Bromelcairns Bimonthly Newsletter of Cairns Bromeliad SocieInc. 2014 # 6 P.O. Box 28 Cairns Queensland 4870 Ausalia Honorary Life Member - Grace Goode O.A.M. Honorary Life Member - Kay Edington Life Member - Lynn Hudson Life Member - Robert (Bob) Hudson ******************************************************************** Aims of the Society Promote and Develop Interest in Bromeliads through Friendship To Co-operate with similar Clubs throughout the World ******************************************************************** Membership Fee: $15 Single, $25 Family, Country Member $25. $7.50 junior (if not in family membership) Meetings start at 1.pm sharp first Saturday of the month. Please bring a cup and a chair. Library: All books & magazines borrowed are to be returned in good order to the following meeting. If not on wait list, they may be rebooked. Plant Display/Sales: To participate, a member must be financial and circumstances permitting, have attended at least three meetings in the past six months. Where the society is charged a stall fee - 20% of sales are deducted for club funds. No charge venue & meetings - 10% of sales is deducted. All plants to be clean, free of disease, named and price tagged. Show Plants: Must be the property of and in the custody of the entrant for the past three months. For Society Shows the entrant must be financial and have attended at least three meetings during the past six months. Pens, Plant Tags & Pots: available at each meeting. If reprinting article, wholly or in part, please acknowledge Author & Newsletter. Any article &/or Bromelcairns will be Emailed on request to [email protected]or [email protected]President Bob Hudson 0740533913 V-President Brendan Leishman 0740578604 Secretary Dave Weston 0740578604 Treasurer Lesley Hepburn 0488788892 Librarian Steven French 0740322283 Editor Lynn Hudson 0740533913 Editor Assist. Gail Taifalos 0740392787 Member Concierge Nalda Wilson 0740544825 Pop. Vote Steward Lynn Hudson 0740533913
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Bromelcairns Bimonthly Newsletter of Cairns Bromeliad Society Inc. 2014 # 6 P.O. Box 28 Cairns Queensland 4870 Australia !!!!!! Honorary Life Member - Grace Goode O.A.M. Honorary Life Member - Kay Edington Life Member - Lynn Hudson Life Member - Robert (Bob) Hudson
******************************************************************** Aims of the Society
Promote and Develop Interest in Bromeliads through Friendship To Co-operate with similar Clubs throughout the World
******************************************************************** Membership Fee: $15 Single, $25 Family, Country Member $25. $7.50 junior (if not in family membership) Meetings start at 1.pm sharp first Saturday of the month. Please bring a cup and a chair. Library: All books & magazines borrowed are to be returned in good order to the following meeting. If not on wait list, they may be rebooked. Plant Display/Sales: To participate, a member must be financial and circumstances permitting, have attended at least three meetings in the past six months. Where the society is charged a stall fee - 20% of sales are deducted for club funds. No charge venue & meetings - 10% of sales is deducted. All plants to be clean, free of disease, named and price tagged. Show Plants: Must be the property of and in the custody of the entrant for the past three months. For Society Shows the entrant must be financial and have attended at least three meetings during the past six months. Pens, Plant Tags & Pots: available at each meeting. ! If reprinting article, wholly or in part, please acknowledge Author & Newsletter. Any article &/or Bromelcairns will be Emailed on request to [email protected] or [email protected]
! President Bob Hudson 0740533913 V-President Brendan Leishman 0740578604 Secretary Dave Weston 0740578604 Treasurer Lesley Hepburn 0488788892 Librarian Steven French 0740322283 Editor Lynn Hudson 0740533913 Editor Assist. Gail Taifalos 0740392787 Member Concierge Nalda Wilson 0740544825 Pop. Vote Steward Lynn Hudson 0740533913
