Open Gates A publication of the Gates Cactus & Succulent Society May 2013 NEXT MEETING, WEDNESDAY, May 1, NEW TIME! 7:00 PM AT THE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MUSEUM I- 10 AT CALIFORNIA STREET IN REDLANDS, CA. Sweepstakes Winner April Plants of the Month: Cacti: Best Staged Cactus Succulents: Best Staged Succulent Speaker: Joe Wujcik Plant Staging for Show Learn from the Masters: Show Etiquette Save These Dates: May 4 Gates Spring Home Tour May 17 & 18 Gates Show & Sale Green Faire June 1 & 2 San Diego C&SS Show & Sale June 8 & 9 Los Angeles C&SS Show & Sale From the President: It is that time of year again when the weather warms up and our plants and trees start to vigorously grow. Horticultural oriented activities pick up and our lives get busier. Not only are we busy with our own plants and gardens but plant Shows & Sales are mostly held during summer months and it is a prime time for Home & Garden tours and visits to botanical gardens. Our club calendar is no different and there are a number of interesting activities you might want to work into your own calendar schedule. On Thursday. April 25 th you might want to stop by and visit our club information booth at the Redlands Market Night. There is plenty to see and some good eats and shopping available. Anytime between 7:00 & 9:00pm is good. Saturday May 4 th will be Home Tours terminating in Rob Roy McGregors beautiful backyard with what promises to be a tasty meal. More about this elsewhere in this newsletter and at our next regular meeting. May 17th & 18 th will be our own club annual Show & Sale at the Jurupa Discovery Center. This is the major fund raising event of our club and we depend on it for the bulk of the money that finances our activities throughout the year. It has always been a successful event but it depends on your participation. I hope all of you will pitch in to make this year an even bigger and more successful event than in the past. There is no reason you cannot be one of those who takes home a winners ribbon, trophy plaque or a newly acquired plant that will be next year s winner. Read more about this important event elsewhere in this month s newsletter. Sometime following the upcoming Show & Sale, probably June 1 st, or 2 nd we will have the usual show wrap up meeting to critique and discuss the show. This year we are thinking of having it at the McGrew home and combining it with an open house party for all club members. Of course there will be plenty of Mary Alice s good cooking available if we finalize such a plan. There will be more information about this later. Continued pg. 2 President 909-783-2477 Don McGrew Director 951-836-8680 Rob Mac Gregor e-mail: romero8686@sbcglobal.net Director 909-875-3607 Rene Hernandez Vice President 951-845-7817 Cap Strano Director 909-797-8214 Kim Urman Treasurer 951-369-7180 Karen Roholt Director 909-910-9195 Phuc Huynh Secretary 909-234-4388 Linda McConnell Librarian 951-682-3795 Karen Fleisher Past President 951-235-6678 Mike Green Greeter 951-781-8205 Teresa Wassman Membership 951-369-7180 Karen Roholt Editor 951-360-8802 Buck Hemenway Leadership Team 2013
From the President Con t. Tentative plans for a group visit to Lotus Land in Santa Barbara has not drawn much response, so far, and we will need to make a decision about this event, scheduled for August of this year, soon if we are going to make it happen. If you want to do this visit to Lotus Land you need to signup NOW. I want to thank all those members who responded to my call last month for participation in the volunteer activities that support our club. Things like helping in the kitchen, volunteering with set up and cleanup of our annual Show & Sale site, bringing a nice plant for the raffle table, etc. etc. Speaking of the raffle table, I understand that ticket sales were over $90.00 last month and I believe that is the best ever. Congratulate yourselves. Our club promotional activities, at other