California Horticultural Society

California Horticultural Society An educational, non-profit organization dedicated to bringing together gardeners and garden professionals to share experiences.

Well it has happened, the Brunsvigia josephinae I received from plantswoman extraordinaire Kathy Echols has bloomed. Th...
09/03/2024

Well it has happened, the Brunsvigia josephinae I received from plantswoman extraordinaire Kathy Echols has bloomed. Thank you Kathy!

South Africn Amaryllid Geophytes for California is the title of the program to be delivered online Monday, October 18, ...
10/03/2021

South Africn Amaryllid Geophytes for California
is the title of the program to be delivered online
Monday, October 18, 2021, at 6:30 p.m. online by our speaker, Ken Blackford.

A long-time hobbyist gardener with a special interest in cacti, succulents and other xeric plants, Ken was an active member of both the San Francisco and Oakland Cacti & Succulent Societies, volunteering as a docent at the Ruth Bancroft Garden under Richard Turner’s directorship. He was already growing Amaryllis belladonna (Naked Ladies) when Ruth herself, and another docent, Wayne Roderick, helped expand his interests in other South African geophytes in the Amaryllidaceae.

When Ken moved to San Diego he incorporated this group of bulbs into his garden there. He has done experimental hybridizing, including some intergeneric hybrids between some of the closely related Amaryllids. He plans to talk about Amaryllis, Boophone, Brunsvigia, Cyrtanthus, and perhaps a few others, and will discuss their potential for landscape and/or pot use in California.

Zoom information will be mailed to Cal Hort members and members of our sister organizations.

Members of Cal Hort and sister organizations will receive Zoom information by email for September 20 General MeetingAt 7...
09/17/2021

Members of Cal Hort and sister organizations will receive Zoom information by email for September 20 General Meeting

At 7 p.m. the presentation will be given by Cristóbal Elgueta, a forestry engineer and has worked as a landscaper for more than twenty years, inspired by the dynamics and ecology of the plant communities of central Chile, where color, texture, and wildlife accompany a rugged and imposing landscape. His current goal of work and research is that the garden connects whoever lives it with the richness and extraordinary dynamism of nature.

The plant forum begins at 6:30 p.m. and those wishing to participate should send photos and information for the plants as instructed in the email sent to all members.

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