PROGRAMME 2024 New visitors are very welcome! Click on pictures to see more Dec 2nd, 2024 7:45 pm Hatch End Christmas Social An extra long mid-break is planned for sharing a seasonal finger buffet of savoury and sweet snacks - donations please! As is our tradition in recent years, the main entertainment will be provided by David Minnion who has selected some interesting videos from YouTube. As well as donations for the buffet, we are looking for donations as special Christmas raffle prizes please. Spouses welcome! Admission £3, raffle tickets only £1. Please bring cacti and succulents for display in the four table show classes: Astrophytum Group; Haworthia group; any cactus; any succulent (there is a 6 1/4" pot restriction) or any other plant of interest. Note: Our following meeting will be Monday 5th February after a break in January. The Scout Hall will be closed then for minor building work. Nov 4th, 2024 7:45 pm Hatch End Bob Potter will return with a presentation titled "A Succulent Odyssey". It will include highlights from his past travels in Afica over several decades including his latest trip to Tanzania. It will include many unusual and interesting succulent Euphorbias. Bob Potter is a Treasurer and Membership Admin of the International Euphorbia Society; he will be bringing some sales plants too. Admission £3, raffle tickets only £1. Your sales plants will also be welcome (allow 10% comission to branch). Please bring cacti and succulents for display in the four table show classes: Ariocarpus Group; Euphorbia Group; any cactus; any succulent (there is a 6 1/4" pot restriction) or any other plant of interest. Oct 7th, 2024 7:45 pm Hatch End The talk will be presented by our chairman Derek Tribble. The Milkweed family, Asclepiadaceae, contains a very broad range of plant forms from houseplants to succulents. The late Chris Moore was an expert grower and has left a large number of his photographs to the BCSS as six presentations. The vast majority are flower photos - very attractive - but far too many for one evening. So to broaden the scope, Derek will include other aspects, including his encounters with some Stapeliiads in South Africa. It would be a great help if everyone else brought in their Ceropegias, Stapeliads, Hoyas, Fockeas, etc. for display please. Admission £3, raffle tickets only £1. Your sales plants will also be welcome (allow 10% comission to branch). Please bring cacti and succulents for display in the four table show classes: Strombocactus Group; Mesemb Group; any cactus; any succulent (there is a 6 1/4" pot restriction) or any other plant of interest. Sept 2nd, 2024 7:45 pm Hatch End Our September meeting will bring Ian Small for the first time with a rather different presentation to our usual fare. He works for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and will tell us about "Planting in Commonwealth War Cemeteries Worldwide" which does feature c&s. Admission £3, raffle tickets only £1. Your sales plants will also be welcome (allow 10% comission to branch). Please bring cacti and succulents for display in the four table show classes: Turbinicarpus Group; Agave Group; any cactus; any succulent (there is a 6 1/4" pot restriction) or any other plant of interest. August 5th, 2024 7:45 pm Hatch End The first half of the evening will be our AGM. For the rest of the evening we will be entertaining ourselves from our own rescources and members are requested to bring several "Favourite Plants" to show off and briefly tell us why. This is a great way for us all to get to know what other members' interests are and what can be realistically achieved. While some may want to bring difficult or unusual plants, nice specimens of widely-grown plants will be just as welcome. In addition to the usual plant raffle tickets, we will hold an extra raffle for the first of John Pilbeam's books donated to the branch: Mammillaria - Now and Again (more of a lavish picture book with conversational text" (2017)). Admission £3, raffle tickets only £1. Your sales plants will also be welcome (allow 10% comission to branch). Please bring cacti and succulents for display in the four table show classes: Gymnocalycium Group; Stapelia Group; any cactus; any succulent (there is a 6 1/4" pot restriction) or any other plant of interest. Note: Members coming by public transport are advised to check TFL Status Update, because there are some planned closures that could affect their travel Sunday 21st July from 2:30 p.m. onwards: We are all invited to an open afternoon in Eastcote, visiting the spacious greenhouse & garden of Martin Edwards, our treasurer. There is always much to learn from seeing how other people grow their c&s and it would be nice to meet some