BULLETIN MAY 2007 COURIER Newsletter of the Palomar Cactus and Succulent Society

Volume 53, Number 5 April 2007

The Meeting is the 3rd Saturday!!

MAY 19, 2007

“Veterans Memorial Building” 230 Park Ave, Escondido (Immediately East of the Senior Center, Same Parking Lots)

There is construction in our usual room.

NOON !

“Intergrated Pest Management”

HEALTHY GARDEN – HEALTHY HOME

Representatives from the Healthy Garden – Healthy Home program, including several UC Master Gardeners and the UCCE San Diego County IPM Program Representative, Scott Parker, will facilitate a workshop on Integrated Pest Management (IPM). IPM, a scientifically based approach for pest management, incorporates cultural, mechanical, biological and chemical Aphid options as part of an overall pest management program. The primary focus of an IPM program is to utilize a non-toxic or least toxic approach in addressing pest control concerns. During this workshop, Ants, a very common home and garden pest in San Diego County, will be used to demonstrate the proper implementation of an IPM approach. However, additional topic related to cactus and succulents such as Aphids, Aloe Mite, Mealy Bugs, Agave Weevil, and Damping Off Disease will be discussed. Ladybug on the job!

Aloe Mite (Yuck!)

Wasp on Scale! Go, Team, Go!

Cochineal on Opuntia (We have this in the Garden!)

Mealy Bugs. How sad!

Cochineal

Scale

Black Scale, Sooty Mildew

BOARD MEETING • SALES • BRAG • EXCHANGE TABLE The Board Meeting will be moved due to the construction.

REFRESHMENTS

Jean O’Daniel Reese Brown Red Bernal

Mike Regan Britta Miller Vicki Martin

Plant(s) of the Month

This month we are having two different groups of plants, Sansevieria and .

Genus Sansevieria Genus Dudleya

S. trifasciata

D. brittonii

About 40 of plants found in the southwestern U.S. and Baja California in Mexico. Also, on several islands off both California and Baja. They are succulent rosettes of the Cotyledon family. Their color ranges from green to white, depending on the amount of

S. pinguicula white powdery wax the species produces for sun protection. They usually grow on steep slopes or crevices 70 species of flowering plants found in the in rock faces which provide excellent drainage. They need tropical and subtropical Old World. They are herbaceous full sun in coastal areas, but light shade in warmer inland to shrubby succulent perennials from 20 cm to 3 m tall, areas. There are only two species that seem to tolerate the often in clumps forming from spreading rhizomes. The heat of Arizona. They are winter growers and come out of flowers are greenish-white, produced on a simple or dormancy in late fall. They do most of their growth in late occasionally branched raceme. The fruit is usually a red winter and several species will not tolerate summer water. or orange berry with a smooth surface, containing a single Propagation: best from seed sewn in the fall after the seed. They are usually xerophytic in habitat but can summer heat is over. Cuttings are best rooted in the tolerate a wide variety of growing conditions, wet or dry, winter in protected damp (not wet) soil after the cutting but do not like cold. Sansevieria trifasciata and its has dried for at least three days. DO NOT COLLECT numerous cultivars (200+) account for the plants called WILD PLANTS. Several species are threatened by habitat 'Mother in Laws Tongue' or 'snake plant' and is the source destruction (mostly housing development and road of the vast majority of Sansieverias sold as house plants. construction). Sansevieria species are quite diverse with some having single leaves, double leaves or multi-leaf rosettes growing from rhizomes. Some have flat leaves, others round- cylindrical leaves. Not to mention cardboard like, rigid leaves with beautiful stripes, bandings, and or striations. They can be propagated from seed but are more often grown from cuttings (evan a single leaf).

D. lanceolata

D. arizonica

If you have special plants, especially if they are in flower, please bring them and show them off. Many are in bloom right now and the flower anatomy is crucial to identfying the species.

2007 Meeting Schedule Southland Cactus Calendar

19 May Joslyn Center May 20th NOTE ! ! ! 3rd Saturday ! ! Huntington Plant Sale 10am - 5pm at the Huntington 23 June Joslyn Center Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA.

