LACPS meet!

[thez_yo]

I love going up to the LACPS meets cuz I get to go up and meet up with Not a Number, so I headed up today to go say hi! Usually I bring some stuff up, but I had to go empty-handed today because nothing I've got in propagation right now has the proper amount of roots. The meet was at UC Fullerton, at Ed's Greenhouse, which is always a delight. Lots of people brought lots of stuff for show, trade and sale. Here's my pics:

You can tell it's gonna be good when you see the bananas on the approach to the greenhouse.

pineapple!

A lovely cephy growing contraption:

Everyone loves a nice flava

I think these are all pups/heads on one nice red brom

Ed's purple passionfruit gave me the inspiration to try to grow one on my balcony too. If it does ok in LA, it'll probably do ok for me, right? Mine came back this year too

Papayas

Fiery peppers

Poor ugly little regular houseplants

When I grow up, I hope my 'behind the shed random weed plants' look this good! (and nice wheelbarrow too!)

Cinnamon and Cardamom in the back there.

The back Nepenthes house:

a closeup of that nice bloom

Couple of tall Amorphophallus

 

[thez_yo]

Raffles!!

Peperomia from Columbia I think

Oops.

I wonder why I feel so hot?

Back in the main greenhouses again--

There's all sorts of cute things hiding out, like a little ginkgo here or there

This flower:

...is on that stalk that looks like a tree, but is actually an orchid, in the walkway:

Propagation corner!

A collection simply is incomplete without U.bisquamata

And also incomplete without roundandstickya

and scorpioides

and an infestation of capensis

Why can't my VFTs look good too :'(

A tray of capensis

..had to circle back on those nice flavas. I'm sure they'll get darker as the summer progresses, but they look amazing freshly sprouted too.

Brave little fly

Just look at those ruby lips

Somebody brought in a Cobra to show off:

...I'm totally not jealous. Nope, not me.

People brought all sorts of cool stuff

Ping flower pics!

 

[thez_yo]

B.reducta

Leaning tower of scorpy (they make aerial roots)

Nice red filiformis

"members plant area" for show/trade/sale

Off to the Orchid house!

I wish I still had cacao trees

Miracle fruit (that one that turns sour -> sweet)

Yup, I def. do miss my cacao

Vanilla

Between the sets of greenhouses

Those purple shamrock flowers:

Back to the main greenhouse for the end of the meeting--

Tilly flowers

And someone brought Emu eggs to sell! I thought I was successfully going to leave a plant meeting without having had purchased anything, unfortunately..

YAY!

They've got mosquito-fish in the pond in the main greenhouse, of course.

One last walk through of members' displays:

So satisfying

On the way out, you pass a good pile of cacti

and those bananas

It was a good meet. I hope I can make it to the Huntington meet in June

 

[Tanukimo]

Nice! Wish I could have went. I like the Sarracenia minor, and those scorpioides look crazy!

 

[curtisconners]

No cp collection nor cp heavy show is complete without an infestation of d. Capensis.

 

[hcarlton]

So many photos to sift through....and that is one HUGE Amorphophallus! Gee, my konjacs and dunnii pale in comparison.....
Out of curiosity, it's not a fertile emu egg is it? That is one funky color.

 

[BigBella]

Once again, Zuzana, why the paltry numbers of photos?

 

[bluemax]

Quite the odyssey! Certainly makes me wish I had been there to see it all.

 

[DonH]

Thanks for sharing pics. I was there also and saw the greenhouse where they keep their Amorphophallus titanums. Two of them were going to bloom and they had an another 20-30 plants about 8 feet tall! They were selling small 12" titanums for $15.

Ed Read, the host and greenhouse manager, has done an incredible job maintaining the place. I went to the meeting for CPs and ended up looking at all the other plants and came home with a titanum.

 

[Flip_Side_the_Pint]

Very cool! I wish I could have gone, would have been a long drive though.

Did someone place half of a pistachio shell on that pink bromeliad looking plant?

 

[DJ57]

Thank you for posting the pics, I had such a good time when I attended a couple years ago. I am planning to be down that way again this summer and hope to time it so I can attend another.

 

[thez_yo]

Thanks guys

The red brom: no idea. I just liked its colour and didn't notice anything else, but that looks more like a flower petal to me.

David: I know, I continue to disappoint :-(

Ed does a spectacular job with the plants, and his Ping & random cool animal things (did y'alls notice the snake skin?) corner is awesome.

The emu eggs: not sure, but it's currently sitting in my fridgy so it's def. no gonna be turning into a scary dino-bird. I didn't know a bird's egg could be such a wonderful colour until I showed up at this meet.

 

[Not a Number]

The emu eggs are not fertilized. Nathan said the boy and girl emus don't get along

Some pictures, mostly Sarracenia flava, one of S. 'Judith Hindle', one S. 'Tarnok' flower