NOTE: The May meeting is in classroom B, not the auditorium, space is at a premium. PRESENTER FOR MAY IS:  Ernesto Sandoval - "Aloes". Cactus of the Month: Mammillaria (clumping). Succulent of the Month: Euphorbia (African, not from Madagascar). Aloe has a long ethnobotanical and medicinal history around world. Ernesto will look at the family…

NOTE: This meeting is on the third Sunday. PRESENTER FOR JUNE IS:  Gary Duke - "Bolivia - Part I". Cactus of the Month: Opuntia, Tephrocactus. Succulent of the Month: Cissus, Cyphostemma. Gary describes his travel with Guillermo Rivera through the Bolivian altoplano via La Paz, Cochabamba, Sucre, Potosi, Carmago to Tarija. He has pictures of over…

PRESENTER FOR JULY IS; Keith Taylor - "Pots and a Different Approach to Staging".

PRESENTER FOR AUGUST IS: Woody Minnich - "Socotra". Woody Minnich will present slides of his trip to Socotra, a place many of us will never have the chance to see.  We will discover that many plants in our own collections come from this remote island, south of Yemen in the Arabian Sea. Woody is an excellent…

PRESENTER FOR SEPTEMBER IS: Gunnar Eisel – “Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder: Our Wonderful and Weird Hobby”

PRESENTER FOR OCTOBER IS:  Tom Glavich - "Euphorbias, A Survey and How to Grow Them".

PRESENTER FOR NOVEMBER IS:  Ernesto Sandoval - "Propagation of Cacti and Succulents". Ernesto describes soil mixes, watering, fertilization and how to grow our favorite plants from seed.

December 10th, from Noon to 2 PM Our annual Holiday Pot Luck will be held on Sunday, December 10th, our usual meeting date. The start time is noon. We will be in the auditorium. We will start set-up at 10:00 AM. Anyone with a flair for decorating or arms to help with table and chair…

PRESENTER FOR JANUARY IS: Marcia Tatroe – “Rockin’ with Cacti and Succulents“.

PRESENTER FOR FEBRUARY IS: Greg Krehel, - "Freaky Flowers: Echinopsis Flowers in Bloom"

PRESENTER FOR MARCH IS:  Jeff Moore - "Soft Succulents"

PRESENTER FOR MAY IS: Brian Gold – “Name that Plant & Name that Flower” or “Que es la Planta y Que es la Flor” – a game or quiz type lecture.

Rob Roy MacGregor – “Alternative Ways to Propagate Cacti and Succulents”

Presenter for July is:  Ernesto Sandoval ­ "Propagation of Cacti and Succulents – Part 2".

PRESENTER FOR AUGUST:  Woody Minnich - "The New, Rare and Seldom seen Cacti and Succulents of Mexico"

PRESENTER FOR SEPTEMBER IS:    Peter Breslin

PRESENTER: Gary Duke “What Kind of Cactus Is It?”

PRESENTER FOR NOVEMBER IS:  Tom Glavich - "Pelargoniums of Southern Africa"

Our annual Holiday Pot Luck will be held on Sunday, December 9th, our usual meeting date. The festivities will start at noon in the Auditorium. We will start set-up at 10:30 AM. Anyone with a flair for decorating or arms to help with table and chair set up is encouraged to come early. Phyllis DeCrescenzo…

PRESENTER FOR January IS:  Laurel Woodley  "Discovering Plant Taxonomy"

PRESENTER FOR FEBRUARY IS: Guillermo Rivera – “Argentina and Chile”

PRESENTER FOR MARCH IS:  Rob Skillin - "Kenya, Land of Tropical Succulents"

PRESENTER FOR MAY IS: Ernesto Sandoval - "Forms and Functions of Cacti and succulents Inside and Out along with other Desert Dwellers!"

PRESENTER FOR JUNE IS: Gary Duke – “Landscaping and Micro-Climates for Small Yards”

PRESENTER FOR JULY IS:  Attila Kapitany - "Botanical Gardens of Australia Tour" – featuring highlights and interesting surprises through a cactus and succulent collector’s eyes.

Cactus of the Month: Epithelantha, Frailea, Aztekium Succulent of the Month: Dyckia, Hechtia, Puya PRESENTER FOR AUGUST IS: Woody Minnich - "20 Years in the Atacama, Land of the Copiapoas" Similar to the coast of Namibia, the coastal and inland regions of northern Chile, known as the Atacama, is mainly watered by amazing fogs, “the…

Cactus of the Month: Variegated cactus Succulent of the Month: Variegated succulent PRESENTER FOR SEPTEMBER IS:   Tom Glavich - "The High Drakensbergs" Tom will talk about a trip he took to the high Drakensberg's, a mountain chain in the East Central region of South Africa.  Most of the trip was centered on the high-altitude country…

PRESENTER FOR OCTOBER IS:  Gunnar Eisel _ "Astrophytum Revisited". Following the meeting will be Gary Duke's Seed Propagation Workshop for those who signed up.

