Open Gates A publication of the Gates Cactus & Succulent Society June 2014

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1 Sweepstakes Winner June Plants of the Month: Cacti: Gymnocalycium Succulents: Euphorbia Save These Dates: June7&8SanDiego Show&Sale June14&15LosAngeles C&SSShow&Sale June14GatesShow& SaleWrapUpMeeting June27 29CSSAShow &SaleatThe HuntingtonGeta specialstickeratthe meetingtogetinfree. Open Gates A publication of the Gates Cactus & Succulent Society June 2014 NEXT MEETING, WEDNESDAY, June 4, 2014 NEW TIME! 7:00 PM AT THE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MUSEUM I- 10 AT CALIFORNIA STREET IN REDLANDS, CA. From the President: Whataspectacularannualshowandsalewehadlastmonth!Thosewhocame andenjoyedthespectacleknowwhatthismeans.thosewhodidnotgettoattendi hopeyoucanparticipatenextyear.thenewvenuewassomuchmoreappropriateand effectiveforourevent.bothdayshadconsistenthighnumberofattendeeswhotruly absorbedallthebeautyofthecactiandsucculentsshowcase.afterwards,everyonealso enjoyedshoppingformanyoftheirfavoritedroughttolerantplants.thepublicturnout wasabigpartofoursuccess. Overall,thesaleisasuccessintermsofthetotalsalesamount.Salestotalis approximatelyover$16,000andwehavemanyexpensestopay.thisisinfactour highestsalesinthehistoryofourshowandsale.manyfactorshelpedachievethis landmark.finalnumberswillbeavailableinthecomingweeks. IwanttorecognizetheLandscapesSouthernCaliforniaStylegardenfortheir generousandkindsupport.thelocationisquiteidealforfutureshowsasitwasboth accommodatingandeasyaccessforeveryone.wehopetoexpandandimprovefora bettershownextyearathislocation. BuckHemenway,theshowchairpersondeservesamuchheartfeltrecognition forallthecountlesshoursanddedicatedhardworkpreparingandputtingontheshow. WhenIsayhardworkIreallymeanweallsweatedinthebakingheattosetupandtake downtheshow.thatsaid,iwouldliketoacknowledgealltheclubmembersandtheir familyandfriendswhovolunteeredtheireffortstomakesuchasuccessfulandfunevent. Youaretheonewhomadetheshowgo.THANKYOUeveryonewhohelped! Weareplanningtheannualpostshowmeeting/gettogethertoevaluateand critiqueourshowandsale.everyonewhoparticipatedisinvitedtoattendandthedetail isinthisnewsletter. ThursdayJune5,2014willbethenextupcomingeventforusattheRedlands MarketNight.Besideshowcasingplantsandpromotingtheclubweareplanningtosale someplantstoo.onceagain,allinterestedmemberscancontactmeforfurtherdetails. ContinuedonPage2 President Phuc Huynh Director Kim Urman hunyhphu@excite.com Director Crystal Rojas Vice President Diana Roman Director Trisha Davis Treasurer Karen Roholt Director Ray Cardenas Secretary Linda McConnell Librarian Leadership Team Karen 2014 Fleisher Past President Don McGrew Greeter Teresa Wassman Membership Karen Roholt Editor Buck Hemenway

