{"id":42864,"date":"2013-06-13T13:55:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T17:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=42864"},"modified":"2013-06-13T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T17:55:44","slug":"upcoming-cssa-show-at-the-huntington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=42864","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming CSSA show at the Huntington"},"content":{"rendered":"

I won’t be able to attend the Cactus and Succulent Society of America show<\/a> to be held at the Huntington Botanical Gardens June 28-30, 2013. But you should definitely go, for reasons photographed below. You will very likely find many of the same vendors I pestered with questions and be able to ogle the same plants I did last weekend at the Los Angeles Cactus and Succulent Society’s Drought Tolerant Plant Festival<\/a> in Encino. If you can’t make it to the Huntington in June, don’t despair. There’s still the InterCity show<\/a> and sale held at the Los Angeles Arboretum August 17th and 18th.<\/p>\n

Reasons to attend:<\/p>\n

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The scrolled leaves on this bromeliad drew lots of attention.<\/p>\n

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But attention swiftly gets snagged on something else, such as the jagged leaves of a deep burgundy dyckia. And so it goes at a plant show.
\nAttention ricochets around the show room like protons in a Hadron collider. <\/p>\n

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Chartreuse leaves, burgundy thorns = love<\/p>\n

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From the bromeliad table<\/p>\n

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The aloe tables<\/p>\n

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A Stonehenge of lithops<\/p>\n

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Yes, even in the plant world there are winners and losers. Well, actually, the caretakers of the plants are the winners\/losers.
\nPlants don’t care much about contests (except in the big, Darwinian sense).<\/p>\n

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The signage and information at this show was incredible.<\/p>\n

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A section of the show was devoted to engaging kids, and it was beautifully done<\/p>\n

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Kelly Griffin’s Agave ‘Snow Glow’<\/p>\n

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I should know this agave…(fingers drumming desk). Is it a cross of ferdinand-regis with scabra like ‘Sharkskin’?<\/p>\n

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Cactus and succulent shows have a unique pottery vernacular<\/p>\n

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There were a couple of these agaves for sale. ‘Blue Flame’ is one of my favorite agaves, so I lingered over this one.
\nIt is beautiful, but I think I prefer a cleaner variegation. So nice to occasionally walk away from temptation.<\/p>\n

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A show with succulents and pelargoniums — what’s not to love?<\/p>\n

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Here is where I got into trouble, a display in the plant sales area of dyckias and hechtias<\/p>\n

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First off, I always mispronounce dyckia, like “dike” when it should be “dick.” You can probably imagine an easy mnemonic device for that one.<\/p>\n

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Second, I seriously coveted a plant that was off limits, display purposes only. <\/p>\n

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Hechtias, Mexican terrestrial bromeliads, are new to me, foreign and intriguing.<\/p>\n

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Bromeliad of desire, Hechtia glomerata. <\/p>\n

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Plant people understand such infatuation all too well and are more than willing to work something out.
\nA pup of the display-only Hechtia glomerata was removed, tagged, and bagged for a very reasonable price.<\/p>\n

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Last look at the one that got away, Agave ‘Streaker.’ I don’t think I’d have the strength to pass this one up again.<\/p>\n

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