Hi All! June 7th will be our next monthly cactus meeting! The meeting will start at 7:00PM at the Arboretum

Please bring your recent acquisitions, Mammillarias, Mesembs, and any blooming plants. We will also be having a Weird Plant Contest!

Join us at 12PM CST for another CSSA Webinar!

Discover the depth and duration of human and Agave coevolution across the desert southwest and learn about the unusual Agaves apparently associated with archaeological sites that were abandoned long ago. These Agaves appear to be anthropogenic cultivars – living archaeological relics developed and planted by indigenous Native Americans – and many are still growing exactly where they were planted hundreds of years ago.

You must register in advance using the link below to participate

Hi All! May 3rd will be our next monthly cactus meeting! Going forward our meetings will start at 7:00 PM and not our Usual 7:30PM. We will still be meeting at the Arboretum as per usual. Hope to see you there!

Join us at 12PM CST for another CSSA webinar!

The Succulent Collection of Babylonstoren Farm is situated near Paarl in the Western Cape. It has a Mediterranean type climate with long dry summers. The succulent section on this farm was started 6 years ago and consists of  several rockeries, biomes garden, succulent house and a newly added outdoor Welwitschia garden where plants from the Namib are grown (from seed). This garden is focused mainly on succulents from southern Africa and is run like a botanical garden using the IRIS accessioning system.

You must register in advance using the link below to participate

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5ON7eir4SKuE4Nf_GxbBIw

Join us at 12PM CST on April 16th for another CSSA Webinar!

Program: Exploring the Best of Our Wonderful Mammillarias; “Normals” and Their Strange Variations There are about 200 recognized species in the genus Mammillaria, making it one of the largest members of the cactus family. Everyone has at least one, and it is usually the first cactus in a collection. Because of this, the entire genus is sometimes viewed as uninteresting or common, but this program explores the joy of finding the oddities of a “normal” species.

You must register in advance using the link below to participate:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dJ-28HdSTlGhdqgHAosJsQ

Hi All!

Our monthly meeting will be Tuesday, April 5th at 7:30PM at the Arboretum. We will be having an ugliest plant contest and plant raffle.

Feel free to also bring some of your “mystery plants” to the meeting to see if some of our members can identify them.

Hope to see you there!

Hi All!

It is our pleasure to announce we will be hosting our annual plant sale at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens again this year! We will have a wide selection of plants available and the schedule will be as follows:

7am – 4pm for Members

9am – 4pm for General Public

We hope to see you there!

Join us at 12PM CST for another CSSA Webinar!

The Canary Islands consist of 8 volcanic islands and some uninhabited rocks, located just over 60 miles off the Western African coast. They are often referred to as the “Galapagos Islands of Botany” because of the large number of endemic plants that have adapted to the surprisingly diverse ecological niches that exist on this limited area.

With about 100 species, especially of the Crassulaceae, but also of the Euphorbiaceae, Apocynaceae, and Aizoaceae families, succulent plants make up an important part of this endemism.

For this talk, Wolfgang has made a personal selection of the most impressive succulent plants and their habitats, covering all islands and all relevant vegetation zones. 

You must register in advance using the link below to participate

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_naVPteD5TaOHGjXXT6Vaew

Join us at 12PM CST for another CSSA Webinar!

Robert Webb has been giving a series of talks about Euphorbias. In this installment, he explores some of the intermediate-scale species of Euphorbia. The focus will be on plants in Yemen, East Africa, South Africa, and Namibia with some discussion of horticulture and propagation. Using an approach of mostly field-cultivation images, he will discuss some of the interesting species of Euphorbias in these two groups.

You must register in advance using the link below to participate

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_diJ1AELxRuqdiWdWvCHyJw

Hi All! February’s Cactus Club meeting will be held at 7:30PM on February 1st at the Arboretum. As always, raffle tickets will be available for $5.00. See you there!