2 FromthePresidentCon t. Wearedeepintothespringseasonand summerwillbeuponusthismonth.rememberto takeappropriateadjustmentstowateringyourplants andprovideadequatecoversfromthesearingsun.i hopeyouaregettingbeautifulflowersblooms.the boardisbackatworkplanningforsummerandfall events.pleaseshareyourthoughtsandideaswithus aboutanynewandpotentiallyexcitingclubrelated activities. Keeponplanting, Phuc JuneSpeaker ErnestoSandoval PlantHormones PlantHormones,Howtheyworkandaffectthegrowth ofourplantsnotveryvisualinthattherearen'talot ofprettypicturesbut quitementallyeye openingformost gardeners,eventhose withlotsofexperience, fromthefeedbacki've receivedoverthispast year(2013).helps themunderstandwhy thingshappenwhen plantsareprunedand propagated. Ernestohasbeenwonderingandseeking questionstowhyplantslookthewaythattheydofora longtime.nowheexplainsandinterpretstheworldof plantstoavarietyofagesandexperiencesfromk12 toprofessionalsandmastergardeners.heregularly lecturestogardenclubsthroughouttheyearand particularlytosucculentclubsthroughoutthestate andelsewheresincethatgroupofplantsishis particularpassionwithinhisgeneralpassionfor plants.hedescribeshimselfasajoseofallplants masterofnone.ernestothoroughlyenjoyshelping others,andgardenersinparticular,tounderstandwhy plantsdowhattheydo. Whenhewasabout13heaskedhisdadwhy onetreewasprunedaparticularwayandanothertree anotherway.hisdadansweredbluntly"becausethat's thewayyoudoit. Sincethenhe'sbeenlearningand teachinghimselftheanswerstothoseandmanyother questionsbygettingadegreeatucdavisinbotany andworkingfromstudentweeder/waterertodirector overthelast22yearsattheucdavisbotanical Conservatory. MiniShowResults,April2014 CactiEchinopsis Intermediate Small 1 st Echinopsissp.,RayCardenas Large 1 st Echinopsissp.,DavidHawks 2 nd Echinopsishybrid,JudyHorne 3 rd Echinopsissubdenudata,DianaRoman Advanced Large 1 st Echinopsissp.,Greg&AnnaCavanaugh Monsonia,Agave Novice Small 1 st Agavedasyliriodes,RicoLeon 2 nd Agavecv.Blueball,RicoLeon Large 1 st Agavevictoriareginae,DickHammer Intermediate Small 1 st Agavevictoriareginae,DavidHawks 2 nd Agavefilifera,RayCardenas 2 nd Agavesp.DianaRoman 3 rd Agaveapplanata,RayCardenas Large 1 st Agavenigra,RayCardenas 2 nd Agaveangustifolia,DianaRoman 2 nd Agaveamericanamediopicta,DianaRoman 3 rd Agavesp.,DianaRoman Advanced Small 1 st Agavecv.BlueGlow,Greg&Anna Cavanaugh 2 nd Agavevictoriareginae,BobLaughlin 3 rd Agavestricta nana,boblaughlin Large 1 st Agavevictoriareginae,BobLaughlin 2 nd Agavecolorata,TonyMarino 3 rd Agavevictoriareginae,BobLaughlin Kitchen Duty for June 2014 CarylLyons,AnhLam ThankYou! Judges Signed Up for May 2014 NoSignUp ThankYou!