28 July Palomar Garden Info 626-405-2160, www.huntington.org

25 August Quail Garden

22 September Joslyn Center

27 October Joslyn Center

17 November Joslyn Center NOTE ! ! ! 3rd Saturday ! !

15 December Joslyn Center NOTE ! ! ! 3rd Saturday ! ! May 20th Epiphyllum Society Show & Sale, Los Angeles County  Arboretum, Arcadia, CA. Info 310-831-1209

Jun 2nd & 3rd San Diego Cactus & Succulent Society Show & Sale, Palomar Cactus & Succulent Balboa Park, RM 101, San Diego, CA. Info 619-477-4779

Society June 29th – July 1st

P.O. Box 840, Escondido, CA 92033 CSSA Annual Show & Sale. Huntington Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Rd, San Marino, CA. Info: 626- Membership Application 405-2160 or 2277. Plant sales start June 30 – July 1. The

show opens on June 30 – July 1. Open to the public. I/We wish to join/renew membership in the Palomar Cactus & Succulent Society $15.00 Single Membership  $20.00 Dual Membership (Same Address) (1/2 price after June 30th)

Name Phone Garden Days Dick Henderson Address May th City State Zip The attendees on May 5 were Dick Henderson, Rock & Gary Nelson, Carols Daub, and Susan Snow. Make checks payable to: THANK YOU! “Palomar Cactus & Succulent Society” P.O. Box 840, Escondido, CA 92033 The Garden Committee will meet the first Saturday in June (the 2nd) and will concentrate on cleaning, repairing, and widening the access paths  of the Garden in preparation for our picnic in July.

Our current plan is to provide a written plan to allow the Campus Police to open the Garden to teachers of the College for their classes. The police will close and lock the gates after each class. They will patrol the front of the Garden on an hourly basis. We plan to implement this procedure in August for fall classes.

Safer Oil Spray Damage – BE CAREFUL! The next Garden Meeting will be June 2nd from 11 am to 2 pm

Class # 2 – Ferocactus, Echinocereus, Echinocactus 2007 Members Plant Show Winners 1. Echinocereus fendleri v. kuenzleri Peter Walkowiak All the members who brought plants were 2. Echinocereus viereckii Peter Walkowiak

winners! Novice 2. Echinocereus pectinata v. rubrispinus Best in Show David Solomon

Class # 3 – Echinopsis, Notocactus, Parodia, , et al. 1. Lobivia winteriana Peter Walkowiak 2. Gymnocalycium andreae Peter Walkowiak

Rudy Lime – Fouquieria fasciculata

Best Cactus Class # 4 – Any Cereus Types, Including Columnar Echinopsis 1. Pilosocereus calciolia Andrew Wilson 2. Trichocereus nigricans Andrew Wilson

Class # 5 – Miniatures – Rebutias, Turbinocarpus 1. Rebutia flavistyla Peter Walkowiak 2. Sulcorebutia ranschii Peter Walkowiak

Class #6 – Epiphyllum, Selenicereus, Rhipsalis 1. Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri Peter Walkowiak

Peter Walkowiak – Echinocereus fendleri v. kuenzleri Class # 8 - All Other Genera 1. Copiapoa humilis Peter Walkowiak 2. Neochilenia negrispina Peter Walkowiak Best Succulent

DIVISION II - OTHER SUCCULENTS

Class # 9 – WOODY STEM PLANTS, including: Adansonia, Alluaudia, Bombax, Bursera, Commiphora, Decaryia, Didiera, Fouquieria, Idria, Pachycormas, Operculicarya 1. Sesamthamnos lugardii Peter Walkowiak 1. Fouquieria fasciculata Rudy Lime 2. Bombax elypticum Reese Brown 2. Brachychiton rupestris Red Bernal

Reese Brown – paulianii Class # 10 – SUCCULENT ROOT PLANTS, including: Cucurbits, Fockea, Gerrardanthus, Ipomoea, Mestoklema, Seyrigia, Trichodiadema, Xerosicyos DIVISION I - CACTUS 1. Crinum cybister Andrew Wilson 2. Pacypodium bispinosum Peter Walkowiak Class # 1 – Mammillaria 1. M. matudae Peter Walkowiak Novice 2. M. plumosa Phyllis Flechsig 2. Gerrardanthus macrorhizus Lorie Johansen

Class # 11 – SUCCULENT STEM PLANTS, including: Adenium, Brighamia, Cissus, Cyphostemma, Pachypodium 1. Adenium arabicum v. compactum Peter Walkowiak 1. Adenium multiform Rudy Lime 2. Brighamia insignis Phyllis Flechsig 2. Pacypodium catipes Peter Walkowiak

Class # 12 – Agave, Nolina, Yucca Class # 21 – Bromeliads including: Deuterocohina (formerly 1. Calibanus hookeri Richard Henderson Abromeitiella), Dyckia, Hechtia, Orthophytum, Puya 2. Agave victoria regina Reese Brown 1. Dychia fostereana Jean O’Daniel

Class # 13 - Aloes 1. Titanopsis spec. Peter Walkowiak 1. Aloe buhrii Andrew Wilson 2. Gibbeaum album Andrew Wilson 2. Aloe porphyrostachys Phyllis Flechsig Class # 24 - All Other Genera including Compositae Novice 1. Bowiea volubilis Rudy Lime 2. Aloe bakerii Lorie Johansen 2. Plectranthus ernestii Peter Walkowiak

