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Bromelcairns Bromelcairns Bimonthly Newsletter of Cairns Bromeliad Societ Inc. 2013 # 6 P.O. Box 28 Cairns Queensland 4870 Austalia President Bob Hudson 0740533913 V-President Karen Stevens 0740361086 Secretary Lynn Hudson 0740533913 Treasurer Dave Weston 0740578604 Librarian Sharron Miller 0740322283 Editor Lynn Hudson 0740533913 Editor Assist. Gail Taifalos 0740392787 Member Concierge Nalda Wilson 0740544825 Popular Vote Steward Karen Cross 0740545497 OIC Raffles Lesley Hepburn 0488788892 Honorary Life Member - Grace Goode O.A.M. Honorary Life Member - Kay Edington Life Member - Lynn Hudson Life Member - Robert (Bob) Hudson ******************************************************************** Aims of the Society Promote and Develop Interest in Bromeliads through Friendship To Co-operate with similar Clubs throughout the World ******************************************************************** Membership Fee: $15 Single, $25 Family, Country Member $25. $7.50 junior (if not in family membership) Meetings start at 1.pm sharp first Saturday of the month. Please bring a cup and a chair. Library: All books & magazines borrowed are to be returned in good order to the following meeting. If not on wait list, they may be rebooked. Plant Display/Sales: To participate, a member must be financial and circumstances permitting, have attended at least three meetings in the past six months. Where the society is charged a stall fee - 20% of sales are deducted for club funds. No charge venue & meetings - 10% of sales is deducted. All plants to be clean, free of disease, named and price tagged. Show Plants: Must be the property of and in the custody of the entrant for the past three months. For Society Shows the entrant must be financial and have attended at least three meetings during the past six months. Pens, Plant Tags & Pots: available at each meeting. If reprinting article, wholly or in part, please acknowledge Author & Newsletter. Any article &/or Bromelcairns will be Emailed on request to [email protected] or [email protected] Previous issues are on my website www.bromeliadsdownunder.com.au Club Actvites & Around te Members < Fernhouse & one patio wall ^ NOVEMBER: by President Bob “We met at Karen and Brian’s garden amidst a variety of plants, parrots, quail & chooks. Karen joined our Society in 2000 and has steadily amassed a good variety of species and hybrids both of Bromeliaceae and Tillandsioideae. I think Karen is leaning more to growing tillandsia than other bromeliads - that is next after her birds! Karen is a good Society member, she is currently Minutes Secretary and always enters plants in our Popular Vote and Mini Show sections, contributing to and selling raffle tickets.” MINI SHOW – Dyckia & Orthophytum 1st Dyckia ‘Katherine’ – Dave Weston!! ! ! !! ! ! 2nd Dyckia leptostachya – Paul Venturi 1st. Orthophytum ‘Warren Loose’ – Gloria Wegner >> 2nd. Orthophytum ‘Starlight’ – Frances Boyd 3rd. Orthophytum navioides – Dave Weston : 1st Neoregelia ‘Dorothy’ - Steven French 2nd. Orthophytum vagans varieg. - Christel Venturi ! 1st Tillandsia velutin x fasciculata – Jo & Mark Pritchard! 2nd..Tillandsia streptophylla – Jo & Mark Pritchard 2nd..Tillandsia fasciculata var hondurensis!-Jo & Mark Pritchard!! 1st Vriesea fenestralis – Bernice Mark 2nd. Neoregelia ‘Can Can’ – Lesley Hepburn 3rd. Neoregelia ‘Chirripo’ - Bernice Mark 3rd. Dyckia ‘Yellow Glow’ – Dave Weston! 1st Cryptanthus ‘Volcano’ – Dave Weston 2nd Cryptanthus ‘Margaret’ – Lynn Hudson 3rd Cryptanthus ‘Elaine’ – Karen Stevens 1st Tillandsia ‘Curly Slim’ – Sharron Millar >>>>>>>>>>! nd.. 2 Tillandsia caput-medusae hybrid - Bob Hudson A small part of Karen’s backyard Epiphytic planting of Till. ‘Roma’ & Ae.‘Bert’ ************************************************** November Plants - WOW! We certainly had some eye candy. The Mini show was Orthophytums & Dyckias and I was pleased they were separate sections and Greg Oldano judged them! Multiple specimen orthophytums were very well grown - healthy and with good colour. Gloria is renowned for her overflowing Ortho. ‘Warren Loose’ as on page 2 and Francis showed us she can do it too. Both excellent. Dave showed a perfect navioides that just pipped Christel’s clump of variegated Ortho. vagans - an eyecatcher with good colour - it is not easy to grow unless you give it enough water. It scored 7votes against Steven’s 16 for Neo. ‘Dorothy’ in Popular Vote! [page 6] Well done both of you. O. ‘Starlight’ [had another head but it wouldn’t fit!] Orthophytum vagans Dyckias - the vicious but beautiful dyckias, Dave just adores them and grows them very well. He showed ‘Katherine’ a beautiful silver scurfed unnamed seedling that he bought in Katherine N.T. Paul showed a nice leptostachya. Dave also brought in ‘Yellow Glow’ and the very interesting species estevesii. Most dyckias have yellow or orange bell shaped flowers, estevesii flowers are shaped more like fosterella flowers. Dyckias grow in round circles, estevesii grows flat centered! Dyckia ‘Katherine‘ Dyckia estevesii Dyckia ‘Yellow Glow’ It’s all about Plants & Friendship. November continued.. *New Members: Welcome to Joanne & Mark Pritchard. Mark says they know a lot about tillandsias but little about other bromeliads, so he has come to the right place! The accrued knowledge in our small group is amazing and members are willing to share. * Jo & Mark showed three tillandsias and you can see the high quality of their entries. Tillandsias [velutina x fasciculata] streptophylla [fasciculata var. hondurensis] There was a feast of well grown tillandsias but Sharron blitzed them with ‘Curly Slim’, it was perfectly grown and presented pictured on page 2. Well done Sharron. Bob showed showed a caput medusae hybrid and Dave fasciculata clavispica. On show was a profusion of colour, tillandsias, neoregelias, orthophytums, vrieseas, dyckias and cryptanthus. It mixed well with Karen’s bright garden, ornaments and birds. Bernice proudly showed a well marked fenestralis, to win the Open section, with Lesley’s bright Neo.‘Can Can’ 2nd. and a tie for 3rd. with Dave’s Dyckia ‘Yellow Glow’ and Bernice’s Neo. ‘Chirripo’. Then there were six excellent cryptanthus and Dave won with a very dark beautiful Cryptanthus ‘Volcano‘ he received from Doug cross last ‘Bloomin Broms’. Tillandsia fasciculata clavispica Neoregelia ‘Dorothy‘ Vriesea fenestralis As we move into a new year, 2014, I hope members will keep their high standard and bring plants in to show and plants with problems we can help sort out together. Shoppers were amazed at the standard of our sale plants last Saturday - let’s keep them amazed! Just a little more attention and bromeliads just come tops! !!!!!! !!!!! !! ! ! ! ! !!!!!!! A Bromeliad Society Meeting !!!! from the perspective of new member - Janie O’Brien It was easy to see which house was our host for this, our second only meeting. The front garden was planted with a colourful array of large Aechmea blanchetianas including lime green, gold, orange and red which really took my eye. Being an artist, colour has always been a prominent factor in my life and a bright lime cultivar of Ae. blanchetiana was one of the first bromeliads in my collection. It was purchased a number of years ago at a Mossman plant sale day. I bought three rather big plants that day - another was Ae. mariae-reginae and when it first flowered, had me in awe of its beauty. Lastly, a vreisea - the name of which is long gone but I purchased it for its incredible markings which reminded me of a wild animal. I still have those original plants and their offspring and it’s them that rekindled my fascination and passion for broms. Back to meeting - hubby Rodney and I entered into the large back patio area of our host Karen, where the bamboo surrounds of the grotto like patio are covered in so many tillandsias of various shapes and sizes - I could spend hours looking at. Then something else caught my eye, or should I say my ear. Several large birdcages were settled at various locations around the back garden and inside these were various colourful birds - mainly parrots, I believe, and I also spotted a beautiful pair of love-birds I wouldn’t have minded taking home with me. The various speakers we had did well in competition with our noisy feathered friends. I moved myself into the front row and I was able to hear and benefit from the talks which were most interesting. I’m in the process of absorbing information about bromeliads; especially how to care for them. Light, I am realising, is a very important factor in growing beautiful bromeliads and I’m green with envy of all you lucky people who have shade-cloth enclosures to grown them in. Very interesting talks and demonstrations were provided, first by Bob and then by Dave, on how to separate clumps of tills and dyckias respectively. Dave’s task was the more difficult as he went into hand to hand combat with his Dyckia ‘Betty Farnhill’ seedling - a claret colour prickly looking thing - like a bunch of sea anemones - of about 30 cm in diameter. Dave said he usually hosed the dirt from the roots but today he used his fingers to tear the clump apart, then slowly separated and removed each plantlet from the group with the aid of various tools. Kindly, Dave let us all keep a little plantlet. The competitions were thrilling but I only had eyes for one plant - the winner of the Novice Bromeliad section, a superb large plant called Neoregelia ‘Dorothy’ gown by Steven - one of the most spectacular neoregelias I have ever seen; she’s such a show-off bearing her bright
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