3 Show&Sale WrapUpMeeting GatesShow&Sale2014 Participantsinthisyear sshow&saleare invitedtoawrapupmeetingtokickideasaround abouthowtomaketheeventbetter.thingsthat wentright,thingsthatwentwrong.howcanwe improveandgrowtheevent. SaturdayeveningJune14,at4:00PMatthe Hemenways,5890GrinnellDr,RiversideCA.Buck cooksaroastandeveryoneelsebringssaladsand desserts IjustwanttosayTHANKYOUtoallofthe clubvolunteersthathelpedwiththeevent.it sa lotofworkandwereallyspreadtheeffort.from thesetupcrewtoteardown,itcouldnothave beenbetter.patyourselvesontheback.nice JOB! ThesaleswerearecordforGates.Over $13,000.Theexpenseswerealsohigh,butwe coveredourcostsandtheclubwillkeeparound $500.Wewillworkonbuildingthesalessothat thiseventwillbemoreprofitableinthefuture. OurfirsteverShowDinnerandAuction wasasuccess.iamsurethatthememberswho attendedwerepleasantlysurprisedatthequality ofplantmaterial,pots,etcthatwereavailableto buy.morenextyear. TheWaterDistrictwasveryhappywiththe eventaswell.itlookslikewewillbuildanice relationshipthatcanlastforyearstocome. OnceagainTHANKS! Buck Experts in The Garden We will participate in a forum-like event at the same gardens as held the Show on June 14. Please see Phuc if you are interested. CACTUS RESCUE Just a reminder about our cactus rescue program; it's a great way for our members to acquire new specimens at a relatively low cost, and all funds go directly to our club. If you or anybody you know want to donate plants or an entire collection, contact Ray Cardenas or any other board member. We will collect and transport the plants, make arrangements for their care, prepare them for sale, and make them available to our club. Ray Cardenas.2014PlantsoftheMonth CACTI SUCCULENTS June Gymnocalycium Euphorbia July Photograph Photograph August Crests/ Monstrose/ Variegates Crests, Monstrose, Variegates September Opuntiadeae Sanseviera October Ariocarpus Stapeliads November Auction December Holiday Party CALENDAR OF UP COMING EVENTS FOR 2013/14 June 7 & 8 San Diego Cactus & Succulent Society Show & Sale, Balboa Park, Room 101, San Diego, Info: June 14 & 15 Los Angeles C&SS Show & Sale, Sepulveda Garden Center, Magnolia Blvd., Encino CA, June CSSA Annual Show & Sale, Huntington Botanical Garden, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA, Sales June 27-29, Show June 28 & 29. You must get a sticker to enter. WHERE TO FIND STUFF Your club library is a fantastic resource for information about the plants in your collection!

4 Trophy and Rosette Awards 2014 Best Echinocereus: Echinocereus polyacanthus ssp. pacifica Best Plant in Show: Best Cactus in Show: Adenia spinosa Mammillaria compressa Kim Urman Best Succulent in Show: Calibanus hookeri Best Cactus Novice: Mammillaria plumosa Chuck Bernard Best Succulent Novice: Jatropha cathartica Dick Hammer Best Junior in Show: Senecio scaposus Ben Marino Best Lithops: Best Opuntioideae: Lithops salitocola John Matthews Maihueniopsis bonnieae Jen & Darryl Craig Best Gymnocalycium: Gymnocalycium horstii Greg & Anna Cavanaugh High Points Sweepstakes: Other Awards & Statistics Number of entries in Show: 432 Number of exhibitors: 22-1 Junior 8 Intermediate 3 Novice 10 Advanced Best Euphorbia: Best Ferocactus: Best Haworthia: Best Mammillaria: Best Mexican Cactus: Euphorbia decaryi Peter Walkowiak Ferocactus chrysacanthus Cap & Peg Strano Haworthia maughanii John Matthews Mammillaria bocasana Greg & Anna Cavanaugh Stenocereus eruca High Points Succulent: 1 st Buck & Yvonne Hemenway (55) 2 nd Isabelle Moon (54) 3 rd Karen Roholt (49) High Points Cactus: 1 st (91) 2 nd Greg & Anna Cavanaugh (32) 3 rd John O Kane (27) Overall High Points SWEEPSTAKES : 1 st (120) 2 nd Buck & Yvonne Hemenway (77) 3 rd Isabelle Moon (65) Best S. American Cactus: Pygmaeocereus bylesianus Best Aloe: Best Agave: Best Sansevieria: Odd-ball Plant: Aloe nobilis variegata Agave utahensis v. eborisina Sansevieria gracilis Espostoa melanostele monstrosa Greg & Anna Cavanaugh Rosettes Best Advanced Cactus Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus Best Advanced Succulent Pachypodium lealii v. saundersii, Buck & Yvonne Hemenway Best Intermediate Cactus Mammillaria microthele, Cap & Peg Strano Best Intermediate Succulent Euphorbia Collection Judges Choice Cactus Turbinicarpus gielsdorfianus, Greg & Anna Cavanaugh Judges Choice Succulent Monsonia pattersonii,

5 GatesCactus&SucculentSociety39 th AnnualShow&Sale TheShowisready! OurBestSaleEver! JoellaCame! Phuc&Barrysolvingourissues That sacactus! TrophyTable Isittimetogohomeyet? ThankstoKim,TrishaandTonyforthepicturespostedonourFacebookpage.