Cactus of the Month: South American columnar cactus (Espostoa, Oreocereus, Cleistocactus, etc.) Succulent of the Month: Pelargonium, Sarcocaulon, Tylecodon PRESENTER FOR NOVEMBER IS:  John Martinez & Nils Schirrmacher - Dudleya: Succulent Diversity in Our Own Backyard" Our local mountains are home to a plentiful and varied assortment of Dudleya. Each of the 11 species and…

PRESENTER FOR JANUARY IS: Jeff Moore – “2019 SPINY SUCCULENTS: Euphorbias, Cacti, and Other Sculptural Succulents and (Mostly) Spiny Xerophytic Plants”

PRESENTER FOR MARCH IS:  Woody Minnich - "Cactus and Succulent Conservation Around the World"

PRESENTER FOR MAY IS:  Russel Ray –“Nature’s Geometry Succulents”

Cactus of the Month: Melocactus Succulent of the Month: Bromeliaceae (other than Tillandsia) Meeting will be held via Zoom invitation. Members to submit Mini Show photos by July 20Speaker via Zoom is Gary Duke, speaking on "NW Argentina - Places and Plants".  Gary shows 26 cacti genera and 14 succulent genera, to include many species…

Jackson Burkholder will present a program via Zoom entitled, “The Botany of Cacti: An Introduction”.

PRESENTER FOR SEPTEMBER IS: Gunnar Eisel - “The Folklore, Enchantment, and Evolution of the C&S Hobby from 1894 to the present day”.

PRESENTER FOR OCTOBER IS: Tom Glavich - "Exploring Gasteria including Cultivars and Hybrids"

PRESENTER FOR NOVEMBER IS:  Stephen McCabe  "Cliff hangers and Flatlanders: Dudleya on the Edge"

PRESENTER FOR JANUARY:  Brian Kemble - "History of the Ruth Bancroft Garden".

Presenter for February is Guillermo Rivera – “Cactus diversity in northwestern Argentina:  a habitat approach”

PRESENTER FOR MARCH:  Gary Duke - "Chile - Land of the Ancients"

PRESENTER FOR APRIL IS : Karen Ostler – “Staging”

PRESENTER FOR May:  Laurel Woodley:  Getting to Know Kalanchoes.

The Presenter is:  Ernesto Sandoval – “Succulents: Liberated or Constrained in Containers?”

The Presenter is:  Jeff Moore -  "Agaves: Species, Cultivars & Hybrids".

The Presenter is:  Rod Haenni- “Growing Cacti and Succulents from Seed”

PRESENTER: Joe Stead 'Propagate it! Then put it in the ground'.
Cactus of the Month: North American Columnar Cacti (Saguaro, Cereus, etc.)
Succulent of the Month: Senecio (including Caputia, Curio, and Kleinia)

PRESENTER: John Trager - "Time for Taiwan"

PRESENTER: Kelly Griffin - “Oaxaca meanderings in search of succulents, plants, adventure and fun”.

Presenter: Jackson Burkholder: Sulcorebutia: A Virtual Tour through Bolivia

Presenter: Woody Minnich “The Cacti and Succulents of New Mexico”
Evidence of Covid vaccination required to attend the SCCSS Club meeting. Bring your vaccine card, as we will be checking at the door. No admission without evidence of vaccination.

Stefan Burger:"Copiapoa 2022"

PRESENTER FOR July:  Gary Duke:  “Northern Argentina” – (12 Nov – 26 Nov 2021).

PRESENTER: Ernesto Sandoval:  “Feeding Succulents: How Fertilizer, Water pH and Soil Can and Should Be Adjusted!”

PRESENTER FOR September: Steven Frieze: "Adventures in Namaqualand: The Beauty and Exotic Quality of South African Succulents"

PRESENTER FOR OCTOBER IS: Paul T. Isley III "Tillandsias"

PRESENTER FOR NOVEMBER:  Kelly Griffin: "Now and then.  An update on the Yemen island of Socotra."

Members and guests only: Our first Holiday gathering in 3 years will be held on Sunday, December 11th. We are celebrating our 50th year!  The festivities will start at 1PM in the Auditorium. Awards will be given for the top winners of the Mini Show for the year.  Please also bring your 2022 “Annual Plant”,…

Presenter: Dylan Hannon "Othonnas for the Collector"

PRESENTER FOR February:  John Trager "Huntington Happenings"

PRESENTER FOR March:  Jerry Robinson "Bromeliads for the Home and Garden"

PRESENTER FOR May: Duke Benadon "Baja California-End to End". Note: THIS IS THE 3rd SUNDAY OF THE MONTH.

PRESENTER FOR JUNE:  Ron Kaufmann "Life on the Rocks: The world of Rupicolous Orchids"

PRESENTER FOR July:  Kelly Griffin: "Aloe Hybrids"

PRESENTER IS:  Russel Ray –“Nature’s Geometry: Succulents”

PRESENTER FOR SEPTEMBER: Peter Walkowiak: Soil and Staging Workshop

PRESENTER FOR OCTOBER: Jim Gardner "Fascinating succulent flora of the Canary Islands"

PRESENTER FOR NOVEMBER: Steven Frieze "Oaxaca, Mexico"

South Coast C&SS Holiday Gathering 2023-Potluck!!!

PRESENTER FOR FEBRUARY: Gary Duke "Chile: More Than Copiapoas"

PRESENTER FOR MARCH: Steven Frieze "Journey to Brazil"