peoples events, is ongoing and recently we had a very well visited booth at the Earth Day event sponsored by the Western Regional Water District and, of course, we are committed to continuing participation every month or so at the Redlands Market Night. If you know of any upcoming event where we could participate, with a club information booth, please make me or another board member aware of it. Best Regards, Don McGrew Mini Show results for April 2013 Gymnocalycium Judges Buck Hemenway, and John OKane Novice Small 1 st Linda McConnell Gymnocalycium friedrichii 2 nd Diana Roman Gymnocalycium baldianum, 3 rd Linda McConnell Gymnocalycium Stenoplurum Large 1 st Diana Roman Gymnocalycium pflanzii riograndesis 2 nd Diana Roman Gymnocalycium minhanuihii Intermediate Small 1 st Rob MacGregor Gymnocalycium bruchii 2 nd Rob MacGregor Gymnocalycium vatterii 3 rd Rob MacGregor Gymnocalycium spegazzinii Large 1 st Judy Horne Gymnocalycium saglionis 2 nd Karl D. Osborn Sr. Gymnocalycium saglionis 3 rd Rene Hernandez Gymnocalycium saglionis 3 rd Karl D. Osborn Sr.Gymnocalycium pelanzii Advanced Small 1 st Tony Marino Gymnocalycium marsomeri 2 nd Bob LaughlinGymnocalycium 3 rd Bob LaughlinGymnocalycium megalothebs Large 1 st Tony Marino Gymnocalycium schickemdantzii 2 nd Greg & Anna Cavanaugh Gymnocalycium horstii 2 nd Greg & Anna Cavanaugh Gymnocalycium bruchii 3 rd Kim UrmanGymnocalycium saglionis 3 rd Greg & Anna Cavanaugh Gymnocalycium bayrianum Echeveria Novice Small 1st Linda McConnell Echeveria cv. Doris Taylor Intermediate Small 1 st Rob MacGregor Echeveria cv. Lola 2 nd Lynn Thrane Echeveria cv. Lola 3 rd Roholt Echeveria hybrid Large 1 st Rene Hernandez Echeveria colorata 2 nd Roholt Echeveria agavoides 3 rd Karl D. Osborn Sr Echeveria agavoides. Advanced Small 1 st Joella Olson Echeveria elegans 2 nd Bob Laughlin Echeveria prolifica Large 1 st Tony Marino Echeveria Moondust 2 nd Kim Urman Echeveria Black Prince 3 rd Bob Laughlin Echeveria sp. total entries 41 May Speaker Joe Wujcik Joe will be our speaker in May. He is a master potter, many of us have purchased his beautiful ceramic pots at our sale and at others throughout southern California. Joe is also a long time master exhibitor of specimen plants at C&S shows. He will bring his expertise to us. He wants us to bring our plants that we would like to have staged and he will demonstrate best practices for presenting your show plant at its best for our upcoming Show and Sale. So bring as plant or two and if you already have a pot picked out, bring that too and Joe will demonstrate how and we will all learn a lot more about Staging for Shows. Mini Show Judges for March Don Lyons, Caryl Lyons and Joe Wujcik Kitchen Duty for May 2013 Mary Alice McGrew
HOME TOUR 2013 May 4, 2013 See the Maps and instructions for our 2013 Home Tour 38 th Annual Show & Sale May 17 & 18, 2013 See the article for details CSSA CONVENTION 2015 Committee Meeting Sunday, May, 5 at Gunnar Eisel s home. Tentative date. Will confirm via email and at the meeting on May 1. 2015? June 2015? Isn t that more than 2 years away? Time Flies! The Gates C&SS and San Gabriel Valley C&SS will be co hosts of the CSSA s 36 th Biennial Convention to be held at Pitzer College. This is an opportunity for those of us in the Los Angeles Basin to strut our stuff in front of the C&S World. It will have been 14 years since the LA club last hosted anywhere near here. Please rsvp your intent to participate by phoning 951 360 8802 or email Buckhem@sbcglobal.net. CSSA CONVENTION 2013 It s coming up soon. June 15 20, 2013 in Austin, TX. Details at http://cssa2013.com World class speaker presentation group. Meet and greet the people who shape our hobby. LEARN FROM THE MASTERS! We re beginning a new educational series for all interested members. Beginning at 7:00PM prior to the start of every meeting, we will be treated to a hands-on learning experience by one of our experienced grower members. The lessons will