South Coast C&SS monthly meeting -January 2025
2025-01-12 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST
Mini-Show Cactus for January: Mammillaria & Cochemiea, single-headed
Mini-Show Succulent for January: Pelargonium, Sarcocaulon, Tylecodon
PRESENTER FOR JANUARY: Ernesto Sandoval “A Natural History of Baja California:A Photographic Journey”
Free for South Coast Botanic Garden and SCCSS members. Non-member guests will require reserved General Admission tickets ($15 adults; $11 seniors, $11 students)
Tickets can be purchased at scbgf.org
A Natural History of Baja California:A Photographic Journey
Ernesto has traveled to the Baja California Peninsula over 15 times, since 1995 over Winter and Spring Breaks. As a photographer, this is one of his favorite lectures because he’s amassed a visually enticing collection of photographs from one of his favorite deserts. Boojum, Cardon, and other cacti such as the creeping devil and velvet cactus, Elephant trees, Agave, and Dudleya are featured along with succulents such as Pedilanthus macropcarus. This particular version of the Sonoran Desert features visually stunning landscapes such as the Cataviña boulder field along with a few fog belts where Tillandsia recurvata, ball moss, can be seen growing on succulents & Montevideo Canyon with a Cardon Forest. As always, he’ll throw in tidbits of horticultural information. He hopes you’ll be inspired to visit what is probably the most lush desert in the world!
Ernesto Sandoval
Ernesto Sandoval has been wondering and seeking questions and answers to why plants grow and look the way they do for nearly 40 years. Now he explains and interprets the world of plants to a variety of ages and from amateur to professional gardeners. He regularly lectures to various Western Garden Clubs throughout the year, particularly to succulent clubs throughout California. Desert plants are his particular passion within his general passion for plants. He describes himself as a “Jose of All Plants, Master of None” and loves learning from the experiences and passions of others and his own. Ernesto thoroughly enjoys helping others, particularly gardeners, understand why and how plants do what they do.
When he was about 13 he asked his dad why one tree was pruned a particular way and another tree another way. His dad answered bluntly “Because that’s how you do it.” Since then he’s been learning and teaching himself the answers to those and many other questions by getting a degree at UC Davis in Botany and working from student weeder/waterer to Director over the last 30 years at the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, and now as a Graduate Student getting his Masters (maybe a PhD??) in Horticulture and Agronomy at UC Davis.
When he was about 13 he asked his dad why one tree was pruned a particular way and another tree another way. His dad answered bluntly “Because that’s how you do it.” Since then he’s been learning and teaching himself the answers to those and many other questions by getting a degree at UC Davis in Botany and working from student weeder/waterer to Director over the last 30 years at the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, and now as a Graduate Student getting his Masters (maybe a PhD??) in Horticulture and Agronomy at UC Davis.