Cactus and Succulent Society of New Mexico

Cactus & Succulent Society of New Mexico is an affiliate of the Cactus and Succulent Society of America.

Meeting Info: Albuquerque Garden Center, 10120 Lomas Blvd, Albuquerque, NM, 3rd Friday, 7:00 pm.

President: Karen Taylor, 515 12th St NW , SE, Albuquerque, NM 87102.
Affiliate Rep: Ralph R Peters, 505-293-6356, RPeters52@gmail.com, 1825 Shirlane NE, Albuquerque NM 87112.

Recent Events
November 21, 2008: A talk was given by Panayoti Kelaidis from the Denver Botanical Garden. He specializes is making outdoor rockeries using hardy succulents and cacti. His real emphasis is discovering new kinds of succulents that will make it outdoors in Denver. He has traveled to South Africa several times exploring in the mountains looking for hardy species. Then he comes home and builds the rockeries. Lots of practical information for hardy enthusiasts.

December 13, 2008: The Annual Holiday Party was Saturday, December 13. Short presentations were made by numerous members.

January 16, 2009: Our speaker Woody Minnich discussed a recent trip to Brazil.

February 20, 2009: Ralph Peters discussed a backpacking trip into the Grand Canyon last April. Many plants were growing and flowering including fields of sego lilies, agaves, opuntias, Echinocereus engelmanii, ....! The scenery is pretty nice too!

March 7,2009: We worked on the CSSNM garden Saturday, March 7 at 9:30 am at the Albuquerque Garden Center.

March 20, 2009 Cacti of the New World: Succulents with Areoles, Their Growth Patterns and Lifestyles
Daniel Finley discussed the habitat (and some cultivated) photos of many succulent plants, especially cacti (endemic to the western hemisphere). Interspersed among the pictures are some discussions about their origins, unusual metabolism, distribution, and lifestyles, as well as Latin names, but no exams.

April 4-5, 2009: The Cactus and Succulent Society of New Mexico had their annual show and sale at the Albuquerque Garden Center 10120 Lomas Blvd. NE on April 4, 2009 and April 5 from 10 am to 4 pm. Lots of good show plants and a selection of cacti and succulents were for sale including locally grown hardy species

May 15, 2009 Jane Fencl spoke on her research trip to Costa Rica. While in Costa Rica they compared the diversity of amphibians and reptiles today with research done 40 years ago. Lots of pictures were shown from their nature hikes.

Upcoming Events
June 19th, 2009 at 7 pm Spring in South Africa
Steve Brack will discuss his trip to South Africa in August 2008. Because of good rains, masses of wild flowers covered the landscape. There will be lots of photos of succulents in flower and large areas of the veldt in full flower. It was quite a trip. It was often very cold, but beautiful. Several waterfalls were seen, with the streams filled in with bulbs. A board meeting will be held at 6 pm, before the general meeting.

July - No meeting!

August 21, 2009 Planning for the State Fair display....

Plant information may be found here.
Club information may be found here.

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