30th Inter-City and Succulent Show and Sale August 8 - 9 2015 9:00 - 5:00 Los Angeles County

Arboretum

The 30th Annual Show! The Show has been spectacular for every one of those years. Every year we get people coming back for the 10th or 20th time, and every year we get people wandering in by chance, who come back repeatedly, join a club and become part of the hobby. The Show is the most inclusive of any, with the highest quality seen anyplace, and at the same time has maintained the ability to attract entrants from novice, advanced and open categories in about equal numbers.

The sales area has grown to be the best anywhere, with record sales year after year, with people flying into LA just to attend the Show. We have repeat attendees form India, Japan and Korea, along with frequent visitors from all over Europe. Buses come from San Diego, Fresno and Phoenix. The Show now lives on in perpetuity thanks to the displays on YouTube and Facebook. Pictures of the Inter-City Show now appear in every digital medium, allowing the show to be seen and enjoyed around the world.

The Show is a success not because of the plants, but because of the wonderful volunteers, entrants, vendors, and not the least because of the assistance and support of the entire Los Angeles Arboretum staff. I count periodically, and there are over 100 people who participate in one way or another in helping put on this Show. We need the support of every one of them this year. The Show should be spectacular. Bring your best plants; we will have people coming from all over to see them.

The Inter-City Show is one of the easiest to enter with classes for novice growers, advanced growers, and an open class for the expert growers. Novice and advanced growers are the heart of the Show! They enter more than two thirds of the plants exhibited, and these are the plants that convince visitors to become members of their local Cactus and Succulent Society chapter.

The entry hours go into the evening starting at noon on Wednesday and 8 a.m. on Thursday. Friday’s entry hours are from 8 in the morning to 4 p.m. We need participation from members at all levels from all the clubs.

When you exhibit and show with the best, you become a better grower, and all your plants will look better. Exhibit this year. You will enjoy the experience.

Bring some friends to see the Show!

Entry Tags & Show Schedule Wear your club badges!

Entry tags and Show Schedules are available at all A good crowd in the room makes for a better show. club meetings. If you are entering from out of town This is a great time to meet people from the other (or just desperate) and need either, contact John clubs and to spend more quality time with the plants Matthews at 661-714-1052 or jgmplants@ aol.com, you love. If you haven’t spent time at a show, you and we’ll mail them to you. Tags and the schedules will be amazed at the growing tips and advice that will also be available during the set-up days. If you are freely given. It is a first-class learning are novice, there will be people there to help with opportunity. No previous experience and no identification and placement. We all start as novices. expertise (although you have more than you think) is required.

Vital Numbers Show Photographer Many thanks to Tommy Dodson who contributed Show Chairs most of the show photos in this newsletter. Tom Glavich 626-798-2430 John Matthews 661-714-1052 Newsletter Editor Peter Walkowiak 858-382-1797 Evelynn Stevens [email protected]

Web Master and Web Page Sales Chair Jim Hanna 562-920-3046 Gunnar Eisel has maintained our Web Page for many years. Access is through http://www. sgvcss.com.

Worker and Entrant Pre-Sale Show Treasurer Evelynn Stevens 626-303-1239 The sales area will be open Friday from about 2:00pm (or earlier if there is a cashier and a cash register). This is a special pre-sale for workers and entrants. Get the first pick of the sale plants and Your Help Needed! pots. You are needed! Lots of help is needed for set-up on Show Schedule Changes Wednesday morning, teardown on Sunday and for clerking Friday afternoon and night - let your show The show schedule this year is the same as last year. chairman know. The table rental company will do The show schedule can be found at: http:// the set-up. We just need to push the tables into the www.sgvcss.com. right positions and add the tablecloths. All of the backbreaking work will be done by others. We need Plant Entry and Take-Out Times help setting up the sales area. Plant Entry times are from 1:00pm to 6:00pm on The same is true for the sales, tabulations, holding Wednesday August 5, 9:00am to 9:00pm on area, etc. We particularly need help on Saturday Thursday August 6 and 9:00am to 5:00pm on Friday morning when sales are the busiest. Sales and August 7. All plants must be in place before 5:00pm holding area need help during the show, and to allow the start of judging. Take-out starts at everyone is needed to greet the public, answer 5:00pm on Sunday August 9. All plants must be questions, and just keep an eye on the plants. removed on Sunday evening.

Shirts and Artwork Saturday Night Banquet and Auction

This year’s T-Shirt design is Lithops dorotheae by The Saturday night Banquet and Auction has been a Tom Glavich. Many of us have this plant, and it show tradition from the start. It’s a great time to would be interesting to see a great display of this argue the fine points of showing and judging, and wonderful plant. meet many fine people from the other clubs and from out of town.

A feature of each of the Banquets has been an auction of spectacular plants (and most surprisingly affordable) from some of the best growers. These are often the ones that appear on the trophy table in years to come.

Same great location as last year: Coco’s Restaurant Oak Tree Room 1150 W. Colorado Blvd. Arcadia, at the SE corner at Michellinda. Social hour starts at 5:30pm with dinner served at 6:30pm. The dinner will be the old favorite: Carved beef and chicken, with vegetables, salad, drinks and desert.

The cost of the meal is $30.00 for adults and $15.00 for children from 5 to 10 years, including tax and tip. Please contact our Show Treasurer, Evelynn Stevens for further information 626-303-1239 or [email protected]. Make checks payable to ICCSS c/o Evelynn Stevens 216 S. California Ave. Monrovia, CA 91016

Due to the overwhelming number of Golden Sweeps! auction plants, we ask that you let one The Golden Sweeps have been a part of our show for of the Chairs know prior to bringing several years. These are special pots awarded to plants. We have a two plant limit, and those who win a first, second and third in a single must limit the total number of plants. category in Class 1 (Cacti) or Class 2 (Succulents). Bring in those ‘extra’ plants that will give you a chance at these special awards. Last year we awarded only a few of these awards, almost evenly Help your club! distributed between Open, Advanced and Novice! It’s no secret that these are easiest to win in the Show your plants! Novice class. We give out about the same number in Bring Your Friends! Cacti and Succulents, so bring what you grow best.

