Officers
President
Ray Lemieux
Vice President
Mick Garza
Secretary
David Denholm
Treasurer
Susan Stobo
ENCHOLIRIUM MAGALHAESII IS A DRY-ADAPTED, SUCCULENT BROMELIAD FROM SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL.
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Sarasota Bromeliad Society Monthly Meeting
LOCATION: Selby Gardens
DATE: August 11, 2014
TIME: 7:30 PM
EXTRAS AND NEWS:
Special raffle drawing for folks who bring food Bring some tasty food or drinks and
become eligible for a special door prize plant! If you plan to bring something, please let Kay Weber
([email protected]) or Judy Herman ([email protected]) know so they can coordinate the
refreshments.
Workshop—6:45 Nick Mavrikas will talk about cultivation techniques for miniature neoregelias
and (big!) alcantareas. Nick always gives a great workshop, so come learn how he grows these
interesting plants.
UPCOMING MEETING:
Minutes of the July meeting—included in the newsletter, at the end.
Business:
MSBG Lights in Bloom—President Ray Lemieux will have a sign-up sheet for participation in
the the (evening) Christmastime Lights in Bloom show at Selby Gardens, Dec. 22. This is a fun and
beautiful show. We need about 20 SBS volunteers. Volunteers get in free! Don’t be shy, sign up.
Show and Sale
Theme “Bromeliads—Cornucopias of Color.” Unless someone has a different idea, this is the
theme of our show. This theme will make it fun to decorate for the show!
Want to sell bromeliads at our show (we sell only bromeliads)? You’ll need to get a sales
number and sales tags from Bob Stickney. Your sales number must be written on all sale tags.
Each plant must have two tags—one with the plant name and another with your sales number and
the price of the plant. The SBS keeps 25% of all sales money. Plant prices must be in whole-dollar
amounts. Plants must be clean and free of scale. The sales play a big part in the success of our
show. Please consider selling plants at the sale. It’s fun, it’s easy, and you’ll make money and get
rid of excess bromeliads at the same time!
Want to show plants at our show? Now is the time to start singling them out. Don’t move them,
just keep track of them. If you think they’re show-worthy, then they’re happily growing at their
present location. Moving them will change their growing conditions, so just leave them.
What kind of plants should you show? Show whatever looks good or interesting to you. The show is
judged, but winning prizes isn’t the only reason to show plants. Your fellow SBS members and the
general public will be interested in any plants that are unusual, colorful, or unique. It’s loads of fun to
participate in the Show and Sale, even if you show only one plant. That plant just might win an
award.
Want to help with the show? Below is the list of show chairs and general tasks that committees
perform. Please volunteer for a committee. It’s great fun and you’ll get to know your fellow members
better.
Committee
Duties
Chairperson
Chair
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General
Chair
Co-Chair
Auction
Awards
Banquet
Cleanup
Clerks
Educational
Exhibit
Entries
Hostess
Judges
Oversees all other show chairs; ensures that they perform
their duties in a timely manner; attends to miscellaneous
details
Assists General Show Chair with organization of show and
oversight of other show committees
Contacts SBS members and other bromeliad growers and
nurseries to obtain high-quality bromeliads for auction (at
least 50 needed). Organizes and executes auction
(about 8 PM, Sat., Nov. 8--at least three people are
needed to execute the auction).
Obtains all awards associated with judging show entries;
provides award cards and judging ballots as needed;
ensures that awards are placed with correct plants in
show after judging is completed
Organizes banquet for Sat. night (Nov. 8). Ensures that
sufficient food, drinks, cocktail mixers, eating plates and
utensils, and table settings are ready at the appropriate
times. Oversees cleanup of dinner and preparation of
tables for the auction, which follows dinner.
Organizes clean-up and, when needed reorganization of
show room, after judging (Friday 5 PM), before and after
banquet (5 PM and about 10 PM, Sat., Nov 8), and after
show is over (4 PM, Sunday, Nov. 9). Ensures that
sufficient people are present at each of these times to
participate in clean-up activities.
