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Bromelcairns 2015#1 Bromelcairns Bimonthly Newsletter of Cairns Bromeliad Societ Inc. 2015 # 1 P.O. Box 28 Cairns Queensland 4870 Austalia President Bob Hudson 0740533913 V-President Brendan Leishman 0740578604 Secretary Dave Weston 0740578604 Treasurer Lesley Hepburn 0488788892 Librarian Steven French 0740322283 Editor Lynn Hudson 0740533913 Editor Assist. Jodie Smith 0405022155 Member Concierge Sharon Miller 0740322283 Pop. Vote Steward Lynn Hudson 0740533913 OIC Pots Frances Boyd 0740552550 OIC Raffles Karen Stevens 0740361086 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] c Presidents Report for 2014 Here we are at another AGM for our great little Society which is envied by many. We gained five new members and I do hope they are enjoying our meetings. Our new meeting venue is proving to be an advantage as we have seen interesting slide shows on different topics. It is good to see the topics as well as talking about them. Our many learning segments are proving to be rewarding to you our members and it shows in the plants you are grow and bring to our meetings and shows. I would like to thank the committee for their hard work during the past year. I thank all who entered plants in the Mini Shows and Popular Vote sections of the meetings and congratulations to the winners. I would like to see more members contribute. By showing your plants other members learn - not only the plant beauty, but also your cultivation methods and some of the available plants from the vast range of the bromeliad family. The raffle table just keeps getting bigger as you as members are bringing in great prizes. The Blooming Broms weekend was a great success and I do hope you all support and enjoy the next one in June. With your support this year will be better than the last. Bob Hudson President **************************************************************************************** Tank You Nalda for being our Concierge for te past four years. You have done a good job and at tmes I know you were far fom wel. Tank You Gail for being a wonderfl help t me as Assist. Editr. We do appreciat te efforts of our volunters, witout whom we would have no societ. Welcome t new commitee members - Sharron as Concierge Jodie as Assit. Editr and Frances as ‘Pot Lady’. Tank You for Ae. vallerandii Ae.’King Brown’ voluntering t do tese dutes I am sure you wil each enjoy your roles. Dave & Brendan have contnued t arrive early and start seting up, Bren has been our photgrapher, providing pictures of your plants t show te world. Steven has lugged te Library Books in each meetng - how many did you take out last year? Karen is stl adept at seling raffle tckets and Bob can stl lift heavy tings and tt te never ending. Tank You t Each of You fom Al of Us. Lynn. 3 Club Actvites & Around te Members FEBRUARY: The AGM went smoothly with Sharron acting as President for the election of committee. All present agree she did an excellent job but she refused to be our permanent President. Numbers were down as it was very wet *New Members: Jo & Glenn attended their first meeting and went home with new plants. Welcome to our happy clan, we know you will enjoy learning with us. * From Jodie: Bob said he would show the members gardens at the March meeting. He said the pictures would demonstrate the range of challenges we each face as collectors/gardeners and how we deal with them. It is not a competition but a learning experience where we can all benefit from others successes/failures * There were dyckia, neoregelias and tillandsias entered in the mini show. MINI SHOW - Favourite Bromeliad 1st Dyckia goehringii - Dave Weston >>>> 2nd. Neo ‘Painted Magnificence’ - Steven French 3rd. Tillandsia jalisco-monticola - Paul Venturi POPULAR VOTE: NOVICE - Bromeliad 1st Vriesea ‘Precious Pearls’- Janie O’Brien 2nd.. Neoregelia ‘Magali’- Janie O’Brien OPEN - Bromeliad 1st.Neo. ‘Bill Morris’ - Darryl Lister 2nd.Neo. ‘Painted Magnificence’ - Steven French > 2nd. Dyckia goehringii - Dave Weston Cryptanthus 1st Cryptanthus NOID - Dave Weston 2nd Cryptanthus beuckeri - Lynn Hudson 3rd Cryptanthus ‘Anne Collings’ - Lynn Hudson Tillandsia 1st Tillandsia jalisco-monticola - Paul Venturi 2nd. Till. jalisco-monticola hybrid - Marguerite Sexton 2nd. Tillandsia crocata - Dave Weston Crypt. noid Till. jalisco-monticola hybrid Till. crocata Neo. ‘Palmares’ 4 Show Entries: As I told you at the beginning of the meeting I am going to be really harsh when judging. You know the required standard - clean plant & pot, dead leaves removed, damaged leaves trimmed, name tag written properly etc. If not to standard > removed Lyn More from Jodie, our new Assistant Editor - Show Plants Dyckia goehringii - Dave said it was the first offset from the plant he imported from the New Orleans World Bromeliad Conference. As it matures this dyckia grows a stem that will become bare the older it gets, so this specimen is currently at it's optimum growth. This plant offsets high in the foliage producing offsets on long stolons. Dave said it is an easy plant to grow as long as you don't stress it. Neoregelia ‘Painted Magnificence’ (‘Painted Lady’ x ‘Magnifica’) Steven chose it as a small offset from the raffle table. What a large beauty it has become and with unique colour. Good grower our Steven! Tillandsia jalisco-monticola grown by Paul was in spike, not yet in flower, we hope to see it again. Popular Vote: It was excellent to see Janie enter two plants in Novice section, Vriesea ‘Precious Pearls’ and Neoregelia ‘Magali’. The vriesea is one of a group “bought from Dillings at the height of my patterned Vriesea wants”. Janie said she has had a lot of luck with patterned bromeliads, location seems to play a role in her success, being at the back of Edmonton near the hills and and professes to never fertilise. Janie doesn't experience any burning issues and has 70% shade cloth, which Bob pointed out, that if not stretched, probably only rates as 50%. Neoregelia ‘Magali’ was glowing with health, had perfect conformation and colour. Vr. ‘Precious Pearls’ Neoregelia ‘Magali’ Neoregelia ‘Bill Morris’ Darryl showed Neoregelia ‘Bill Morris’ that he said "started off a normal variegated offset and as it grew the white area got wider and wider”. The marks in the picture are the normal red spotting but they are congregated together. It will be interesting to see how this plant develops as it loses more chlorophyll. Nalda showed a perfect Neoregelia ‘Palmares’ bought as an offset at Bloomin Broms 2012 as she prefers “small patterned things”. She keeps it under 75% shade cloth and is a great specimen, well done Nalda! 5 "In my garden this month….." Thank You to the Members who have responded to my request for info this section. Ed. Christel [& Paul] Many of our plants did not take too kindly to the intense heat and the very dry conditions over the weeks leading up to Christmas and the New Year. Even the sun tolerant plants did not cope too well, though they had done so the previous year. We ended up having to relocate them. By then the damage had already been done so we will now have to wait for the pups to come up and hope that they will fare better. The bromeliad that has given me the most joy and satisfaction and has proved to be the least troublesome is Neoregelia ‘Hannibal Lector’. It has maintained its colour and lustre even though it is not under shade. We did have a bountiful harvest from the "Mareeba Pineapple" tops that Paul keeps planting. They were sweet and juicy and well worth planting. I recommend that particular variety of pineapple ... and the tops are so easy to grow! The recent rainfall has been a blessing and very, very welcome. It was so heavy the other night that quite a few of Paul's tillandsias were separated from their mount. He has been busy gluing and re-positioning them. Apart from that it is now the season for mowing and pulling out weeds. Does not matter what we do....weeds still get into those pots! ************************************************* Cairns Botanic Gardens - update from JODIE’s Garden Work has well and truly started on the new conservatory, with the concrete being laid for the external paths the first week in February.
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