchid Society The Irish Orchid Society's Art and Rare Book Raffle for Christmas 2024 is now live. Go to the page to purchase a ticket.

Win this in our Christmas Raffle! This is the beautiful signed Library Edition of Brendan Sayers and Susan Sex’s Ireland’s Wild Orchids - A Field Guide. www.irishorchidsociety.org/art-rare-boo...

Masdevallia aurea, this diminutive epiphyte is native to Ecuador and specifically the south eastern Morona-Santiago province. Found growing at elevations of 1,000 to 1,700 metres in the wet tropic biome. Aurea is Latin for golden. This cespitose species grows only to about 6cm high.

Paphiopedilum wenshanense x vietnamense (Paph. Eddy Wets) #MembersCollection #Orchids First flowering.

#Zygopetalum mackayii x sib This #Orchid smells Beautimous OMG 🌱

It was named after one of the early curators of the Trinity College Dublin Botanic Garden: James Townsend MacKay, though today it’s accepted species is Zygo. maculatum

The colours just pop! Masdevallia x Urubamba

Not an orchid. This is the crown of a bromeliad. Totally different family and still beautiful.

Not an orchid. This is the crown of a bromeliad. Totally different family and still beautiful.

Some #Cattleya Alliance hybrids in flower over the past few years. #orchids

Me too!

Just starting to open. This is a first flowering of a recent cross of Paph. wenshanense x vietnamense. It’s a primary hybrid, why not one made before? Well Paph. vietnamense was only discovered in 1997, and Paphiopedilum wenshanense was only described in 2000. A very exciting week for me!

Irish Orchid Society Art & Rare Book Raffle Christmas 2024 - Irish Orchid Society The Irish Orchid Society's Art and Rare Book Raffle for Christmas 2024 is now live. Go to the page to purchase a ticket.

The Irish Orchid Society’s Christmas Raffle is now live. We have some rare books and signed botanical prints to win. Tickets are just €5 and it’s available to the public: www.irishorchidsociety.org/art-rare-boo...

Sometimes the anticipation is the key! Waiting on the #orchids to bloom is a full time occupation.