be short, 10 to 15 minutes. The topics covered will be ones that are frequently asked about and or just plain misunderstood by many of our members. Here are the goals of the organizers: A) To inspire educational drive & knowledge B) To create core group for scientific study C) To create core group for propagating plants for club functions D) To create club seed bank Following are the anticipated topics, but these will be subject to change: January: Soil Mixes July: Growing structures February: Water August: Seed Collecting March: Transplanting September: Salvaging your plant April: Productive pruning October: Winterizing your plants May: Show etiquette November: Accessing your wish list June: Photography/Study We will create a flyer to pass out containing information from that class that may be referred to at a later date. For example : List of Materials, Lists of Suppliers, Lists of References. 2013 Plants of the Month CACTI SUCCULENTS May Best Staged Cactus Best Staged Succulent June Echinocereus Medusoid Euphorbia July Photograph Photograph August North American Columnars Succulent Bormeliad September Astrophytum Lithops October Ferocactus/Echinocactus Stapeliads Dead Plant November Auction December Christmas Party
CALENDAR OF UP COMING EVENTS FOR 2013 April 28 Huntington Plant Sale 10:30 AM 4:00 PM May 4 Gates Spring Home Tour May 4 & 5 Sunset C&SS Show & Sale 4117 Overland Ave, Culver City CA May 17 & 18 Gates C&SS Show & Sale, Jurupa Mountains Discovery Center, 7621 Granite Hill Dr., Riverside, CA 92509 May 19 Epiphylllum Society of America Show & Sale, LA County Arboretum, 301 N. Baldwin, Arcadia, CA Presale only Sat May 18 9 4 PM May 25 & 26 Central Coast C&SS Show & Sale, 10-4 PM, Ludwick Center, 864 Santa Rosa, San Louis Obispo, CA Info 805-237-2054, www.centralcoastcactus.org June 1 & 2 San Diego C&SS Summer Show & Sale, Balboa Park Rm 101, San Diego June 8 & 9 Los Angeles C&SS Show & Sale, Sepulveda Garden Center, 16633 Magnolia Blvd, Encino, CA Info www.lacss-show.com WHERE TO FIND STUFF Your club library is a fantastic resource for information about the plants in your collection!. Mini Show Judging for 2013 Your Board of Directors has agreed that we try a new system of judging for 2013. It will require that two assistant judges be selected each month to help judge the mini show. There will be a sign up sheet at every meeting until it is filled. You may volunteer to help with the judging on plant genera that interest you, so you may learn more and contribute your knowledge Editor s Note: This is a sampling of what we will create after the Learning from the Masters classes at the beginning of each meeting. This is not the entire document. Look for it on your Gates Web Page www.gatescss.org click on Learn from the Masters: Learn From the Masters Summary Pruning Cacti and other Succulents We will first discuss Productive Pruning. There are also other reasons to prune Cacti and Succulents, and they will be addressed at a later time and then added to this subject summary. Bonsai pruning, overgrown landscape cleaning and cleaning up show plants are possible additions. We all understand that plants, including Cactus & Succulents, can be grown from seed. Experienced growers know that many plants, and especially Cacti, can also be grown from cuttings. And many of us know that the pups or offshoots that form around the perimeter of many succulents can be removed from the mother plant and grown as a separate plant. The methods of selecting or making cuttings for propagation are many and varied. We will probably not be able to cover them all in this summary. For instance, many Agaves when they flower will produce bulbils on the flower stalk. These can simply be removed and planted like a seedling. A number of succulents, such as Senecios, Crassulas, and all Opuntia will reproduce from a single pad/leaf. Often just laying the leaf onto well drained soil will cause it to root and produce a new plant.
