There will be major roadworks on the A382 starting 25th September 2025 with a road closure and diversion affecting anyone trying to get to the nursery from Newton Abbot (A38/Bovey Tracey direction will be unaffected). Sara says she hopes that everyone will still be able to come to the nursery during this time and find a way around the diversions. It will just mean allowing a little extra time for your journeys.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY 2026: see Homepage for further details
Thank you to everyone concerned for putting on yet another super show at our new venue in Exeter in May. Thank you also to those society members who provided plants for the Devon display and who supported the show on the day and, as ever, to those societies and trade taking part on the day.
Devon Orchid Society will be taking part at the International Orchid Show at Gardeners World Live, at the NEC, Birmingham in June. See the Society’s facebook and other social media sites for more detail.
Our next event will be on Sunday, 14th June – a talk by Phillip Seaton on Saving Orchids (signed copies of his book priced at £20 and possibility of seedlings for sale).
24th March – RHS Award Ceremony
Congratulations to Sara Rittershausen, our Society president, on being made an Associate of Honour of the RHS at an award ceremony in London in March 2026 in recognition of her distinguished service to the practice of horticulture during her working career. The Associate of Honour is held for life and Sara is one of only 100 recipients able at any one time to hold this prestigious award. Congratulation too to Nursery Manager, Arthur Bell on the award of the Westonbirt Orchid Medal in recognition of his life-long contribution to orchids during his 50 years of working for Burnham Nurseries.