Organizes a group of at least 9 clerks to assist judges with
judging the show (12 PM – about 5 PM, Friday, Nov. 7).
Ensures that sufficient clerks are available for all show
judging activities.
Terrie Bert
????
Ray Lemieux (needs 34
volunteers
to
assist with auction)
Terrie Bert
Pam & Steve Upton
(need 1-2 volunteers
to assist)
Mick
Garza,
John
Osteen
(need
t
members to clean up
& organize for each
different activity)
Shirley Evans (needs 610
volunteers
to
serve
as
clerks
during show judging;
number depends on
number of judges)
Prepares and displays an exhibit for educating the public ????
about bromeliads
Accepts entries; assists members with correctly filling out Terrie Bert (needs to 2entry forms; properly documents entries and gives plants
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volunteers
to
to Placement Committee; oversees committee that
assist with entries)
assists in performing these tasks (9 AM – 7 PM Thurs.
Nov. 6, 9 AM – 11 AM, Fri., Nov. 7)
Organizes people to host the show during all open hours Michael
Beal,
Meg
(10 AM – 5 PM Sat., Nov. 8; 1 PM – 4 PM Sun., Nov. 9).
Larabee, Eva Talbert,
Ensures that traditional plant raffle and voting for Visitor’s
Sara de Godoi (need
Choice plant run smoothly and are fully executed.
volunteers to serve
as hosts/hostesses
during all open show
hours; at least one
member must be
serving at any time)
Ken Phelps—promised
basket of bromeliads
for show plant raffle
For standard BSI judged shows: recruits sufficient number Terrie Bert
of judges to expediciously judge show entries (usually 9
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Judges
Luncheon &
other
refreshment
needs
Placement
Photography
Publicity
Sales
Staging
Security
Show
Schedule
or 12); obtains gifts for judges (usually $15 or $20 gift
certificates valid for purchase of show sales plants);
ensures that judges’ luncheon and morning snack and
beverages are provided the day of judging; ensures that
awards are correctly assigned to winning plants. For
nonstandard shows: ensures that judging ballots are
provided for all judging.
Oversees the obtaining of food and all serving and eating
utensils and equipment for Judges Luncheon (12 PM,
Fri., Nov. 7) and for show and sale workers (8:30 AM,
Fri., Nov. 7). Oversees care of leftover food, etc. and
ensures that show and sale workers have access to it
during the show and sale. Disposes of remaining food at
end of show (4 PM, Sunday, Nov. 9)
Ensures that workers are available to place bromeliads
entered in the show appropriately for judging (9 AM – 7
PM, Thurs., Nov. 6); assists with repositioning of plants
after judging (about 5 PM, Fri., Nov. 7)
Photographs show plants, particularly all those winning
awards (any time Sat. Nov. 8 or Sun., Nov. 9)
Inez Dolatowski—committee assists with providing
information about the Show and Sale to numerous local
and regional newspapers, magazines, radio, TV,
website, and other social media in a timely manner.
Bob Stickney—committee assists with setting up sales
area, with selling bromeliads during sales hours, and with
cleaning up after sale (9 AM – 5 PM, Fri., Nov. 7; 10 AM
– 5 PM, Sat., Nov. 8; 1 PM – 5 PM, Sun., Nov. 9) NOTE:
all people selling plants are expected to participate in this
committee.
Oversees setup for Show (in community center and Sale
(in yard) (8 AM – 10 AM, Thurs, Nov. 6)
Ron Quick (needs 1-2
volunteers to assist
with
purchasing
luncheon food and
eating items
and
with serving and
cleanup after lunch)
Judy Herman (needs
one volunteers to
help with placement)
Michael Beal
Inez Dolatowski, David
Johnson
Bob
Stickney
(all
members
selling
plants must help
with plant sales)
Steve Upton (needs at
least 2 members to
volunteer to assist)
Ensures that at least one person is responsible for Everyone
guarding show plants (in community center) and sale
plants (in yard) (all hours of show). PROBLEM: How will
sale plants be secured overnight?
