We love cacti and succulents. If you do too, you will fit right in!

• Learn about the plants you already have. Do your cacti grow bigger and flower every year? They should! Tired of replacing your succulents? Come learn what's going wrong!
• Learn about new and different plants.
• Monthly Q&A sessions during meetings.
• Lectures about faraway places and exotic species.
• How-to demonstrations.
• Want cacti and succulents that are not sold at the big box stores? We know where to find them!

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Our speakers for January through March are now available on the Calendar page.

Annual Show and Sale 2010 Dates:
Set up - April 14  -  bringing in plants
Show Judging - April 15  -  plants judged, vendors setting up
Show and Sale - April 16 - 18 open to the public  --  need lots of volunteer help!

Check out our Plant Information page which was recently updated with a whole library of articles about growing cacti and succulents!

We now have a search feature on our site. Looking for information on the care of a specific plant? Try searching our site for any relevant pages!

The latest edition of The Central Spine is now available for download on our newsletters page.

Sunday, January 31, 2:00 p.m.
Dorrance Hall, Desert Botanical Gardens

"Oh, Oaxaca" is the title of the program for our January meeting.   Our speaker is John Trager, Curator of the Desert Collections at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California where he has worked since 1983.  Prior to that he had the privilege of working with master propagator Frank Horwood at Abbey Garden Nursery when it was located in Carpinteria.  Trager’s horticultural writings have appeared in the Cactus and Succulent Journal, the Euphorbia Journal, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Garden Record, Garden (the journal of the Royal Horticultural Society) and the Rock Garden Quarterly and Flora, the two-volume encyclopedia published in 2003.