April Meeting Minutes

The April meeting had many wonderful slides of Sinningia. Some of the various Sinningia named were discussed and their differing horticultural needs pointed out.

Examples of the Sinningia we saw were, S. leopolidd, S.canescens, S. leutoricha, S. iarae, S. polyantha - (which humming birds like), S.calcaria, S. magnifica - (which looks like a cardinalis but is bigger), S. glazioviana - (which Clay uses in some crosses), S. hatschbachii, S. reitzii - (which used to be called Rechsteinaria), S. 
douglasii, S. insularis, S. rupicola, S. macropoda and S. laterita. Other crosses were discussed like S. "Bewitched" x S. calcaria which Mike brought to display.













The next photo is of S. iarae x a peloric red Sinningia. The crossis on the right side.

















The show and tell portion of the meeting had lots of wonderful Kohleria that were in bloom. A particularly large blooming variety is "Red Rider" that has very large blooms.

Here are two other photos.....

The business meeting started at 8:13 pm. There was no treasury report. Discussion about the fact that there were too many people still able to sign the checkbook would be looked into. There was discussion about the nomination of officers and who would be willing to fill various positions. The president can only serve one repeat term and we'll discuss this more at the May meeting. The secretary stays the same and so does treasurer for the coming year.

We made a motion to send $60.00 to Mauro and it was passed. We looked at the thank you notes from the show. The club events, such as the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden trip and Art in Bloom, times and locations were given.

No old business was brought up. We talked about the Friends sale at the State Fair grounds and noted times and dates of the sale. Clay would be working in the rare plant section on Friday. Sue was going to bring treats for the May meeting.

While we had the great pleasure of welcoming a new member, Dennis, from "down south" we also were very sad to hear that long time member Janet would no longer be coming regularly to meetings. She will have to come visit though!

The meeting was done at 8:35 pm.