We started our March meeting by welcoming our guests. We talked about the rock collecting field trip coming up as well as a trip to Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens with Bonnie in May. The Mid-States ‘Stick-Together’ in Oklahoma City was brought up for anyone that might be headed that way this June.

It was mentioned that the Central Coast C&SS has a plant exchange during it’s meetings and it was decided that we might like to try that as well. Bonnie will get it up and running (see page 11).

The slide show “The Hybrid Epiphytic Cacti,” narrated from the script by Maynard, was a marvelous look at all the wonderful flowers that these ‘Orchid’ cacti can produce. There was a bit mentioned in passing about culture and natural history as well.

A short talk about Aloes was given by those who brought in the Plant-of-the-Month.