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BAY AREA CARNIVOROUS PLANT SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
Volume 10, Number 3, Summer 2001
July 18, 2001
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NEXT MEETING
Date: August 4, 2001, Saturday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: Randall Museum, San Francisco
Program: Brooke Taggart (Plant'It Earth): Artificial Lighting for
Indoor Gardens
Are you confused by the bewildering variety of artificial lights
available for growing plants indoors? Have you wondered about the right
intensity and duration? Then come to the next BACPS meeting. Brooke
Taggart from Plant'It Earth, San Francisco's premier indoor gardening
store, will explain various types of lamps, the advantages and
disadvantages of each, and options available for setting up an indoor
light garden. This presentation will be ideal for plant enthusiasts
with less than optimum growing conditions.
The meeting starts at noon with the social, display, and plant sale (10%
of sales and auction go to BACPS). Announcements begin at approximately
1:00 p.m., followed by the program, raffle, auction, and business
meeting. Members are encouraged to bring plants for the display table,
auction, and raffle.
DIRECTIONS TO THE RANDALL MUSEUM: From either the Bay Bridge or the
Peninsula, follow the freeway signs to Mission Street and get off at the
Mission/Duboce exit. Stay on Duboce Avenue, which runs into Market
Street. Make a 45 degree left turn onto Market Street. Immediately
after the Safeway store, make a 45 degree right turn onto 14th Street.
Go up the hill. One block after crossing Castro Street, the main road
curves to the left and becomes Roosevelt Way. Continue 1/4 mile, and
turn left onto Museum Way, just before the main road curves right and
continues up the hill. (If you reach Levant Street, you have gone too
far.) Go to the end of Museum Way and park.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: From Downtown San Francisco on Market Street
take the K, L, or M subway or the F streetcar. Either (1) Get off at the
Castro Street Station (Castro and Market). Walk up Castro to 16th
Street. Walk uphill on 16th one block. Go right on Flint, and take the
footpath up to the museum. Or (2) To avoid walking uphill, get off at
the Church Street Station (Church and Market). Transfer to the 37
Corbett bus. Ask the driver to let you off at the closest bus stop to
the Randall Museum (Roosevelt Way and Museum Way). Walk to the end of
Museum Way.
The Randall Museum is located at 199 Museum Way, telephone (415)554-
9600. There is plenty of free parking.
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Mike Ross
Dear BACPS Members, due to a conflict in schedule, I will be unable to
attend our next meeting, so the "show" will be in the capable hands of
your shared Vice "leaders" Mr. Larry Logoteta and or Mr. Bill Weaver. I
think everyone will enjoy learning about artificial lighting in the
discussion planned for our next meeting.
For our November meeting, please submit your nominations for club
officer positions. We would like to breathe new life into our
leadership positions. Seriously, if you know of a capable member that
is willing to serve in any capacity, notify Geoff Wong of that
member's willingness to run for the position.
Cheers, and have a great meeting. Mike
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MINUTES FROM MEETING ON MAY 26, 2000
Judith Finn
The last meeting at the University of California Botanical Garden saw 45
enthusiastic members in attendance.
For the plant display, Mike Woodring brought in a Venus Fly Trap,
Dionaea 'Sawtooth'. He said his secret to good growth was to feed the
fly trap dry fruit flies. He also brought in a Sarracenia oreophila
hybrid. It was 16 months old. He stratified the seeds for 1 month in
January and then grew it for 4 months inside, using a 14 hour photo
period. He now grows it outside. He then showed a fine plant of
Sarracenia minor x rubra. He fertilized the seedlings by spraying them
with a teaspoon of Miracid followed by water.
Larry Logoteta showed a 3 year old natural hybrid of a Florida
Sarracenia flava x leucophylla 'Cutthroat'.
Mike Ross explained his growing technique for a Sarracenia leucophylla.
He uses builders sand (20 grit white sand). He runs a magnet over the
sand to check for mineral impurities. He said you can also apply
vinegar and check for signs of bubbling. Some suppliers would be Alta
in Oakland and J.S. Dument in S.F. Mike also floods his plants to water
them.
Bill Weaver showed a Sarracenia oreophila 'Sand Mountain', which he
grows in a deep tray. He explained his circulating drip system, an
elaborate self-watering system which saves him water and time. He also
brought a Sarracenia leucophylla x purpurea and a Sarracenia alata x
flava which he grows in a mix of 2 parts peat, fine perlite and 1 part
sand.
Joe Mazrimas impressed us with a rare yellow Sarracenia purpurea var.
burkii f. luteola (or Sarracenia rosea f. luteola, if one accepts the
Sarracenia rosea name as reflecting botanical reality) and a Sarracenia
oreophila.
