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July Club Webinar ________________ It’s time for the much-anticipated July monthly meeting. This will be our first meeting since March of this year! The program will be held as a Zoom webinar. We will kick off with a short Welcome and a very few announcements. A broadcast of Don Campbell and Sara Hein’s pre- recorded presentation will follow: The Great Convergence: When Chinle Cactophiles and Cacti Gathered in the Desert." After a short break we will resume with a presentation by Loren Benoit: "Experiencing the Electric Desert" from the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. The webinar will be held Thursday July 9th 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Register to attend the meeting here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Lc6sFmZ WR_qvS9spWaOtBg Instructions to Attend a Zoom Webinar This is a two step process. 1) Register in advance for the webinar (hours or days ahead, it doesn’t matter) by clicking the above link. • You will be prompted to enter your name and your email address. When you have done that, click Register. • The system will then send you an email that contains a link to the meeting. It will say “Click Here to Join.” 2) Five to fifteen minutes before the meeting is scheduled to start on Thursday July 9th, click the link in the email that you received that says: “Click Here to Join” • This will bring up a big Zoom window and a smaller window that says Opening Zoom • Select the Save File option in the Opening Zoom window • This downloads the program to your Downloads folder • Locate the program and launch it. • We will start the webinar 15 minutes early (at 6:15) with a Welcome screen displayed and some music so that you can verify your computer’s video and audio. If that has not yet been started yet you will see a “Please wait…” message If you have difficulties connecting on Thursday please call Kate (970) 270-5345, Ken (970) 296-4926 or Loren (970) 314-0176. July 2020 Vol 12 No 3 Newsletter of the Chinle Cactus & Succulent Society July 2020 Page 1 Chinle Cactus & Succulent Society Scenes from “The Great Convergence” The Electric Desert
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July Club Webinar________________
It’s time for the much-anticipated July monthly meeting. This will be our first meeting since March of this year!
The program will be held as a Zoom webinar. We will kick off with a short Welcome and a very few announcements. A broadcast of Don Campbell and Sara Hein’s pre-recorded presentation will follow: The Great Convergence: When Chinle Cactophiles and Cacti Gathered in the Desert." After a short break we will resume with a presentation by Loren Benoit: "Experiencing the Electric Desert" from the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix.
The webinar will be held Thursday July 9th 6:30 – 8:30 pm.
Register to attend the meeting here:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Lc6sFmZWR_qvS9spWaOtBg
Instructions to Attend a Zoom Webinar
This is a two step process.
1) Register in advance for the webinar (hours or days ahead, it doesn’t matter) by clicking the above link.
• You will be prompted to enter your name and your email address. When you have done that, click Register.
• The system will then send you an email that contains a link to the meeting. It will say “Click Here to Join.”
2) Five to fifteen minutes before the meeting is scheduled to start on Thursday July 9th, click the link in the email that you received that says: “Click Here to Join”
• This will bring up a big Zoom window and a smaller window that says Opening Zoom
• Select the Save File option in the Opening Zoom window
• This downloads the program to your Downloads folder
• Locate the program and launch it.• We will start the webinar 15 minutes early (at 6:15)
with a Welcome screen displayed and some music so that you can verify your computer’s video and audio. If that has not yet been started yet you will see a “Please wait…” message
If you have difficulties connecting on Thursday please call Kate (970) 270-5345, Ken (970) 296-4926 or Loren (970) 314-0176.
July 2020 Vol 12 No 3
Newsletter of the
Chinle Cactus & Succulent Society
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Scenes from “The Great Convergence”
The Electric Desert
Club Facebook Page ________________________We put a call out for members to send plant photos to Maryann Benoit, our Facebook editor, and the response has been fantastic. Our page is richly populated with photos (cacti and succulents as well as an interesting collection of oddities) and news of upcoming events of interest. Thank you Maryann and contributors.
To submit photos, links or news items please send them to her at [email protected].
Check out the page here:
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Pest News: Sap Beetles________________________This spring the blooms in your newsletter editor’s cactus garden were decimated by hundreds of thousands of beetles. These guys devoured petals, stamens and pistils. From left to right (below) you can see the beetles on a beautiful pink bloom, a half-eaten yellow flower, and the dried corpses of some consumed flowers. The beetles are about 3 mm long, voracious and are good fliers. They showed up in the garden in the middle of May and stuck around for about a month. They were observed elsewhere (targeting cacti) on the Redlands this spring.
