San Gabriel Valley Cactus and Succulent Society
Join us for our July 11th SGVCSS meeting:
Our Speaker is Ernesto Sandoval
Program: Growing Succulents: What Have We Learned?
Our meeting starts at 7:30 pm in Ayres Hall of the LA Arboretum
Bio: 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 ecplains and interprets the world of plants to amateur and professional gardeners.
Desert plants are his particular passion within his general passion for plants. He 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,
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 in Horticulture and Agronomy at UC Davis..
Program: Growing Succulents: What Have We Learned?
Ernesto has been learning, testing. observing. and researching how to growsucculents for nearly 40 years. What are some important things he has learned about growing succulents? What has been helpful to be a more informed grower?
What remains to be leamed … and researched? As always, he’ll frame his lecture with information to help us all better grow our plants as well as understand why we can and should “manage” their growth.
In preparation, he encourages you to think about some plant challenges you might be having and to look up where your plants are from!
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