Petal Tones, the Newsletter of the National Capital Area Chapter
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| July/August 2010 | Annoucements: September meeting; Desperately Seeking; Jim Steuerlein Sinningia Giveaway (Jim Roberts); Pepper's Greenhouses (Donna Beverin); Ornate Columneas (Lee Linnet); Local Display Greenhouse Needs our Help! (Jim Roberts) |
| May/June 2010 | Announcements; Brazil Club; Desperately Seeking |
| April 2010 | Show Report (Brian Connor); Announcements; Desperately Seeking; How I Grew My Show-Winning Petrocosmeas (Andrew Norris); Awards Report (Jim Roberts); April Meeting; Announcement: Baltimore African Violet Club Annual Show and Sale |
| March 2010 | Announcements; What Is a Gesneriad and How Are They Judged?; April Meeting - Alpine Gesneriads and Rhizome Exchange |
| February 2010 | Planting and Growing a Terrarium with Gesneriads by Neale Stuart-Merriman (Jim Roberts); Gasteranthus - A Special Gift at the Raffle (Jim Roberts); Gasteranthus atratus (Anonymous); Desperately Seeking; Bananas, Crocs and Gesneriads (Kyoko Imai) |
| January 2010 | Terrarium Containers and Where to Find Them (Johanna Zinn); Announcements; What is a Terrarium? (Lee Linett); Tips for Under Water Design (Carol Hamelink, reprint from February 2007); Stress for Success? (Lee Linett); Recycle This (Lee Linett) |
| Announcements; Holiday Party details; Condensed Chiritas (Lee Linett); Companiable Plants (Lee Linett); MAAVS 2009 (Brian Connor); Membership Dues reminder | |
| October 2009 | Announcements; Places I've Been - Johnson's Garden Center (Lee Linett) and Brookside Gardens (Donna Beverin); September Meeting Review (Karin Fontneau); slides from Ken Meier's presentation; Strange and Dangerous, Thrips Carry Plant Viruses (Brian Connor); photos from the Frelinghuysen Chapter's show. |
| September 2009 | Greetings and announcements - meeting, Brazil seed fund, upcoming visit to Frelinghuysen Chapter (Jim Roberts); Visiting Harry Witmore (Jim Roberts) |
| July/August 2009 | What is a Convention? (Jim Roberts); What to do with New Plants (Kyoko Imai) |
| June 2009 | The Hyogo Prefectural Flower Center (Kenji Hirose); LECA Update. . . (Kyoko Imai); Pictures from the Baltimore African Violet Society Show (Brian Connor); A Visit to Al's Orchid Greenhouse (Kyoko Imai) |
| May 2009 | May Program: Propagation Workshop (Jim Roberts); Addicted to Gesneriads! (Brian Connor); announcements; Tips on Propagating Gesneriads (Brian Connor); Potting Mixes; Growing Media Ingredients (Kyoko Imai); Trip to Ecuador (Ken Meier) |
| April 2009 | April Program announcement: Growing in Leca Stones (rescheduled from January); I Realize I'm Hooked Because . . . (Monte Walter); announcements; My Trip to Brazil (Part II) - Mauro's Place (Jim Roberts) |
| March 2009 | New Aeschynanthus Species (Aarti Shah); announcements; Growing Gesneriads for Show (Carol Hamelink); Brazil Plants – A Visit with Mauro (Jim Roberts) |
| February 2009 | Program Announcement - Jim's Trip to Brazil; Tsukuba Botanical Garden (Kyoko Imai); Closeups - Petrocosmea (Kyoko Imai) |
| January 2009 | January Program Announcement - Growing in Leca; Some Important Notes; Our Meeting Place Is Safe - For Now (Aarti Shah); Bev's Gesneriad History - A Beginner's Story (Beverly Nissenbaum); Closeup: Episcia Leaves (Kyoko Imai) |
| December 2008 | Thieving Gesneriphiles Brown Bag Rules; Violets Along the Shenandoah - Mid-Atlantic African Violet Society 2008 Convention (Brian Connor and Kyoko Imai); Fun with Hybridization - Aeschynanthus (Brian Connor) |
| November 2008 | Local Interest: National Bonsai and Penjing Museum (Kyoko Imai); Report from the October Meeting - Dog Show (Kyoko Imai); Sinningia bulbosa: Just How Important is Good Culture? (Kyoko Imai); Aeschynanthus longicaulis - Looking Closely (Kyoko Imai) |