members who cannot make Monday evenings. July 1st, 2024 7:45 pm Hatch End Paul Hoxey from Cambridge will return to present "Exploring northern Chile during an El Niño year". This should give insights into the conditions that Chilean cacti really need to grow, rather than just exist through bad times. Admission £3, raffle tickets only £1. Your sales plants will also be welcome (allow 10% comission to branch). Please bring cacti and succulents for display in the four table show classes: Copiapoa Group; Crassulaceae Group; any cactus; any succulent (there is a 6 1/4" pot restriction) or any other plant of interest. June 3rd, 2024 7:45 pm Hatch End Julian Cooke from the Hemel Hempstead area will present ‘Talk about the genus Echinocereus from Mexico & the USA’. Many of us have plants without names on their labels. Please bring them along, an Identification Table will be set aside again, for other people to try and help identify them. Admission £3, raffle tickets only £1. Your sales plants will also be welcome (allow 10% comission to branch). Please bring cacti and succulents for display in the four table show classes: Echinocereus Group; Euphorbia Group; any cactus; any succulent (there is a 6 1/4" pot restriction) or any other plant of interest. May 6th, 2024 7:45 pm Hatch End If you are going away for the Bank Holiday, make sure you are back for Monday evening, when Hazel Taylor will return to present "Plants and Animals of the Western Cape – part 1". She explains that this was a botanical holiday with pictures including succulents, flowering Cape bulbs and other flora from this spectacular area of South Africa. Many of us have plants without names on their labels. Please bring them along, an Identification Table will be set aside again, for other people to try and help identify them. Admission £3, raffle tickets only £1. Your sales plants will also be welcome (allow 10% comission to branch). Please bring cacti and succulents for display in the four table show classes: Lophophora or Stenocactus Group; Lithops Group; any cactus; any succulent (there is a 6 1/4" pot restriction) or any other plant of interest. Apr 1th, 2024 7:45 pm Hatch End One of our favourite speakers, Paul Spracklin from Essex, is going to visit us again this Easter Monday evening. We have enjoyed his travelogues from Mexico in the past, but this time he will tell us about: "The Canary Islands, part 1: the Western Islands" and the plants that grow there - no doubt featuring Aeoniums. Many of us have plants without names on their labels. Please bring them along, an Identification Table will be set aside again, for other people to try and help identify them. Admission £3, raffle tickets only £1. Your sales plants will also be welcome (allow 10% comission to branch) and now in spring is a good time to buy! Please bring cacti and succulents for display in the four table show classes: Echinocactus Group (includes Ferocactus, etc); Gasteria Group; any cactus; any succulent (there is a 6 1/4" pot restriction) or any other plant of interest. Mar 4th, 2024 7:45 pm Hatch End We will have special presenters from the horticultural speaking circuit. Daniel & Jo Jackson have featured on BBC's Gardener's World for winning RHS Gold Medals at flower shows around the country with dispays of cacti & succulents. They will present their talk "Our Road to Chelsea" and will also bring some sales plants from their nursery in Surrey. Daniel holds one of the National Collections for Haworthias. Don't miss this evening which should be entertaining - we are hoping for a good turnout! As usual, there will be a raffle and sales plants. Entrance fee is £3, a raffle ticket is £1. Also, there will be an Identification Table at this meeting. Bring any of your plants that need identifying. Please bring cacti and succulents for display in the four table show classes: Lophophora or Stenocactus Group; Haworthia Group; any cactus; any succulent (there is a 6 1/4" pot restriction) or any other plant of interest. Feb 5th, 2024 7:45 pm Hatch End Our chairmen Derek Tribble will present a talk about the different regions of South Africa looking at what makes them distinct and which type of succulent plants grow within each. Along the way, we willl see much spectacular scenery and some of the most iconic succulents in the veld (and some sunshine!). He will also bring some sales plants. As usual, there will be a raffle and sales plants. Entrance fee is £3, a raffle ticket is £1. Please bring cacti and succulents for display in the four table show classes: Mammillaria Group; Aloe Group; any cactus; any succulent (there is a 6 1/4" pot restriction) or any other plant of interest.
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