TCSS Rescue Cacti for Sale

Lots & lots to choose from…..

Barrels - from 2” to 14” diameter (about $1 per inch)
Hedgehogs – from 1 to 20 heads (about $1 per head)
TCSS Club Members receive a 15% discount June 2004
Call Joe or Patsy if interested 575-7126
Thursday, June 3, 2004
TCSS BOARD 7:00 pm
New Members: Welcome to the following new members. Detailed information will be included in the new
roster that will be issued at midyear. Officers Polycephalus, microphylla and confertifolia…oh my!
President: Richard Wiedhopf Cono Rojo, Sierra del Pinacate, Sonora, Mexico
Karen L Abels Wendy Hill Herb & Sarah Morris 885-6367
Pamela Bass Terry Jennings Carl Noggle Vice President: Kevin Barber
Richard Brennis Dale & August Johnson John Palting Secretary: Lynda Ryan Just south of Organ Pipe National Monument,
Michael Brewer Ken Kay & Karen K Cristensen Alyce Pennington & Rick Trapp
Treasurer: Valarie Miller 32 miles south of the U.S./Mexico border, lies
Leah Buchta & Bryan Starrett Brad & Muriel Knudson Jane Price Board of Directors: the Sierra del Pinacate. The Pinacate is
Thatcher Building Supply Jan Konstanty & Pat Wallace Audrey Quick Past-President: Vonn Watkins located in the southeast corner of the Gran
Keith & Carrie Burkard S. Roberta Kurtz Dorothy C Sterns Gail Virtes (2004) Desierto del Altar, one of the hottest, driest
Dan Ginter Dixie L Langdon Diane K Szollosi
Barry McCormick (2004) regions in the Sonoran Desert. Join
Jack Ramsey (2004) horticulturist Cory Martin in viewing images
Helen Gutierrez Theola Ann Lindeman & James W Nancy Tom Joe Frannea (2005)
John C Higgins Shockey Cathy M. Woodard Marty Harow (2005)
of the vegetation that manages to eke out a
Peter Hubbell (2005) meager living in this “desolate” place.
Photos by Joe Frannea and Barry McCormick. Artwork by Vonn Watkins Dan Birt (2006)
Cory Martin spent three years at Bach’s
Chris Monrad (2006)
Mark Sitter (2006) Cactus Nursery prior to his four-year tenure at
CSSA Affiliate Rep: Helen Barber the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. At the
Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society Cactus Rescue: Chris Monrad
museum Cory cares for the Convergent
7510 E. Rio Verde Rd. Educational: Joe Frannea Evolution exhibit, Desert Grasslands, Cat Canyon, Desert Loop Trail,
Tucson, AZ 85715-3537 Free Plants: Norma Beckman Cactus Garden and Boojums. Cory also leads hikes for the Arizona Native
Librarian: Jenny Coniglio Plant Society and occasionally gives classes on landscaping with succulents
Programs: Kevin Barber and potted succulent care.
Refreshments: Patsy Frannea
Sales: Jack Ramsey
Technology: Kevin Barber
Editor: Barry McCormick
jbarrymcc@earthlink.net Thursday, July 1, 2004
Deadline for copy:18th of each month John Shaefer
TCSS Web Page:www.tucsoncactus.org
One of our members, John Shaefer. will show some of his fabulous
Next Meeting
Thursday, June 3 at 7:00 pm
photographs of cactus and succulents.
Junior League of Tucson
2099 E. River Road
Tucson Meeting Place
Parking Junior League of Tucson
June Refreshments Kiva Bldg.
Those with family names beginning with 2099 E. River Road

Campell

Camino Escuela
N to S, please bring your choice of 299-5753
refreshment to the meeting.
Everyone is Welcome!
Bring your friends, join in the fun,
River Road
and meet the cactus and succulent St. Phillip’s
community. Plaza