Congratulations to the 2014 Trophy Winners

Best Ariocarpus A. kotschoubeyanus Steve & Julie Plath Best Astrophytum A. asterias Kim Thorpe Best Echinocereus E. stramineus Pat Swain Best Gymnocalycium G. marsoneri ssp. matoense John Matthews Best Mammillaria M. herrerae W. Munkacsy Best Cereus Stenocereus eruca Tony Marino Best Opuntia Tephrocactus geometricus Ron Harris Best Rebutia/Sulcorebutia S. arenacea Gunnar Eisel Best Epiphitic Cactus Rhip. cereuscula Betty Farfan Best Argentine Cactus Echinopsis huascha ssp. robusta K. & M. Ostler Best Native U.S. Cacti Echinocactus polycephalus Steve & Julie Plath Best Chilean Cactus cinerea ssp. longistaminea Alex Abrahamian Best Crested Cactus Frailea magnifica Peter Walkowiak Best Variegated Cactus Astro myriostigma Kim Thorpe Best Novice-Cactus Ubelmannia pectinifera Kathryn Boorer Best Cactus-Adv. Stenocactus lloydii Richard Deming Best Cactus-Open Astro myriostigma W. Munkacsy Best Rookie-Cactus none Best Agave A. albipilosa Nick Wilkinson Best Anacardiaceae Operculicarya pachypus Mike Hackett Best Aloe A. castilloniae Tim Harvey Best Aloe Hybrid Mini A. x 'inflaemed' Tim Harvey Best Asclepiad Petopentia natalensis Peter Walkowiak Best Crassula Crassula 'Garnet lotus' Nick Wilkinson Best Echeveria E. 'Ebony' Naomi Bloss Best Euphorbia E. crispa Kim Thorpe Best Madagascar Euphorbia E. francoisii v. crassicaulis Petra Crist Best Fouquieria F. purpusii Nick Wilkinson Best Gasteria G. batesiana 'Barbarton' Mary Brumbaugh Best Haworthia H. Kim Thorpe Best Mesemb Conophytum marnierianum Naomi Bloss Best Lithops Lithops bromfieldii ssp. glaudinae John Matthews Best Pachypodium P. namaquanum Nick Wilkinson Best Rookie-Succulent none Best Succulent-Nov. Sansevieria suffruticosa Rebecca Mallonee Best Succulent-Adv. Dioscorea hemicrypta Kim Thorpe Best Succulent-Open Cyphostemma seitzianum Petra Crist Best Variegated Succulent none Best Crested Succulent Stapelianthus pilosus Tim Harvey Best Bonsai Succulent Euphorbia misera Peter Walkowiak Best Caudiciform Cyphostemma uter Petra Crist Best Euphorbia Pachypodium brevicaule Kyle Robinson Best Exhibit Mammillarias Karen & Martin Ostler Best Staged Copiapoa tenuissima Tony Marino Best Miniature Blossfeldia liliputana Kyle Robinson Best Collection Ariocarpus Kim Thorpe Rarest Plant In Show Eulychnia castenea Leona Harris Best Allied Interest Epiphyllum picture Darrin Griggs Any Other Pyrenacantha malvifolia Clifford Meng

2014 Trophy Winners

Walks and Talks

Saturday August 8 Sunday August 9 11:00 AM 11:00 AM Basic Cultivation Basic Cultivation

Rob MacGregor will talk about and answer questions on Kyle Williams will answer questions on keeping the keeping the plants you just bought alive and well. One of plants you just bought alive and well. One of our most our most popular talks; don’t miss this one! popular talks; don’t miss this one!

12: 00 PM 12:00 PM Succulent Bonsai Trophy Table Tour Julie Plath will discuss the basics of planting and caring Woody Minnich will explain why these plants won a for succulents using the Bonsai approach. trophy.

1:00 PM 1:00 PM More Fantastic Plants Enjoy Your Cacti Steve Frieze will lead a tour through the show and Steve Plath, Revegetation Specialist, will talk about how highlight some of the amazing entries which did not to more easily and successfully grow your cacti in the make it to the trophy table. Each plant will be discussed ground and in pots. and an explanation for its absence as a “best in show” will be offered. The tour will also allow participants to point out and discuss other entries that intrigue them. Questions and comments will be welcomed. 2:00 PM Judge’s Tour of Show Entries

2:00 PM Karen Ostler, Master Stager, will answer all of your The Diversity of the Euphorbias questions about how to improve your specific entries (or other entries) in this Show. This will be a walk through Peter Walkowiak, Horticulturist, will talk about care, the Show. maintenance and cultural needs of your Euphorbias. The genus Euphorbia is a very large and diverse group of plants found throughout the world and in many shapes, sizes and growth forms. There will also be a walk through the Euphorbia section of the show to showcase the Note: Speakers, Times and Subjects diversity of the Euphorbiacea. are subject change.

3:00 PM Propagation

Joe Stead, one of California’s master propagators, will show how to propagate common and rare succulents.

Bob, Horace and Julie

Louise

Phyllis, Tony and Manny Chuck and Susan

Nils and Gunnar

Miles

Jim, Roxie, Minh, Nick and Gregg

Buck and Steve

Mr. and Mrs. Frank McDonough

Rusty