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Brighton & Hove Branch BCSS
I have cancelled all our scheduled branch meetings for the remainder of the year.    Meanwhile our financial year has ended and Dawn has prepared a set of accounts.  Naturally both our income and expenditure are down due to meeting cancellations but the net result is that we have come out substantially ahead and remain in a very sound financial position.  View accounts here.
Special invitation to Sussex BCSS members:

Joint MSG-NW Mesemb Show International Zoom Conference
Saturday 3rd October 2020


The 2020 MSG Event and the 2020 NW Mesemb Show have both been cancelled due to the Coronavirus.  We are replacing these two events with a virtual international conference.  We are very grateful to Jon Schwark, whose San Francisco CSS have a Zoom license to allow 500 participants, for hosting this meeting for us.   Here is the link to logon to the conference:

Topic: MSG-NWMesemb Joint Conference
Time: Oct 3, 2020 02:00 PM London

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88604887467?pwd=SFhxZWRkVTNCRkc1cldYMnNHMndXUT09

Meeting ID: 886 0488 7467
Passcode: iceplant

A reminder of the programme (all times GMT):

2.00-2.05 Chairman's Introduction from Terry Smale (UK)

2.05-2.50 Matthew Opel (USA), 'Winter Mesembs: cultivation and taxonomy of selected genera'

2.50-3.00 Questions

3.00-3.10 Break

3.10-4.00 5 x 10 minute greenhouse presentations by Brian McDonough (UK), Ian Robinson (UK), Terry Smale (UK), Alice Vanden Bon (UK) and Catherine Arthur (ES)

4.00-4.10 Break

4.10-4.55 Robyn Powell (UK, Kew) 'Adaptations of Aizoaceae to arid stress in Namaqualand

4,55 Questions

5.00 Closing comments from Peter Bint (UK)
Developments at Brenfield

In my last newsletter I mentioned we were expanding our propagation of cacti and succulents. Below is a picture of our new indoor seed germination facility.  The biggest problem is getting hold of reliable seed in quantity.
Two Wests tiered Bench
We have also added two more outdoor benches for plants.  Above shows Suzanne's latest craze for Mangaves and mine for palms.   Below is s mixed array of plants include some Sarcostemmas which came from Chris Eyers, they have responded very well to a period outside but will soon have to be brought in.






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