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November Meeting

November Meeting
Casa del Prado, Room 104
​Nov. 13th, 10:00 am
featured speaker, club news & show featured speaker, club news & show and tell

On Saturday the 13th, our featured speaker was ​Jeff Moore of Solana Succulents.

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Jeff is also the author of books on Aloes, Agaves, and both soft and spiny succulents. A real treat for us will be a presentation that will inspire us to mix spiny garden plants into our bromeliad gardens.

Jeff had his books, cacti and succulents for purchase at the meeting.

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Jeff's description of his talk:
I will discuss and show images of how those of us that are primarily succulent enthusiasts incorporate bromeliads into our gardens/collections. I will admit right up front to your group that most of them know their bromeliads in more detail than I do, but like most succulent enthusiasts, my bromeliad focus has always been on the very durable and almost cactus-like terrestrials: Dyckias, Hechtias, Puyas, followed by some of the most forgiving Aechmeas. But over time I (we) have learned to incorporate some of the more 'tropical' broms into our yards after realizing that, at least within the coastal zone, they tolerate sun and neglect as well as most succulents. I will show examples of succulent gardens that incorporate broms, show examples nice color contrasts, flowers, and even outliers that we collect such as tillandsias. Of course there will be some examples of just straight succulents to highlight that they can have the same ornamental appeal as your favorite plants.
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Auction Plants
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this month are imported Hawaiian beauties from Royanne Shiigi.
('Snows of Mauna Kea' x 'Misao') x ('Ku'ulea' x 'Mauna Kea' pink)
'Big Island Passion' 
​'Hawaiian Ruby' x 'Patrice F2'  

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A spread Jeff Moore's book Spiny Succulents with closeups of Dyckias and Hechtias.

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Bromelia balansae  --- Heart of Flame
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