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2010 Speakers |
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Hermine and Roger Stover will be speaking about sanseverias and their
taxonomy. Hermine started growing plants on her window sill and fire
escape as a little girl in Brooklyn. In 1975, she created a tropical
growing chamber in the basement of their home in Boston. She started a
mail-order business growing and selling her own home-grown palms, ferns
and succulents. In 1979, she discovered bamboo and they moved their
nursery to California. The name of their nursery is 'Endangered Species'.
Our own Eunice Thompson will talk about her recent travels in Europe with special emphasis on cactus hobbies
in the UK and Europe. Although Eunice admits she can grow native weeds better than cacti or succulents, she promises
to show us how the Europeans grow theirs so exquisitely. Let's give her a big Valentine's Day welcome for
volunteering to make this presentation on this special day!
Paul Klaassen will present an illustrated program regarding his very
recent travels entitled "What I Saw This Winter - Brazil". Paul
was born in the Netherlands, but has resided in England (near Stonehenge)
since 1953. He will be arriving in Los Angeles from Brazil March 11, 2010,
having left England October 16, 2009. He will have lots of pictures of
Parodias, Frailias, Uebelmannia, Discocactus, Melocactus, Pilosocereus,
Coleocephalocereus, as well as others. Paul's blog website is: 'The
Cactus Diaries' so preview his trip and look forward to an extremely
interesting presentation!
Annual Show & Sale
Woody Minnich will give a slide presentation relating to his very recent
travels to a new area of Brazil entitled "Rio Grande do Sul".
No, this has not been misspelled; it is Portuguese, not Spanish.
Relating to cacti and succulents, this is a largely unexplored region of
Brazil so it should be a very exciting presentation. Woody is always a
great speaker, so let's give him a warm welcome! As always, he will
have plants for sale.
Buck Hemenway and his wife, Yvonne, are enthusiastic growers of
succulents and have turned their one-time-hobby into the Prickly Palace
Nursery which supplies cacti and succulents to the retail nursery trade.
They have traveled to South Africa twice; most recently visiting the
Richtersveld which is a magical place where succulents proliferate in
extreme conditions. Rainfall in that area averages just over two inches a
year and the plants of the region are extremely diversified and
recognizable to all succulent growers. Join us in reviewing their five
wonderful days in Richtersveld.
Our speaker for July will be the renowned Debra Lee Baldwin whose topic
will be "Designing with Succulents." Come and discover how lush
and lovely your water wise garden can be. In a slide presentation
featuring
her award-winning photography, Debra shows how top designers use
geometric, architectural succulents to create low-maintenance, easy-care
gardens and containers. As she introduces colorful succulents that range
from trees to groundcovers, you'll learn how these fleshy-leaved plants
can enhance your landscape or patio garden, based on Debra's bestseller,
Designing with Succulents, and the recently released sequel,
Succulent Container Gardens. Debra has produced hundreds of feature
articles and columns, is a popular guest on garden radio, and has appeared
on national television. Her own garden near San Diego has been featured in
Better Homes & Gardens and other publications. She has toured
with American and European garden celebrities and given presentations at
major botanical gardens and garden shows throughout the US. Debra's latest
book, Succulent Container Gardens, is a January, 2010 release.
(Debra will be available to sign her books prior to her presentation.) She
also authored Designing with Succulents (2007), a Timber Press
bestseller now in its fourth printing with a French translation. Debra is
a regular contributor to The Los Angeles Times and major gardening
magazines, and was the succulent consultant for the latest edition of the
Sunset Western Garden Book. She has earned over 30 awards for her
writing and photography. Learn more at
www.debraleebaldwin.com
and
www.succulentchic.net
Come and listen to her in person and bring your questions!
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