Events

Next Monthly Meeting

April 14, 2024

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Last year’s spring sale was a sellout. Don’t miss this opportunity to pick up some quality plants at cost – but you must be an HSCSS member.

Program: Members Plant Sale

HSCSS meetings are held at Missouri Botanical Garden facilities. See details and weather policy below. We also usually broadcast via Zoom for those who cannot attend.

Meet Via Zoom
Meeting ID: 846 6776 5973 / Passcode: 900328

Once again, our annual HSCSS Members Plant Sale will be the April program. The sale will start between 1:15 and 1:30 – once all plants are in place – at our regular meeting location in Missouri Botanical Garden’s Commerce Bank Center for Science Education.

We will be offering plants from Botanic Wonders, Cactus Data Plants, Kelly Grummon’s Cold Hardy Cactus and Ethical Desert. You’ll have plenty of time to scout the great variety, with something for everyone from beginners to obsessive/compulsive collectors. We will sell these for what it costs us to bring them here and prepare them for the tables.

Similar to past sales, an organized number system will give everyone the chance to choose the plants they want. Once the tables clear, we’ll draw numbers for the opportunity to purchase rarer, more expensive plant specimens.

Please bring a box or two to make the transport of your plants convenient. Use cash, checks or credit cards to make your purchases. All plants will be priced in even dollar amounts to make the math and checkout more efficient. Keep in mind that most of these plants will be shipped bare-root. Within a few weeks, it would be advisable (although not necessary) to repot sale plants into your own growing mix.

If time permits, we’ll answer questions about sale plants and also make time for brag plants.


Zoom

Zoom is a videoconferencing software program that allows multiple users with higher-speed Internet connections to “meet” via desktop computers and mobile devices. The Zoom web browser client will download automatically when you start or join your first Zoom meeting, and is also available for manual download at https://Zoom.us/download.

The club sends e-mail reminders containing a link to Zoom and the meeting ID. Zoom meeting information is also provided in the Digest newsletter. If you need additional help or would like to practice using Zoom, please contact one of the following members well before the meeting:

Susan Carpentier – cuervo28@swbell.net
Nikki Murdick – nmurdick@gmail.com
Marge Williams – maggiewms@aol.com


Meeting Location, Times, Weather Policy

Commerce Bank Center for Science Education (Dogwood Room #125)
4651 Shaw Boulevard
St. Louis, Missouri 63110
(Several blocks west of main Missouri Botanical Garden entrance)

1:00-1:45 p.m. – Building opens, social hour
1:45-2:00 p.m. – Show and tell
2:00-3:00 p.m. – Program
3:00-3:15 p.m. – Break
3:15-4:00 p.m. – Business meeting

Weather Policy

When Missouri Botanical Garden is closed or travel becomes unsafe due to extreme weather conditions, HSCSS will cancel its scheduled in-person meetings and events. If practical, activities may proceed online via Zoom. HSCSS will post cancellation notices online and also distribute e-mail alerts following directors’ weather-related decisions.


Upcoming HSCSS Events

2024 Events

  • January 14, 2024 – Monthly Meeting – Seed Workshop
  • February 11, 2024 – Monthly Meeting – Growing Euphorbias
  • March 10, 2024 – Monthly Meeting – Repotting and Staging
  • April 14, 2024 – Monthly Meeting – Members Spring Plant Sale
    Pick up great plants from Botanic Wonders, Cactus Data, Ethical Desert and Kelly Grummon’s Cold-Hardy Cacti.
  • May 5, 2024 – Monthly Meeting – Outdoor Exodus
  • June 9, 2024 – Monthly Meeting – Show Program
  • July 20-21, 2024 – Annual Show and Sale
  • August 11, 2024 – Monthly Meeting
  • September 8, 2024 – HSCSS Picnic
  • October 13, 2024 – Monthly Meeting
  • November 10, 2024 – Monthly Meeting
  • December 8, 2024 – HSCSS Winter Party Gala

Other Succulent Events

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Presented by the Santa Fe Cactus and Succulent Club, the 18th Biennial Mid States Cactus and Succulent Conference will feature nationally known speakers, plant and pottery vendors, receptions and an auction. “Come for the cacti, stay for Santa Fe.”