NOTE: THIS IS A DIFFERENT LOCATION FOR JUNE!
Fred Hesse Jr. Community Park
McTaggart Hall  [map]

Mini-Show Plants for June:
Cactus: Opuntia, Tephrocactus, Cylindropuntia, Austrocylindropuntia
Succulent: Euphorbia (not from Madagascar)

Presentation

Ernesto Sandoval has grown South African bulbs and geophytes for many years, both professionally and privately.  He will share some of his experiences with this beautiful and diverse set of plants, emphasizing propagation and cultivation.  Mostly, through the use of gorgeous photos, he wants to convince us to grow more of these fascinating plants in our gardens with little effort (free winter rainfall) to bring a little more color into our gardens during the winter months!

Ernesto will have bulbs and other succulents available for sale!

Biography

Ernesto Sandoval has been pondering and seeking answers to the question of 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, from amateur to professional gardeners. He regularly lectures to various Western Garden Clubs and 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.

Ernesto holds a degree from UC Davis in Botany and progressed in his work from student weeder/waterer to Director over the last 30 years at the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory. He is now a Graduate Student getting his Masters (actually skipping to a PhD) in Horticulture and Agronomy at UC Davis with a focus on the propagation and cultivation of drought adapted plants.