Category: Monthly meeting

The May meeting will be held on the 3rd Monday, not the 4th Monday of May, so as not to interfere with any Memorial Day plans. We will be having a potluck.

We will talk about the positives of the Sale/Show but not overdo the business aspect of things. This is a time to eat, relax, talk and enjoy ourselves. There will be index cards that you can use to comment on the Show and Sale. Send me an email if that works for you. We welcome any positive suggestions for tweaking the Sale/Show for future years.

For details on what to bring, check the May newsletter.

How Plants Get Around: Flying, Hitchhiking, and Other Cool Methods

The speaker at our next meeting on Monday, April 28, 2025 will be our club’s own J.D. Wikert. He will present on the various modes that plants use move from one location to another. J.D. will discuss some of the more interesting ways plants have of distributing themselves across the landscape. This is an aspect of cacti and succulent horticulture that we don’t often focus on.

J.D. will bring plants to sell at the meeting. He can take cash or Venmo.

Meeting details:

Doors open at 6:15 pm for plant sales and fellowship.

Program begins at 7:00 pm.

Shepard Garden & Arts Center
3330 McKinley Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95816

FEBRUARY MEETING:
February 24th, 2025, 6:00pm -9:15pm

Doors open at 6:15 for plant sales and fellowship. Program begins at 7 PM.

Open to the public. No admission fee. Free parking. Refreshments served.

PROGRAM:
Everything (a lot anyway)You Need to Know to Get the Most Out of Your Sacramento Cactus and Succulent Club Membership

There has been and currently is a lot going on in your club. Your club membership can be more enjoyable, rewarding, and promote your hobby enthusiast growth by joining in as we take a look behind the curtain at all the goings on during this month’s meeting.

There will be two parts to the meeting. First, we will provide tips and information for how to get the most out of your club membership. In the second half of the meeting, we will have a member Show-n-Tell session in a small group format.

How can you leverage your club membership:

• To get more for your cactus and succulent buying dollar
• To gain access to more, interesting, and rare plants
• To see cacti and succulents in more natural and beautiful landscape applications

We will very briefly look at the club across all of the decades of its existence. We will move quickly to looking at the club currently and new directions on the horizon. Some of these directions are most welcome, and others may require the club to navigate wisely, creatively, and with enthusiasm.

For the Show-n-Tell, please bring either 1) a plant you love (and may even be thinking of entering in the juried show in May), 2) a plant that is giving you trouble, or 3) a plant you would like to know more about. We will have club “experts” circulating to offer help on identification, culture, or how to show your plant to its best.

Please come. Guaranteed that you will be more ready to leverage your membership. Guaranteed that you will enjoy yourself, connect with other members, and contribute to the forward momentum of the Sacramento Cactus and Succulent Society.

For more information, read the February 2025 edition of Thorny Issues.