TCSS BOARD Offi cers President: Richard Wiedhopf • [email protected] Vice President: Vonn Watkins • [email protected] Secretary: Susan Durham [email protected] Treasurer: Joe Frannea [email protected] Newsletter of the Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society January 2013 Board of Directors: Please see our Website Calendar for the next [email protected] rescued cactus sale. They are scheduled at various Thursday, January, 3, 2013 at 7:00 PM (Ending Dec. 31, 2013) times during the year based on our inventory. Linda Bartlett “The Road to Singapore” Cyndi Garrison TCSS Club Members receive a 10% discount Presented by Val Little with Mark Dimmitt and Gene Joseph William (Bill) Hicks Thomas Staudt January 2013 (Ending Dec. 31, 2014) Ed Bartlett Thursday, January 3, 2013 7:00pm Rob Romero Monthly Meeting, “The Road to Singapore” Joie Giunta presented by Val Little with Mark Dimmitt and Gene Joseph Bill Salisbury Tuesday, January 8, 2013 7:00pm (Ending Dec. 31, 2015) Board meeting at the U of A College of Pharmacy Keimpe Bronkhorst John Durham Linda Heisley Dale Johnson CSSA Affi liate Rep: Bill Holcombe (2013) Cactus Rescue [email protected] Aerial view of the Cloud Forest and Flower Dome, Gardens by the Bay, Cactus Rescue: Chris Monrad/Joe Frannea Singapore Education: Open Trained as both a Landscape Architect and an Anthropologist, Free Plants: Open Val Little is best known as the Director of the Water Conservation Floilegium: Margaret Pope • [email protected] Alliance of Southern Arizona. A long time traveller and plant Librarian: Joie Giunta • [email protected] geek, Val attended the opening of the new, Gardens by the Prickly Park: Jesse byrd (Implimentation) Bay, botanic garden in Singapore last summer. This One Billion [email protected] Dollar garden is the new home to many plants grown right Programs: Vonn Watkins • [email protected] Refreshments: Patsy Frannea • [email protected] here in Tucson by our local plant legends (Mark Dimmitt, Jane Technology: Open Evans, Gene Joseph, Dan Bach, etc.) These specimen plants Research: Doug Rowsell • [email protected] have been integrated with the over 700,000 plants that make Garden Tours: Bill Salisbury • [email protected] up this tough-to-describe, twenty-fi rst century garden. Come Field Trips/tours Rob Romero/Joie Guinta Baobab and Bottle Tree Garden, Flower Dome, Gardens by the share the travel experience of these plants as they are prepared [email protected] Bay, Singapore to travel, and see the opulence of where they now live and are seen daily by thousands. Editor: Karen Keller [email protected] Deadline for copy: Thursday, February 21, 2013 Be sure to place this program on your calendar as a “must TCSS Web Page: attend” for the new year! This will be a special program that www.tucsoncactus.org everyone should truly enjoy. Come and experience the program, Webmaster: Keimpe Bronkhorst fi nd conversation with the multitude of cactus and succulent For additional information call: (520) 256-2447 fans, ask some questions, have some great refreshments and truly enjoy an excellent start to 2013. Everyone is Welcome! Bring your friends, join in the fun and meet the cactus and succulent community. January Refreshments TCSS Program Presentation Those with family names beginning with N, O, P, Q, R, S, and T please bring your choice of refreshments to the meeting. Your generous Thursday, February 7, 2013 sharing will be greatly appreciated and enjoyed! the meeting. Your “Rarely Seen and Rarely Found Native Cacti of Arizona” generous sharing will be greatly appreciated and enjoyed! Presented by Peter Breslin Supertree Grove, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore President’s Message Bill is an active member of the Board of Directors and has been elected to and chaired the nominations committee which is TCSS Election Results Your membership renewals are being always challenging. He is a long time supporter and active processed, donation receipts for 2012 participant in the rescue program and you see him at almost 233 Ballots were received and counted. This is approximately Board of Directors are sent and “Cactus Bucks” for the every meeting introducing guests and giving away door prizes 23% of the society. (term ending December 31, 2015) rescue crew members will be sent and raffl e plants. He certainly makes it fun. All candidates were running unopposed and have been Keimpe Bronkhorst soon. elected. John Durham Rim & Marija have been a part of the rescue program from Linda Heisley I want to especially recognize and thank it’s early days. They are an essential part of our Home tours President: Dick Wiedhopf Dale Johnson David Moyer our retiring secretary. He activities rounding up volunteer and planning the details that Vice President Vonn Watkins has been the glue that holds things makes this so enjoyable. Marija contributes her talents on Secretary Susan