U.C. Botanical garden displayed several Sarracenia as illustration for
the day's lecture.
Geoff Wong reported on BACPS's successful participation in the Randall
Museum's Bug Day. Cheryl Elwood, Geoff, Mike Ross, Peter D'Amato, David
Gray, and Judith Finn spent an enjoyable day exhibiting and explaining
the magical world of carnivorous plants to hundreds of eager young ears.
The Randall Museum would like us to join them again next year. David
suggested that we could use more large-trapped Venus Fly Traps for
demonstration. The "feeding sessions", occurring every half hour, were
extremely successful but very taxing on our few specimens. Please help
us out by lending us your VFT next year.
David Gray announced that the next International Carnivorous Plant
Society meeting would be held in Tokyo. They will try to arrange
lodging at the University so that the trip will be more affordable.
This will take place in June of 2002. David Gray encouraged everyone to
check the ICPS web site.
Joe Mazrimas still has great CP t-shirts for sale at a bargain $15.
U.C. Davis will be announcing its plant sale. The first patented
Sarracenia is being sold now at local retailers. Sarracenia 'Cobra
Nest' is a hybrid of Sarracenia rubra x purpurea.
James Holt informed us about a website where we could purchase currency
and postage stamps featuring images of carnivorous plants.
http://www.geocities.com/ricell.geo/stamps/index.html
Any articles that members would like to write should be submitted to
Geoff Wong, who edits the Newsletter. He also reminded us that the next
meeting will be at the Randall Museum in S.F. on August 4.
The featured speaker, Barry Meyers-Rice, who works for the Nature
Conservancy, attended the Alabama Natural Heritage Sarracenia oreophila
Meeting. Attendees included people from various chapters of the Nature
Conservancy, Department of Fish and Wildlife, state parks, forestry
departments, and Atlanta Botanical Garden, as well as private land
owners. The results of their meeting and talks are featured in the June
issue of the ICPS Journal.
There are 3 types of sites where S. oreophila grow: (1) pond sites in
flat woods, (2) seepage bogs - also called hanging bogs, and (3)
riparian - along rocky streams. Sarracenia alabamensis grows on the
margins of large clay domes and sometimes in flatwood areas. Sarracenia
jonesii and S. purpurea var. montana grow in mountain bogs. All are
threatened by introduction of nutrients from upstream agricultural
runoff. The bogs become rich in nutrients and other species fill in,
which results in loss of habitat for the CPs. Global warming,
population pressures, habitat destruction (including agricultural
drainage, development, invasive species, biohydrology), pollution, and
poaching also threaten. Legally "endangered" species have to be
protected and maintained. Sarracenia alabamensis, S. oreophila, S.
jonesii are the 3 that are considered "endangered". This has resulted
in the plant sites being monitored with little flags. Barry discussed
the importance of fire in maintaining the ecological balance in the
bogs. Rhizomes may last in the soil for as long as 10 years and can
regenerate after the trees, which invade a site, have been cut. The
most important message that Barry delivered from the conference was the
urgency to preserve the bogs, not only from destructive forces but also
from plant lovers who poach or who try to change bogs by planting them
with species that are not natural to the site.
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TREASURER'S REPORT
Joe Mazrimas
INCOME DEBITS BALANCE
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Dues 25.00
Silent Auction 3.00
Sellers 102.70
Raffle 118.00
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TOTAL INCOME 248.70
Newsletter donated
Postage donated
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TOTAL DEBITS 0.00
Current balance 248.70
Previous balance 2005.61
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BALANCE (5/26/01) $2254.31
U.C. Berkeley Fund (separate) $1427.50
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
This section is available for members to post plant-related
announcements (events, items wanted or available, information wanted or
to share, etc.) Submit announcements to Geoff Wong.
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BACPS CALENDAR
2001
August 4 Summer Meeting, Randall Museum
October 20 Deadline for submissions for next Newsletter
November 17 Fall Meeting, U. C. Botanical Garden (elections)
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BACPS CONTACTS
President Mike Ross
Vice-President (shared) Larry Logoteta
& Bill Weaver
Secretary Judith Finn
Treasurer Joe Mazrimas
Program Coordinator Geoff Wong
Newsletter Editor Geoff Wong
E-mail Distributor Bill Weaver
Snail Mail Distributor Paul Bourbin
Business Manager Larry Logoteta
Auction Manager Glen Rankin
Auctioneer Peter D'Amato
Raffle Manager (temp) Larry Logoteta
Website Manager Albert Huntington
Website: http://www.bacps.org
Mailing address: BACPS, 825 Bennington Street, Manteca, CA 95336
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Please send articles or comments to the editor, Geoff Wong.
If you wish to be added or removed from the distribution list, please
send a message to Bill Weaver.
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