| October 2008 | Dog Show Schedule; History and Culture of Streptocarpus Part II (Brian Connor); A Visit to Brennan's Orchids (Kyoko Imai); Thank you note from Dale Martens |
| September 2008 | History and Culture of Streptocarpus Part I (Brian Connor); Local Interest: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens (Kyoko Imai); A (Spur of the Moment) Buying Spree at Lyndon Lyon (Brian Connor); Close-Up of Two Sinningia Seeds |
| August 2008 | Message from the Convention Co-Chair (Nell Hennessy); Gesneriads at the U.S. Botanic Garden (Kyoko Imai); Growing in Leca (Jim Roberts) |
| June/July 2008 | Picnic Details; How to Grow Achimenes (Serge Saliba); Hardy Gesneriads (Jim Roberts); So You Crossed It! (Kyoko Imai); Highlights from May Meeting on Hybridizing (Kyoko Imai); What's Growing |
| May 2008 | Go for Green! (Dale Martens); Storing and Sending Pollen (Dale Martens, reprinted from Gesneriphiles); "Plant" of the Month for June - Cold Hardy Gesneriads (Kyoko Imai); Growing Chiritas (Carol Hamelink); Hybridizing - the Bare Basics (Kyoko Imai) |
| April 2008 | Show Results; Next Meeting - Hybridizing; Garden Visit - Gesneriads at the New York Botanical Garden (Kyoko Imai); Micro Mini Sinningias - in long fibre sphagnum (Kyoko Imai) |
| March 2008 | Show Update (Jim Roberts); Notes from the February Meeting; Pre-Show notes; Two New Petrocosmea hybrids (Jim Roberts) What to Do with New Plants (Kyoko Imai); Notes from the February Meeting (Kyoko Imai) |
| February 2008 | The Gesneriad Society; Awards for March Show; Things to Do for the March Show (Carol Hamelink); announcements; February's Plant of the Month - Columnea; Arrangements - the Artistic Part of Our Show (Jim Roberts); 2009 Convention Update |
| January 2008 | February Little Show - summary of points, learning how to show plants (Jim Roberts); Things to do for the March show; announcements; February Plant of the Month - Columnea |
| December 2007 | Little Show results; highlights from November presentation - Dennis Miller on Hybridizing Streptocarpus (Mark Zukaitis); March Show - The Time to Prepare Is Now (Carol Hamelink); Showing Single Genera Collections (Carol Hamelink) |
| November 2007 | November Speaker announcement: Dennis Miller - Streptocarpus Hybridizer; Editor's Message; Brazil Seed Club |
| October 2007 | Little Show Results; Highlights from September presentation by Karen Cichocki (Carol Hamelink); Neil's Hybrids - By a Hobbyist Hybridizer (Dennis Miller, reprinted from Crosswords); announcements |
| September 2007 | Upcoming Meetings; Little Show information; Why I Love Terrariums (Mark Zukaitis); Roots - Karyn Cichocki's Story; Let There Be Light - fluorescent lighting (Carol Hamelink); future program topics |
| July/August 2007 | Little Show results; Shopping for Gesneriads at Home Depot (Jim Roberts); September meeting agenda; future program topics; Roots - My Beginnings with Gesneriads (Jim Roberts) |
| May/June 2007 | Summer picnic; What we Grow; Little Show results; The Plant Raffle; I Gave at the Office (Mark Zukaitis); highlights fromBob and Dee Stewart's April Talk - Soil and Water; Brazil Seed Club Membership Protocol |
| April 2007 | Next meeting - Water and Soil Basics; Brazil seed club; What We Grow - Carol Hamelink; Rhizomatous Plant Multiplication (Jim Roberts); website announcement; 2007 Convention Announcement; Greetings from the Editor |
| March 2007 | Little Show results; Gloxinia 'Dragonsong' (Jim Roberts); new humidity box (Carol Hamelink);Kohleria 'Green Goblin' soil mix (Carol Hamelink); Greetings from the Editor |
| February 2007 | Future Program Notes; Sinningia piresiana; Episcia culture (Lee Linnet); What's in Bloom; Tips for Under Water Design; What We Grow (Mike Salapka, Shirley Huffman); Brazil Seed Club membership protocol |
| January 2007 | New meeting format; What's in Bloom; December Meeting highlights; Achimenes mexicana; Brazil Plants Support Club; Greetings from the Editor; next meeting: Episcia |