Durham Thank you on behalf of the nominations committee, together and keeps us focused on our commitments. He is an the refreshment committee. They are a part of every activity (Board appointed 12-11-2012) Bill Hick – Chair important volunteer at every event and especially at rescues. helping out wherever they can. Dale Johnson I am very privileged to have worked with him over the last 4 Treasurer Joe Frannea Linda Bartlett years. Thanks David. The President’s Special Service Awards were given to Bill Cyndi Garrison Thornton and Jim Elliot. It is special to have Bill involved in There is a calendar on our website which has tentative dates for this society. He participates in everything and does it with all our activities in 2013 and more activities are added throughout Acknowledgement of Contributions tremendous enthusiasm. His activities go beyond our society The names below represent the Tucson Cactus & Succulent Society members and friends whose donations helped make the year. We are working on a “What’s Happening” for the next and provide us with special opportunities for community this year a success. We extend our sincere thanks for your support. few months in every newsletter. Be sure to check it out starting outreach. Bill is an active participant in our rescue program, regularly next month. constant donor of special plants and fi nancial support of our General & Unrestricted Sue Diehl David Yetman & Family Anu Pundari programs and very knowledgeable about this community. Fund Ardner Cheshire Thomas W. Pew Jr. & Laura Matts Myhrman Betsy Zukoski Charla Dain Pew William Hicks We need a volunteer to arrange for free plants, door prizes and For almost four decades Jim Elliot has been growing and selling Patricia King Phil Feigin Saralaine E. Millet Mark H. Eckstein raffl e items for each meeting. There are no costs to you, just a cactus and succulents in the Phoenix/Chandler area. Since Bill Kendall Suzy Lillis Marie Hirsh Pat Sullivan little time to make all the arrangements. Please let me know if 1977 he and his lovely wife Electra have owned Arizona Cactus Gene Kelly Kaen K. Christensen David Bishop Jim Steff en you are interested in helping with this activity. Sales in Chandler. Jim has been a long time member of the Marsha Turkin Jeanette Hinton Charla Dain Thomas Staudt TCSS and a special friend to us. He has opened his nursery Karl Newton Max Atwel Susanna Schippers A new list of contact emails is in this newsletter. We have made it to us on bus trips to Phoenix, has been a monthly meeting Gabriele Koschorke JIm Boggs Research Peter Megaw easy by identifying the contact by title rather than name and the speaker and a donor of plants for meetings, conferences and Joe Diehl Chris Freeman Joe Friend Chris Marshall computer (with the help of Joe Frannea) does the rest. Every email conventions. He is truly an important part of our hobby. Diane Cheshire Mathew B. Johnson Patricia H. Waterfall address is @Tucsoncactus.org. So if you want to contact me it will Lee S. Brownson Education Patricia A. Rorabaugh Joe Friend be [email protected]. We can always be reached by Congratulations and thank you to all our awardees. David Bishop Betsy Zukoski Gilbert Durham phone at 520-256-2447. Barbara Walker David Bishop Florilegium Joy Phoenix Jason Townsend Charla Dain Linda E. Ryan Betsy Zukoski A list of committees will be sent out (hopefully with the renewals) New additions to the library Barbara Townsend Peter Wallace Nancy Reid Vonn Watkins and you can easily contact the chair or the committee by email The Gardener’s Guide to Cactus: The 100 Best Paddles, Fred Miller Ann Wallace Mark A. Dimmitt Robert Pittman or phone if you’re interested in helping. With your help this will Barrels, Columns, and Globes by Scott Calhoun Arlene Miller Daphne Lederman & Family Carol J. Owens Wendall & Rosemary be another great year for TCSS. This book is a great beginners guide and useful for the more Bill Lilis Jan Konstanty Bill and Randy Owens Niemenn experienced as well. It contains numerous photos of various Ken Kay Nicole Harrington Joan McGann Ralf Holzheu I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. plants, many showing what the fl owers will look like, what size Byron Hinton Jr. Patrick Harrington Mathew B. Johnson Cathy & Elias the plant will ultimately reach and more. Sharon Atwell Margaret Fusari DIck Hidreth Cabezas Thank you for your support, Jody Wilson Tom Fern Patricia A. Rorabaugh Marian Alaback Intermountain Flora Vascular Plants of the Intermountain Ron Meyer Michael Burnett Sue Hildreth Linda Heisley Dick Wiedhopf, President West, U.S.A. Volume Two, Part A Subclasses Douglas C. Jones Nanette Burnett Martha & Steve Goode Presidents Awards Magnoliidae-Caryophyllidae John A. Johnson Chris and Elizabeth Warren Pima Prickly Park Susan Thickett For the last several years, the Board of Directors has authorized By Noel H.