Prepares Guidelines for Entering Plants into SBSShows Terrie Bert
for distribution to members wishing to show or sell plants
in the annual show and sale; prepares show pamphlet for
general distribution; ensures that all appropriate
members are provided with these documents; in years of
Standard BSI Shows, submits both documents to the BSI
Show Chair for approval prior to distributing the
documents to members and judges.
Program—Teresa Cooper, University of Florida entomologist. Teresa will be talking about the
“Evil Weevil,’ which attacks bromeliads in Florida. Come listen and learn about research on this
nasty bug and learn how to kill it.
Teresa s an entomologist who works at the University of Florida Indian River Research and
Education Center in Ft. Pierce, Florida. She studies invasive insects in Florida and works to control
these insects using biological control. Biological control is the use of a beneficial organism to control
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a pest organism. Dr. Cooper’s primary project is the Mexican bromeliad weevil, an invasive
bromeliad-eating weevil that is destroying native bromeliads in Florida. She began studying the
weevil when she was a graduate student at the University of Florida, Entomology and Nematology
Department. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in entomology from UF in 2009.
REMINDERS:
Please bring your clean, labeled extra plants for the monthly raffle.
Pots and fertilizer will be available for sale, for very reasonable prices. MICK AND JOHN
TAKE CREDIT CARDS, so payment is easy.
MINUTES, SBS AUGUST MEETING:
These are the minutes of the meeting from the Sarasota bromeliad Society from Monday, August 11,
2014.
Before the meeting a workshop was held by Terrie Bert and her topic was "What's in a name ". The
purpose was to help organize plans for the upcoming show and sale. Terry described how plants are
named for their genus, species, and or, subspecies. Terrie explained the differences between all the
terms and the proper way to note this on plan labels. Also plants can have a formula listed on the
tag of how they were made (hybridized). Also plans can have special designations from Selby
Gardens (SEL) indicating the year the plan was identified and the number of the plant for that year.
Other plants can have an initial at the end indicating who the breeder was.
The meeting was called in order by President Ray Lemieux. Officer reports followed. Sec. David
Denholm read the minutes from the last meeting. They were read and a motion was made to
approve the minutes of the meeting. Then reports were received from committees. Terrie Bert
discussed refreshments and members who brought in did receive a special door prize ticket for a
plant. Then report from Treasurer Susan Stobo indicating that the CD has matured and this has
been put into a credit union savings account. New checks are being printed so people who are due
monies will have them shortly. A report from David Johnston about the Florida Council of Bromeliad
Societies encouraged members to attend the national meeting in Hawaii next month.
Show and sale committee. Terrie Bert went through various committees that will be needed for the
upcoming show and sale. The makeup of his committees was elaborated on in the last news letter.
Photography, publicity, security, and food catering need to be addressed. Terrie will organize the
judges. A co- chair for the event is still needed from our club.
Show and tell followed with Ray Lemieux showing a Hectia Oaxaca Sunset and also a hybrid
Deuterocohnia . Following that, Terrie Bert brought several plants, including an Aechmea and an
Alcantarea.
New members: iWesley Rouge, Martha McKay, and Marian and Mark Kennell. Guests were
Ramona Reiser, Charles Birdsong, and Rich Kosmacki.
The meeting had special speaker--Andy Siekkinen from San Diego, who talked about Hectia. Andy
started with the basic chemistry of the plant and how it has a special metabolic system called
Crassulacean Acid metabolism (CAM). This allows the plant to adapt to stressful ecosystems which
are devoid of water and nutrients such as lava fields, rock outcrops, savannahs and dry forests. He
showed us many species he has seen in his travels across the border into Mexico. Many of the
hectias are dioecious, meaning they have both a male and female version of the plant. It is thought
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that Hectia evolved by splitting off from a primitive ancestor soon after tillandsias did about 13 million
years ago.
Attendance at the meeting was 42.
Respectfully submitted
David Denholm
Fernseea bocainensis, a rare bromeliad from a small, isolated area in southeastern Brazil.
This big, beautiful flower comes from the little, grassy plant below.
Occasionally, the species is for sale in Florida
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