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Next Club Meeting: June 11

Ayres Hall of the LA Arboretum: 7:30 PM. 
Doors open at 6:00 PM 

Plants of the Month are: Trichocereus, Echinopsis

 

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Workshop: June 17th
Palm Classroom of the LA Arborertum

7:30 PM.  

Doors open at 6:00 PM
Topic: Adenium AdeniumAdenm

June Speaker: Mark Fryer:
A View From The Bench

Mark will discuss and present some of the processes that help ensure reliably consistent plants, and how those processes can be translated into even the smallest windowsill collections. Mark also enjoys hybridizing and selecting numerous cactus species and cultivars. Mark’s presentation is on growing cacti and succulent plants from seed to flower, and back again. 

Mark Fryer is the Cactus Production Manager at Western Cactus in Vista, California. Previously, he worked at C&J Cactus Nursery in Vista as a lead propagator. 


Before moving to Southern California in 2000, Mark spent a couple of decades as a dedicated hobbyist in Oregon, building a reference collection of Echinocereus and Opuntia and working occasionally with Rare Plant Research, the Oregon Cactus and Succulent Society, and various horticultural organizations dating back to the early 1980s. 


Mark is currently a Fellow of the San Diego Cactus and Succulent Society, where he served two terms as President, and he is a Life Member of the CSSA. 



59th Annual CSSA Show & Sale Growing the Future

Hundreds of award-winning specimen plants will be on view as the Cactus & Succulent Society of America presents its 59th Annual Show and Sale.

Dozens of vendors will sell ethically propagated rare plants, many not widely available elsewhere.

Reserve Huntington Admission

Open to the public with paid Huntington admission or Huntington membership. Advanced online timed-entry tickets to The Huntington are required for all visitors, including CSSA and Huntington members.

Limited Daily Capacity
Huntington Reservations Required
No Walk-ins

                      Workshop Schedule

Saturday

11:00 to 11:30 AM
Tim Harvey
Cyphostemma: The Grapes of Wrath

1:00 to 1:30 PM
John Martinez
Pruning Your VERY Prickly Plants

3:00 to 3:30 PM
John Trager
What it Takes to be a Winner

Sunday

11:00 to 11:30 AM
Tom Glavich
Joys of Germination: Growing From Seeds

1:00 to 1:30 PM
Cole James
Hand-Building Pots with Personality

3:00 to 3:30 PM
John Trager
What it Takes to be a Winner