GATES CACTUS & SUCCULENT SOCIETY Members Home Tour February 25, 2012 Buck s Cell Phone 951-360-8802 Meet at Buck & Yvonne Hemenway s at 9:30 AM 951-360-8802 Traveling east on Hiway 60, exit at Valley Way. Turn left (south) on Valley Way to Jurupa Rd. Turn right on Jurupa to Camino Real. Turn left on Camino Real to Lakeside. Turn right on Lakeside to Grinnell, turn left to the Hemenways. Arrive at Karen Fleisher s at about 11:00 AM, 3729 Oakwood Pl., Riverside, CA 951-682-3795 From Hemenway s turn left on Lakeside to Clay. Turn left on Clay, across Limonite to Van Buren. Turn left on Van Buren to Jurupa Ave. Turn left on Jurupa Ave to Magnolia. Turn left on Magnolia to Oakwood, turn right to Karen s.
GATES CACTUS & SUCCULENT SOCIETY Members Home Tour May 4, 2013 Final stop, Rob and Belinda Mac Gregors. Plan to arrive at about 12:30. 951-836-8680 Well Rd, and left onto Lazy Circle J. Lunch at MacGregors, Rob s cooking. From Karen s return to Magnolia and turn right. Travel though downtown Riverside. Magnolia changes names to Market St. Turn left off of Market at Faimont Park onto Dexter Dr. There are two turns, use the Dexter Dr. turn. Once on Dexter turn immediate right into Fairmont Park. Follow the road around to the right until you can turn right onto Bubbling
PREPARING FOR OUR SHOW & SALE This is as brief schedule of events for everyone to look at and be ready for: o Wednesday, May 15 1:00PM Begin Set up, Set Up Sales area. o Thursday, May 16 AM- Set up Showroom, PM Finish setting up Sales area. Members begin to bring plants from 12:00 noon. Vendors bring plants from 12:00 noon. o Friday May 17 Sales open at 9:00 AM, Members bring Show Plants from 9:00 until 4:30. 5:00 PM, Judges Dinner, 6:00PM, Judging begins o Saturday May 18 Sales open at 9:00AM, Pot Luck Lunch on Saturday only, from 11:30 or so. o Saturday Show open at 9:00AM. 4:30 - everything closes, members can remove plants. o Sunday, May 20 Clean up from 9:00AM until about 12:00noon. What to do, Where and How to do it 1. Show Schedules and Entry Tags will be available at the May 1 st meeting as well as at the Show. The schedule is on the club s web site at www.gatescss.org. 2. There will be a demonstration at the meeting about how to fill out the tags 3. The Show competition is in three classes. Novice, Intermediate and Advanced. Entry tags are color coded for each class. 4. Exhibitors may enter plants from noon on Thursday til 7:00 PM and all day Friday until 4:30 PM when entries will be closed so the committee can finish the display for judging. 5. We need Raffle Plants. This is an important part of the S&S. Please help by bringing one or two nice plants. 6. All members are encouraged spend as much time as possible at the event, particularly on Saturday. The lunch is always a terrific function. The club furnishes sandwich fixings and we all bring side dishes and desserts. 7. We need help setting up and tearing down. Sign-up sheets will be at the meeting. WE NEED YOUR HELP! Wednesday May 15 1:00 til 4:00 PM Set up, Sales area and Show room Thursday May 16 9:00 til 12:00 noon Finish set up of Show room Friday May 17 8:00 til 4:30 Help at the following places needed Cashier and help checking out See Yvonne Showroom Helping member find the places for their plants See Kim Sales Area manning the Kids table Judging, clerking Raffle and Wheel of Fortune - See Helen and Kim Saturday May 18 8:00 til 4:30 - Help in the following areas Cashier etc. See Yvonne Showroom Help all day with questions Sales area manning the Kids Table Kitchen help Helen Sunday May 19 9:00 til 11:00 Tear Down and Cean Up
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