Sunshine Coast Bromeliad Society Inc.
Newsletter
No. 6/16 November-December-2016
Correspondence/Enquiries to:
The Secretary,
Sunshine Coast Bromeliad Society Inc.
54 Elkhorn Street,
Kuluin, 4558.
Www.scbs.org.au
The Sunshine Coast Bromeliad Society Inc.
Founded 1999
Affiliated with Bromeliad Society International
Office Bearers 2016
President Nigel Thomson 5485 3515 [email protected]
Vice President: Cheryl Basic 54728827 [email protected]
Secretary: Carol Stewart 5445 3488 [email protected] Treasurer: Ralf Schenk 0403193068 [email protected]
Membership Secretary: Ralf Schenk 0403193068 [email protected]
Committee: Len Waite
Ron Murray
Steve Flood
Life Members: Grace Goode OAM
Paulsen (decd)
Librarians: Kendall Ross
Col Wildermuth
Popular Choice: Nigel Thomson, Steve Flood Uldis Miezis
Plant Sales: Ralf Schenk, Carol Stewart Bruce Parker
Catering: Rostered Raffle's: Gaye Cook Kendall Ross,
Safety Officer: Ron Murray
Newsletter Editor: Ralf Schenk
Club Website: scbs.org.au
Conference Website: sunnybroms.com
Web Master: Peter Cook
Monthly meetings are held at the Millwell Road Commu-
nity Centre, 11 Millwell Road (East) Maroochydore.
(Behind the Plaza Shopping Centre.
Meeting preparation starts prior to 1.30pm with proceed-
ings beginning at 1.40pm .
Afternoon tea is available and members should
bring their own cup. Raffle tickets can be purchased for
$1.00 each; proceeds from the raffle help offset
the clubs meeting expenses.
Contents:
1 Office Bearers
2 Meeting Programme
3 Presidents Report-Sunny Broms
4. Popular Choice September
5. Popular Choice Sreptember
6 Popular Choice October
7. Popular Choice October
8. Popular Choice October
9. Bunnings Sausage Sizzle 12th November
10. Coming Events, Time for Humour
Front Cover: Till. streptophylla Back Cover: October General Meeting
Message from the editor Newsletter: Ralf Schenk
Articles appearing in this Newsletter are for information only and are not necessarily endorsed by the committee or the
Sunshine Coast Bromeliad Society Inc.
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Meeting Programme 2016
Format for the General Meeting is:
1. Set up Popular Choice
2. Opening and intro by President
3. Bromeliads in general
4. Tea Break and Plant sales
5. Popular Choice Results
6. Speakers Presentation
7. Raffle and Conclusion
Date Topic Presenter
November 19th Christmas Break Up -Millwell Rd Hall
Sausage Sizzle, Monster Raffle Committee
December Christmas vacation
January 21st General Meeting-Millwell Rd Hall
Guzmania's Nigel Thomson
Sausage Sizzle
February 18th General Meeting-Millwell Rd Hall
Neoregelias Committee
March 18th Hall Unavailable
Garden Meeting at Cheryl Basic’s
1560 Yandina Coolum Rd, Yandina
Sausage Sizzle Members
April 15th Easter—Meeting Cancelled
May 20th General Meeting -Millwell Rd
Cryptanthus & Prickly Plants Committee
June 17th Garden Meeting
John Byth John Byth
July 15th General Meeting—Millwell Rd
Tillandsias (Mounting) Gary May
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President’s Report
Another month has past us bye or should I say year as our up coming meeting will be
our Christmas breakup.
Since our last Newsletter publication we had Becky Trevor as a guest speaker in September.
Giving us an insight on her introduction to Bromeliads to her
current role as Manager of the “Olive Branch”.
A photo presentation of the Nursery highlighting the
expanse of assorted and special Bromeliads.
As the “Olive Branch” will be one of many selling at the Sunny
Broms conference with what our members have seen a number will be eager to attend the conference to be amongst the first to
purchase some of the new releases that will be available.
Many thanks to Becky for a very informative and delightful
presentation.
Olive Trevor who we haven’t seen for some time was kind
enough to talk us through some of the Bromeliads on the dis-
play table.
Keep an eye out on upcoming events , you will notice that the in March the Hall is unavailable and former president Cheryl Basic has offered to have a garden meeting at her place.
A special thank you to the BBQ team for a very successful fund raiser, regretfully I was unable
to attend and help out. We have been allocated another sausage sizzle on Friday 16th Decem-
ber. Some extra help will be required so if you are up to it please contact Carol.
As always looking forward to our meeting this month.
On behalf of President Nigel
SUNNY BROMS
Have you had a chance lately to get onto
the conference web site sunnybroms.com
Keep informed of up to date information re-garding registrations, bus trips, special guest speakers, accommodation, plant sales and more.
Haven’t registered yet? Then talk to Peter
Cook at our meeting on Saturday.