Class # 25 – Miniature Plants, Any Genus 1. ?? (no plant name!) Jean O’Daniel 2. Aeonium sedifolium Rudy Lime Class # 15 - Gasterias, Sanseverias, Astroloba 1. Sanseveria kokocrater Jean O’Daniel Class # 26 – Any Variegated Plants 2. Sanseveria arborescens Jean O’Daniel 1. Aeonium decorum Gloria Kendall 2. Sanseveria pearsonii Richard Henderson 2. Portulacaria afra variegata Rudy Lime

Class # 16 - – Tall Forms Class # 27 – Grafted Plants of any Succulent Class 1. E. paulianii Reese Brown 1. Ficus palmeri Rudy Lime 2. E. millottii Reese Brown 2. E. genandiana Peter Walkowiak Novice 2. Euphorbia lactea Crest Lorie Johansen Class # 16 - Euphorbiaceae – Short Forms 1. E. gottlebei Peter Walkowiak 1. E. decaryi Peter Walkowiak DIVISION III – SUCCULENT GRAFTED, CRISTATE & 2. E. platyclada Jean O’Daniel MONSTROSE

Class # 17 - Euphorbiaceae – Columnar, Bush and Tree Forms Class # 28 - Crested and Monstrose Plants – Succulents & 1. E. stellespinus Peter Walkowiak Cactus 2. E. cv “Twinkle Twirl” Peter Walkowiak 1. Euphorbia milii “Thai Hybrid” Rudy Lime 2. E. bupleurifolia Peter Walkowiak 2. Euphorbia flanaganii Red Bernal

Novice 1. Pedilanthus tithymaloides Lorie Johansen DIVISION IV – DISH GARDENS

Class # 18 - Euphorbiaceae – Caudiciforms Class # 29 - Dish Gardens 1. E. hederioede (spelling?) Rudy Lime 1. Dish Garden Brita Miller 2. E. hedyotoides Phyllis Flechsig 2. Portulacaria afra variegata Rudy Lime

Novice Novice 1. Euphorbia spec. Teri Schmidt 1. Dish Garden Lorie Johansen

Class # 19 - - Rosette Forms including: Aeonium, Dudleya, , Graptopetalum, Orostachys, Sedum, Sempervivum 2. Dudleya greeneii “Munchkin” Richard Henderson

Novice 1. Dudleya attenuata Jooweon Park

Class # 20 – Crassulaceae – All Others, including: Cotyledon, Crassula, Kalenchoe, Pacyphytum and non- Rosette Sedum 1. Sedum torolosum Rudy Lime DIVISION V – COLLECTIONS 2. Tylecodon retuses Peter Walkowiak 2. Sedum frutescens Andrew Wilson Class # 30 - Collections - 3 or more, Same Genus 2. Crassula crassicaule Andrew Wilson

DIVISION VI – SUCCULENT BONSAI

Class # 31 – Any in a Bonsai Style - Classical or Unconventional 1. Operculicarya decaryi Rudy Lime 2. Pelargonium alteinans Rudy Lime 2. Sarcocaulon vanderietiae Rudy Lime

Ron Chisum

Ron Chisum would like to thank all the people who helped so DIVISION VII – ARTWORK Non-Competitive much to make the Show wonderful: the experts who helped with plant identification before the Show, the people who helped him Photography and original art created by a member with subject move all the tables into `place, the judges, the clerks, the matter of cacti or succulents. participants, and everyone who came! [And I would like to thank the clerks for their legible handwriting!] Participants: Claudia Brown Ron Chisum Phyllis Flechsig

Claudia Brown

2007 Del Mar Fair June 8th through July 4th

As in years past, a great deal of fun can be had by all. Some participation by all of us makes more fun and less work. Please come and pitch in. Come one, come all. If you can't lift a plant, that's OK, bring a soft paint brush and sweep out the cobwebs and pine needles. (Don't forget your gloves ! )

May 19-20 First Weekend of Access Contouring and organizing the dirt. Bring shovels, rakes and GLOVES!

May 26-27-28 Work Weekend Planting crew at the Fair installing plants. (Don’t forget those gloves!)

June 2-3 Last Work Weekend Planting crew at the Fair installing plants. We will be numbering and labeling all the plants this weekend, so this is the LAST opportunity to bring plants. Finish up the groundcover and the bark. Bring soft brushes and tweezers for final plant grooming.

Photos by Vicki Broughton of 2005 Del Mar Fair Tuesday, June 5 The Gardens MUST be ready for Judging by 10 AM!