President’s Message
Thank you for your
participation at the Sonoran V
Conference. You made it a
major success. The speakers
and workshops received
excellent evaluations and
total sales were more than 2.5
times that of Sonoran IV.
Thirty members brought in
140 plants for the show, all wonderful specimens.
Thanks to all who donated plants for the silent
auction and time to put it all together. Sonoran VI is
only 23 months away and your evaluation of
Sonoran V will be very helpful as we start our plans
for Sonoran VI. We will have evaluation forms at
the June meeting or email me your thoughts about
the conference or ideas for a Sonoran VI theme.
On Sunday, September 26, 2004 we will bring back
the thirty-year tradition of a Members Silent
Auction. This will make this a great Sunday
Special. Our intent is to have several silent auctions
closing at 15 minute intervals, a live auction, a
“Dutch” auction (multiple plants are offered with the
high bidder having first choice of one or all of the
plants and any balance available to other bidders at
the high bid price) and refreshments. After a long
summer of growing, there are always pups and
offsets available to share, which was how this
tradition got started. More information will be
available in August.
Please let us know if there are any changes made to
your membership information. In July, you will
receive an updated roster of all current members.
We will print name(s), address, home phone and
email(s). The roster is for members only and is not
to be used for any commercial purposes. Your
information will not appear on our Web site.
Please wear your membership badge to the
meetings. Your badge will get you a door prize
ticket. If you have not picked up your new badge,
they are available at the membership table as you
enter the meeting room. You should keep the badge
and bring it with you to TCSS events.
Library
Your library has purchased a collection tours and special monthly exhibits. If you
number of new books that will be have ideas about what you would like your society to
fifty new members have joined our society in the last available for check out at the June present, please contact Barry McCormick. Look for an
month. We have become one of the largest societies in meeting. We will be converting to a interesting column next month.
the country. Be sure and greet a new member! bar code system this summer. Each
Dick Wiedhopf, President member will have a bar code Sonoran V – We all did it!
attached to his or her badge and the books will be
As this month’s insert shows,
A Cereus Cactus Rescue bar coded. This will make check out and return fast
Sonoran V was a great
and simple and allow us to
success. It was also a major
The cactus rescue crew locate all of our library
undertaking.
had a change of pace on holdings quickly. More
April 28 when they details will be forthcoming. All of the members of the
assembled to rescue one This is one of the many Tucson Cactus and Succulent
cactus. The landmark projects of our technology Society made the show
Cereus ‘Peruvianus’ has committee. happen. Volunteers gave
stood for many years in generously of their time and talents, and all efforts
The new titles include
front of the Firestone were greatly appreciated. Assisting at the show,
Seven Volumes of the
store on First Avenue. bringing plants, buying from our member vendors,
Cactus & Co. Journal,
But it had to go to make admiring the art show, passing out flyers – hundreds of
Succulents for the Contemporary
way for a new sign and things that added up to a great result. Thank you all!
Garden by Yvonne Cave, Prickly Pear
some renovation. The crew had been poised since Cookbook by Carolyn Niethammer, Pachyforms by Preliminary planning fell primarily to the TCSS board,
February to tackle this giant; we finally got the chance.
Philippe de Vosjoli, Rebutia by John Pilbeam, and with Dick Wiedhopf in charge of registration, Jack
The results were Cacti, Other Succulents, and Unusual Xerophytes of Ramsey planning the show and sale, and Vonn
available for members Southern Arizona by Matt Johnson. Watch for them Watkins and Kevin Barber arranging speakers and
at the Friday Sonoran on the library table. workshops. Blair Kuropatkin did publicity and Gail
V meeting, and were Dick Wiedhopf Virtes coordinated with the vendors. The plant show
sold throughout the Weird Plant Sale was staged by Linda Ryan; Barry McCormick printed
weekend. In addition the plant labels and John Swarbrick handled the
to adding to the incoming plants. Brian Hurd and Jimi Asencio
The Tucson Botanical Garden
Society coffers, the trucked many of them to the show. Helen Ramsey
hosts their annual Weird Plant
rescue has sent clones minded the display.
Sale on Saturday, June 12 from
of this fine specimen 8 am to noon. There will be a Jack Ramsey arranged the silent auction and Wayne
throughout Tucson. member-only pre-sale on Johnson and Ed and Alice Campbell assisted.
Friday, June 11 from 5:30 to
Joe and Patsy Frannea oversaw the rescue sales, and
A Great Sale at Sonoran V! 7:30 pm. TCSS will be selling rescue plants at the
Helen Barber trained and managed the cash register
Gross rescue sales at Sonoran V exceeded $1700. This sale.
crew of Blair Kuropatkin, Arlene Johnson, Ann
caps our great four-sale season of the Fiesta de las There will also be a Weird Plant Film Experience
Grodzicki and Paul Federico.
Flores, Pima County Country Fair, Hacienda del Sol, the previous weekend at the Loft Cinema, featuring
and Sonoran V. All told this year The registration desk was handled primarily by Marty
a showing of the Little Shop of Horrors. This fund-
we have placed almost 2000 cacti & Barbara Harow, Margaret Pope, and Gail and
raising event is described on the TBG web site at
into Tucson gardens, at gross George Virtes.
www.tucsonbotanical.org.
proceeds of about $10,500. After
Patsy Frannea designed and made the banquet
tag costs and expenses we have
Container Growing centerpieces, using cactus seedlings supplied by Dick
raised in excess of $7000 to support
Weidkopf.
our club activities, primarily the To reflect the growing interest in the
school grant program and research grants. Well done Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society in Feel free to make your comments and suggestions to
to all of the members who rescue, sell, buy and support container grown plants, we are planning those responsible for particular areas so we can
this important program. to initiate a column for this newsletter continue to improve the conferences.
Joe Frannea and various other programs such as