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March 2010
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!
February 2010
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!
January 2010
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'.
December 2009
Holiday Party
November 2009
Laurel Woodley - 2009 CSSA Convention
October 2009
Our guest speakers for October are Julia Etter and Martin Kristen. Their talk is titled "Mexico: Off the Beaten Path."
This is more or less a wild ride through almost all of Mexico with pictures of cacti, other succulents and landscapes.
Since 1997 they have been traveling around the US Southwest and Mexico in their Unimog expedition truck named "PocoLoco"
which means "a little bit crazy". Their specialties are Agavaceae and Crassulaceae but they also love all kinds of other plan.
They are working on several projects such as a botanical database and a design of an agave garden for a new tequila factory in Mexico.
Their photographs have appeared in several books and articles of cactus journals. For more info, please visit their websites:
www.globetrotters.ch
www.agavaceae.com
www.crassulaceae.com
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