Meeting Attendance
Sep Oct
Members 46 42 Visitors 1 1 Apologies 5 11
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Popular Choice September 2016
NEOREGELIA
Inferno (10 Votes)
Sue Murray
First
Voodoo x Barbarian No30 (6 Votes)
Greg Jones
Third
Bushfire (9 Votes)
Sue Murray
Second
OTHER GENERA
First
Till. streptophylla (13 Votes)
Sue Murray
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Popular Choice September 2016
OTHER GENERA
Bill. Cloud Nine (7 Votes)
Cheryl Basic
Second
Third
Acanthostachy strobilacea (3 Votes)
Sue Murray
Sue Murray
Smug Grub (12 Votes)
First (12 Votes)
PATTERN LEAF VRIESA
Sue Murray
Alan Phythian Hybrid
Second (7 Votes)
Hieroglyphica x Red Chestnut F1
Third (5 Votes)
Greg Jones
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Popular Choice October 2016
OTHER GENERA
Tectorum ( 12 Votes)
Stan Walkley
Second & First
Aech. ornata (3 Votes)
Stuart Cheyne
Third
Vr. simplex (12 Votes)
Hermann Vandermeer
First
Guz. Firedragon (9 Votes)
Michael Richards
Second
FLOWERING GUZMANIA & VRIESA
Vrieslandia Marichelle (4 Votes )
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Popular Choice October 2016
PATTERN LEAF VRIESEA
Vr. Hieroglyphica x Red Chestnut F1
Greg Jones
First (15 Votes)
Top Left
Vr. Gultz Hybrid
Sue Murray
Second (4 Votes)
Top Right
Vr. Tasman Hybrid
Sue Murray
Third (3 Votes)
Left
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Popular Choice October 2016
NEOREGELIA
Neo. Little Rositta
Betty Jorgensen
First (11 Votes)
Top Left
Neo. Bobby Dazzler
Fay Paku
Second (6 Votes)
Top Right
Neo. Morado
Stuart Cheyne
Third (5 Votes)
Left
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Bunnings Maroochydore Sausage Sizzle
Peter and Gaye setting up on a Saturday morn-
ing, head down bums up sorting out the order
of drinks for sale, whilst Cheryl (hidden) laying
out the table for the slice of bread and serviettes
On which the sausages are placed. Ralf in the meantime is well underway with the
first packet of sausages on the BBQ plate as
well as the first lot of pre cooked onions being
heated up. Carol is kept busy unloaded her car
with all the necessary goodies for the days ac-
tivity.
Based on about 4 trays of sausages
per hour we were lagging behind our
previous best.
Little did we realise that once the
tempo heated up it was full on for the rest of the day. Closer to the end of
the day it was realised we were going
the run out of both sausages and
bread on not just one occasion but
two. Yes a total of 61 trays of sau-
sages were all sold, as were all the
drinks. With record sales it was down
to counting the days takings and some
well earned refreshments.
Saturday 12th November 2016
More boxes then you can
poke a stick at but all have
their place.
After our last very suc-
cessful event Carol as-sured us she had pur-
chased an equivalent of
supplies in order would
not run out. Let the sales
being. After a surprising
ly slow start we were
sceptical about the out
come for the day.
Coming Events
SCBS - Christmas Breakup Millwell Road Community Centre
Sat. 19th November
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The Bromeliad Society of Qld. Sat 26th Nov. 8am-4pm
Sun. 27th Nov. 9am-3pm
Table Tennis Centre
86 Green Tce. Windsor
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SCBS-General Meeting
Millwell Road Community Centre
Sat 21st January
Happy New Year - Sausage Sizzle
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SCBS-General Meeting
Millwell Road Community Centre
Sat. 18th February
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SCBS-General Meeting
Hall Unavailable Sat. 18th March
Garden Meeting-Cheryl Basic’s
1560 Yandina Coolum Road
Yandina
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SCBS-General Meeting
Sat 15th April
Meeting Cancelled-Easter Saturday
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SCBS-General Meeting
Millwell Road Community Centre
Sat. 20th May ***********
SCBS-General Meeting
Hall Unavailable
Garden Meeting –John Byth
Woodford
Sat. June 17th
***********
SCBS-General Meeting
Millwell Road Community Centre
Sat. July 15th
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Time for some Humour
A father passing by his son's bedroom was as-
tonished to see the bed was nicely made and
everything was picked up. Then, he saw an en-
velope, propped up prominently on the pillow. It
was addressed, 'Dad'. With the worst premoni-tion, he opened the envelope and read the letter
with trembling hands:
"Dear Dad,
It is with great regret and sorrow that I'm writing
you. I had to elope with my new girlfriend, be-
cause I wanted to avoid a scene with you and
mom.
I've found real passion with Stacy. She is so
nice, but I knew you would not approve of her
because of all her piercings, tattoos, her tight
motorcycle clothes, and because she is so much older than I am.
But it's not only the passion, Dad. She's preg-
nant. Stacy said that we will be very happy. She
owns a trailer in the woods, and has a stack of
firewood for the whole winter. We share a
dream of having many more children.
Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that mari-
juana doesn't really hurt anyone. We'll be grow-
ing it for ourselves and trading it with the other
people in the commune for all the cocaine and ecstasy we want.
In the meantime, we'll pray that science will find
a cure for AIDS so that Stacy can get better. She
sure deserves it!
Don't worry Dad, I'm 15 and I know how to take
care of myself. Someday, I'm sure we'll be back
to visit so you can get to know your many
grandchildren.
With love, your son,
Joshua.
P.S. Dad, none of the above is true. I'm over
at Jason's house. I just wanted to remind you
that there are worse things in life than the
school report that's on the kitchen table. Call
when it is safe for me to come home!"
October General Meeting 15-10-2016
Lou Randall
Anil Ghodke in action
Another Good Plant selection for the Raffle
A very decisive description of
Racinaea multiflora var.
Tomensis (from Ecuador)
A very informative presentation by
Anil Ghodke on tissue culture kept
the audience silent as he explained
in detail the procedure and the ster-
ilization process by way of a power point display.