2 Club Activities & Around the Members NOVEMBER: We were spoiled with a mass of colours, shapes and sizes - the basic attraction of our favourite plants. The mini show of orthophytum and dyckia ensured there were plenty of prickles. Members were fascinated with the shape of Bren’s Dyckia goehringii, the stiff leaves turned under to the stem. Bren said the offsets come on short stolons. Dyckia ‘Arizona’ was perfect a crisp silver blue. Paul entered a double Dyckia leptostachya, both plants in flower. Orthophytum aff. roseum Dyckia ‘Arizona’ Dyckia goehringii
MINI SHOW Orthophytum Dyckia 1st Ortho aff. roseum – Dave Weston 1st Dyckia ‘Arizona’ – Dave Weston 2nd Ortho navioides – Brendan Leishman 2nd Dyckia goehringii – Brendan Leishman 3rd Dyckia leptostachya – Paul Venturi Brendans O. navioides was so red it appeared to be on fire. This plant has been used as a parent in many xNeophytums POPULAR VOTE: NOVICE Dyckia seedling – Janie O’Brien !OPEN - Bromeliad 1st Vriesea flammea – Brendan Leishman 2nd. Neoregelia ‘Mandela’ hybrid – Darryl Lister 3rd. Guzmania ‘Iced Milk’ – Christel Venturi 3rd. Guzmania ‘Gisela’ variegated - Marguerite Sexton !Cryptanthus !1st Cryptanthus ‘Arctic Storm’ – Dave Weston >!2nd. Cryptanthus ‘Black Magic’ – Marguerite Sexton !!Tillandsia 1st Tillandsia xerographica – Marguerite Sexton 2nd Tillandsia andreana – Bob Hudson 3rd. Tillandsia brachycaulos Mex – Paul Venturi 3rd. Tillandsia streptophylla x ‘Trieta’ – Dave Weston
! ! ! ! ! ! ! 3! Vriesea flammea grown by Brendan is huge. We saw it a few years ago at Cairns Show, but this time it was in flower, with over 30 bright spikes bobbing around. It was just beautiful and brought out the “ahhs" from most members. The photo does not show the red spotting on the leaves. Whopped ‘em in the voting, as did ‘Arctic Storm’!
!Darryl showed a seedling of Neoregelia ‘Mandela’ with a deep purple centre, the leaves evenly stacked leaf endings acute, or pinched to a point. Members liked it too. I wish I had a photo of Christel’s Guzmania ‘Iced Milk’, it was perfect and in flower, not a mark on any of the leaves. Well done Christel. ! ! ! !!!!!!!! And there was more - the tillandsias. Marguerite showed a perfect xerographica ball. Bob a flowering andreana with orange flower and leaf tips. Paul’s brachycaulos was flowering, the leaves bright red. Karen Cross showed a well grown streptophylla, just about to flower, the inflorescence rhachis a soft pink. Dave’s streptophylla x ‘Trieta’ !
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2013 POPULAR VOTE, CAIRNS & MINI SHOW RESULTS Popular Vote Novice No Novice trophies awarded as no member had three entries during the year. Bromeliad - Bromeliads & Logs Trophy Cryptanthus - Grace Goode Silver Ingot Trophy Tillandsia - Bromeliads & Logs Trophy Open Bromeliad - 2002 WBC Florida Sundial Trophy - Steven French Cryptanthus - Grace Goode Trophy - Dave Weston Tillandsia - Bob Hudson Trophy - Marguerite Sexton Congratulations to the winners who get to dust a Trophy for a year.! Remember your peers voted you The Best.! Total Points - Society + Cairns Show 2014 Most Points – Dave Weston - Bob Hudson Trophy Dave Weston 51.5+45=96.5, Lynn Hudson 14+65 =79, Steven French 38.5+15 =53.5, Bob Hudson 14+23=37, Marguerite Sexton 30.5, Brendan Leishman 26, Bernice Marks 13+8=21, Darryl Lister 16.5, Lesley Hepburn 0+15, Paul Venturi 8, Karen Stevens 5, Frances Boyd 1+3=4, Sharron Miller 3.5, John Marks 3, Mark Pritchard 3 Gail Taifalos 1, Christel Venturi 0.5, Monica Stapleton 0+4=4. Congratulations to each member who ‘had a go’ & entered plants, ! Each Entrant is a Winner. Well Done each of you. !
! ! ! ! Winners are grinners !Points allotted in Popular Vote, Mini Shows and Cairns Show are 3 points for first, 2 for second and 1 for third = 6 total. Ties are shared as fractions - if three tie for first each gets 2 points = 6 total and no other points allotted. If two tie for first they each get 2.5 points, there is no second place, third gets 1 point.
