Join us on the optional bus excursion & dinner !

We still have space as of 5/16.
By Nancy Groves
WBC Affiliate Host Committee Co-Chair

​Editor's Note: The event date is getting closer. Don't wait to register for the Bus Excursion, as seats are limited. Cost per person is $80 to be paid at conference by check or cash, if space is available. Bus space is limited, but we still have space as of 5/16.
A preview of our conference tours will heighten your expectations! The Optional Bus Excursion on Thursday is, a DO NOT MISS experience, with garden tours followed by a catered dinner at the San Diego Botanic Garden. In order to optimize the amount of time at each garden and avoid traffic, the optional excursion to north San Diego County destinations is planned for Thursday. The luxury buses will take you to diverse, wonderful gardens. To build the suspense, I am not going to tell you the names of the members who are opening their gardens to you. Suffice it to say they are enchanted gardens. One garden has thousands of Tillandsias, Billbergias, and other bromeliads in a shade house. More bromeliads, succulents and rare fruit trees grow in the landscape. The owners are perfectionists with a great knowledge of each plant and how it is best grown.

A second informal garden has an emphasis on terrestrials: Hectias, Dyckias, Bromelias, Puyas and cycads in a meandering seemingly never-ending landscape. This garden also has a shade area, a koi pond, chickens, and lots of stories to go with each plant -- where it came from or who hybridized it. The stories are as wonderful as the plants.

Our final destination, the 42-acre San Diego Botanic Garden (formerly known as Quail Botanical Garden) will wow you with its nearly 3,000 varieties of tropical, subtropical, and California native plants.

This fantastic bus excursion with catered dinner is the San Diego Bromeliad Society’s welcome to fellow bromeliad lovers. We’ll share approximately 8-hours together, door-to-door. Welcome to our wonderful climate in Southern California where we grow bromeliads outside year-round. The entertainment and information dispensed is free; however, the buses and food must be paid for, hence the $60 charge for the tour, catered dinner and entrance fee to the San Diego Botanic Garden. Please sign up for the tour on the BSI website under Conference Corner, Optional Bus Excursion.

Join us for the Fiesta de las Bromelias WBC Optional Bus Excursion, which I am sure, will fulfill your expectations! ¡Hasta luego! in San Diego!
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one of many views in the garden

Don’t wait to register.
Space on the bus excursion & dinner at San Diego Botanical Garden is limited.

The cost of the bus excursion is not included in the registration fee. To join us on the optional bus excursion, fill-out the web page on bsi.org (per the link below). As it is so soon, don’t print the PDF form for mailing. Rather, payment may be made by check or cash (for $80 per ticket) at the conference on May 29-30, 2018. BE AWARE THAT ALL PAYMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO AVAILABLE SPACE.