Meredith Shrader, the CSU Area Extension Etymologist, confirmed our suspicion that these little nasties are a type of nitidulid beetle, aka sap beetle. Sadly, control options are limited because of the pollinators that were visiting the flowers. The good news is that soapy water does the trick. Having taken up the challenge, club member Kenton Seth reports:
“I happened to have soapy water in the truck …. and so we tried it on the beetles while at the same time were able to shoo the adorable tiny wasps so they didn’t get doused ….Total success. The ^(*@%s were dead in seconds … and the soap dried quickly, safe for the pollinators to come right back.
About 1 tablespoon of Dr. Bronner’s hippy soap in a quart hand sprayer.”
www.facebook.com/chinlecactusclub
Late Spring Garden Parties________________________After a long hiatus we have been able to get back into both our CSU and the WCBG gardens with appropriate distancing. Thank you May and June gardeners: Lois Davidson, Doris Schlichter, Marj and Larry McKenna, Greg & Lynn Olson, Helen Kempenich, Maryann & Loren Benoit, Sara and Al Hein, John Hall, Kim Krueger, Bambi Harmon and Kate & Ken Weissenburger.
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Spring Garden Parties, cont.________________________
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RULES
• Submit in as many categories as you wish, but no more than one photo per category.
• Photos must have been taken by a member of the Chinle C&SS. • Submit printed photos by Oct. 31, 2020 (Halloween) to Kate
Weissenburger (contact: [email protected] or via our club number (970) 773-7637). Please also provide her with digital versions for our November meeting.
• Photos should be unframed and unmatted with maximum overall dimensions of 5” x 7”.
• Write your name and the photo category on the back of each photo. • Photos may include titles or captions on the face of the photo (this
is encouraged but not required). • At our November meeting we will have all of the photo submissions
on display and judging will be done by club members. • HAVE FUN!
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CATEGORIES
1. A pattern or texture in nature2. Natural scenery/landscape3. Man-made feature (buildings, roads etc.)4. Cactus/succulent plants in a natural habitat5. Plants in a developed setting (indoor/outdoor)6. Animal7. Close-up showing detail8. Whimsical/humor9. Abstract (whatever this means to you)
10. Open (1st place winner in this category receives 10 note cards made from their photo)
2020 Photo Contest Reminder
Photos on this page: selection of submissions from the 2019 contest. Clockwise from top: Janet Hassell, Kate Weissenburger, Helen Kempenich, Marj McKenna, Maryann Benoit & Loren Benoit
2020 Chinle Cactus and Succulent Society Board
President: Bret Seligman Vice President: Doris SchlichterSecretary: Kim Krueger Garden Activities Coordinator: Lois Davidson
Treasurer: Loren Benoit Newsletter Editor: Kate Weissenburger Member at Large: Marj McKenna Program Committee Chair: Helen Kempenich Governance & Public Affairs: Don Campbell
Facebook: Maryann Benoit Web Site: Kate Weissenburger
The Chinle Cactus and Succulent Society usually meets the 2nd Thursday of each month at 6:30 pm. Meetings are held in the Unitarian Universalist Church, 536 Ouray Ave., Grand Junction, CO. Guests are always welcome. For information about upcoming meetings, please check our website.
Mailing Address: Chinle Cactus & Succulent Society, PO Box 233, Grand Junction, CO 81502
Phone: 1(970)773-7637
Website: www.chinlecactusclub.org
Contact Us: [email protected]
Facebook:www.facebook.com/chinlecactusclub
© Chinle Cactus & Succulent Society, 2020
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Calendar of Upcoming Events
July
Monday July 6 6:30 pm Zoom Board Meeting.Wednesday July 8 8:30 am Help Us Move a Few Rocks at the CSU Extension Office garden.Thursday July 9 6:30 pm Regular Club Meeting via Zoom, Don Campbell on "The Great Southern Arizona Convergence of 2020" and Loren Benoit on "Experiencing the Electric Desert."Wednesday July 22 8:00 - 10:00 am Garden Party at the CSU Extension Office garden.
August
Monday August 3 6:30 pm Zoom Board Meeting.Wednesday August 5 8:00 - 10:00 am Garden Party at the Western Colorado Botanical Garden.[No Regular Club Meeting this month]Saturday August 22 8:00 - 10:00 am Garden Party at the CSU Extension Office.
Photo by Don C
ampbell