Bits & Pieces The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% of the world's oxygen supply. The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. ! The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.!! ! Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. 90% of the world's ice covers Antarctica. This ice also represents 70% of all the fresh water in the world. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert; the average yearly total precipitation is about five cm. ! Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, ice.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.!! In the Sahara Desert, in Algeria,there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years. ! Technically though, the driest place on earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island - there has been no rainfall there for two million years. !! Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.!! The water of Angel Falls (the world's highest) in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters). They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls.!*************************************************************************************************************!Mark Twain said!“Everyone complains about the weather but no one does anything about it”!! Australia is in drought, Cairns is currently brown but we are finally getting some short showers. I could not understand why my Alcantarea imperials red were burning. We had a visit from Jane & Stan Walkely and he said ‘You have no humidity’ - never thought of that! Our plants have grown used to it and now react. Bromeliads that have spent all their life in ‘all day sun’ have burned. ! As we move into cyclone season - if we get a blow, pack you bromeliads together, preferably on the ground so they cannot roll when the eye passes and wind comes from the other direction.! When it rains and rains if your plants are potted with good drainage, they should just glow happily. Remember John Catlan’s theory “Remove those offsets, pot them up, as when it is humid and raining, it is good rooting weather.”
! ! ! ! ! ! ! 6!!Your Newsletter Yes, just 8 pages! Computer went haywire, so I purchased a new one - yes it has different settings etc., a bit of a nightmare. There are just 8 pages because I just could not be bothered. Most of you read only the jokes and look at the pictures. If you used your library you would get an idea of the quality of your own newsletter. There are no unsolicited articles, even when I ask for comments, few are received. There are few comments except from overseas! These usually are from the high quality Editors - they know what it takes to put a newsletter together. Here are some of their comments. Herb from his apartment in New York: Wonderful pictures of great collections. I was drooling with jealousy.!Dave from San Diego: Thanks Lynn, loved the garden tours . . .!Rei who send me 2 emails per day: Very nice group of bromeliads, it seems that you all have great weather to grow such nice noes.! Brendan & Bob take photos at meetings, then downsize them and send them to me. I really appreciate their contribution and I know you enjoy the photos of our favourite plants. So instead of jokes, here are some more pics! Lynn.
^ Bob’s treasures on a Red Box stump!< Tillandsia andreanas
11 From Rei Magic Bank Account - Something to think about .. Imagine that you had won the following *PRIZE* in a contest: Each morning your bank would deposit $86,400 in your private account for your use. However, this prize has rules. The rules: 1. Everything that you didn't spend during each day would be taken away from you. 2. You may not simply transfer money into some other account. 3. You may only spend it. 4. Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another $86,400 for that day. 5. The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say, “Game Over!" It can close the account and you will not receive a new one. What would you personally do? You would buy anything and everything you wanted right? Not only for yourself, but for all the people you love and care for. Even for people you don't know, because you couldn't possibly spend it all on yourself, right? You would try to spend every penny, and use it all, because you knew it would be replenished in the morning, right? ACTUALLY, This GAME is REAL ... Are You Shocked??? YES! Each of us is already a winner of this *PRIZE*. We just can't seem to see it. The PRIZE is *TIME* 1. Each morning we awaken to receive 86,400 seconds as a gift of life. 2. And when we go to sleep at night, any remaining time is NOT credited to us. 3. What we haven't used up that day is forever lost. 4. Yesterday is forever gone. 5. Each morning the account is refilled, but the bank can dissolve your account at any time WITHOUT WARNING... ! SO, what will YOU do with your 86,400 seconds? ! Those seconds are worth so much more than the same amount in dollars. Think about it and remember to enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than you think. ! So take care of yourself, be happy, love deeply and enjoy life! Here's wishing you a wonderful and beautiful year. Start spending.
“Bromsmatta” 18th Australian Bromeliad Conference!! Novotel Paramatta, NSW 16-19th April 2015
Interesting Speakers from USA & Australia Learn from the Best * Enjoy Time with Old Friends * Make New Friends Buy amazing Plants. Info www.bromeliad.org.au phone 040820226 Accomodation: www.accorhotels.com.au phone 02963049999! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Bromeliad Cultivation Notes” by Lynn Hudson A little ‘how to’ book. Cultivation made easy. Basics in language anyone can follow.!
John Catlan’s notes - “Bromeliads Under the Mango Tree” Booklet prepared by Lynn Hudson A ‘must have’ book to help you think and grow your bromeliads better. Both available in bulk at reduced price. Contact Lynn on 07 40533913 or [email protected] or