6 PLANT of the MONTH Gymnocalycium Buck Hemenway The genus Gymnocalycium is readily indentified by the flower buds. In fact the name itself is descriptive. Gymno is Greek for naked and the calyx of the plant is the outer skin of the bud and its stem which are free of any kind of hairs or spines. There continues to be much discussion between taxonomists as to which plants to include and how to separate the species, but a new publication by Graham Charles Gymnocalycium in Habitat and Culture, published n 2009, is the latest definitive text, So take a look at the gymno s in your collection and notice the naked calyx and you ll be able to place them properly in the genus. The genius is exclusively South American in origin and most of it exists in NW Argentina. Someone forgot to tell them, so a few of the species occur in Bolivia, Uruguay and Brazil as well. For the most part the flowers of this genus are soft colored and vary from off white to deep pink. Very complex flowers with many ranks of petals. While technically not selffertile, our local pollinating critters do a good job of taking care of this requirement. The seed pods tend to be large and the seed is large and very easy to start in the spring. The plants can be either offsetting to form nice sized clumps or remain solitary. Most will become basketball sized with age. They are very easy to grow in Southern California, provided they have some shade in the heat of summer. Most of them occur at high elevation and even then their native habitat, is in grasses, behind rocks and under shrubs, we need to pay attention to these needs with our collection plants. The plant bodies themselves range widely in color and spination. From the densely and long-spined G. pungens to the nearly naked G. horstii they give us a wide range of structures to appreciate. Gymnocalyciums should definitely be in everyone s collection. Gymnocalycium horstii ssp. buenekerii Gymnocalycium bruschii Gymnocalycium saglionis

7 Euphorbia By: Buck Hemenway This is one of the largest genera of plants on our earth. Attempts are ongoing to reorganize this genus so it is more manageable for those of us who enjoy the plants and like to know more about them. Members of the Euphorbia genus occur on every continent on earth except Antarctica. For the purposes of the mini-show, we will accept plants in the genera Euphorbia, Jatropha, and Monadenium Euphorbia plants are recognizable, in the main, by the white milky latex sap that they have in them. Breaking a stem or poking a plant s epidermis will produce this sap. The sap is always poisonous and can cause caustic burns for some people. We recognize around 2,000 taxa of plants that are considered succulent from the Euphorbia genus. Most of them are endemic to the Old World, Africa, Arabian Peninsula all the way to India. We have some in the New World including the group related to the Gopher Spurge such as Euphorbia rigida from Central America and others such as Euphorbia misera from Baja California. Euphorbia plants take on many shapes and forms that are familiar to those of us who study desert plants. They range from plants that mainly grow below the ground, to low growing shrubby plants to grand upright stem plants. They occur mainly in places that are arid, but can be found in situations that are quite humid with high rainfall amounts growing on rocky outcrops fast draining soils. Flowers on Euphorbia plants are nearly all extremely small and normally yellow in color. Many of these insignificant flowers are surrounded by colorful showy bracts as in Poinsettia, Crown of Thorns (Euphorbia milii). While we don t grow them for their showy flowers, we enjoy the fantastic shapes and other unusual growth forms that they exhibit. Many Euphorbia plants grow extremely well in the Inland Empire. A little care when selecting plants for landscape purposes can lead to great rewards. Euphorbias tend to be fairly resistant to the pests that attack our other succulent plants. Occasionally, mealy bugs will be present, but for the most part they will remain pest free. Normal pest treatment will be successful. Euphorbia flanagannii Euphorbia obesa Euphorbia ammack, variegata

8 From: Gates Cactus & Succulent Society 5890 Grinnell Dr Riverside, CA FIRST CLASS MAIL