The Conrad-Sunrise Chapter

of the

American Hibiscus Society

 

Our Chapter meets the 3rd Wednesday of the Month

At

The Mounts Botanical Gardens

531 N. Military Trail

West Palm Beach, Fl

Located midway between Belevedere Rd and Southern Blvd

The meeting is at the Mounts Auditorium right off the trail

Meetings start at 7:30 PM

Each meeting has a door prize, plant raffle, mini-show, guest speaker or demonstration and refreshments. If you need more information call John Webster 561-622-8681 or email at farmerbrown@farmerbrown.org

If you do email put HIBISCUS in the subject, if you do not get a reply within a few days please try again in case I missed your first try.

Next Meeting:

How to Judge a Hibiscus Bloom,   How do the judges do it?

Find out at this meeting, practice on our Mini Show Blooms.

 

May Meeting is Grafting Hybrid Hibiscus, Bring your rootstock and practice to produce some new plants for your garden.

Scion wood of members plants will be provided, bring some wood of your varities to share

Read the news letter below for more information .

 

Hibiscus Meeting Topics for 2013
January - Hybridization of Hibiscus

February - Starting Root Stock for grafting and common garden varieties

March - Spring Auction

April- Judging and Bloom Prep 

May - Grafting hybrid hibiscus plants

June - No Meeting - Enjoy your summer

Attend the annual Hibiscus Convention in Boca Raton in June, more info to come

July - Guest Speaker

August - Seed prep and planting Hibiscus Seeds and Hibiscus Sex Show.

September - Pruning and Re-potting

                                      October - Chapter Auction of Exotic Plants                                          

 November - TBA

December - Holiday Party

Subject may change.

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Mini Show Winners

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Interested in Purchasing Hybrid Hibiscus Plants

Visit These Growers

Tried and True Hibiscus on the Web   quality plants

or

Hibiscus Harbor 

seeds and plant material

Here is Dawn Conrad-Shew with one of her award winning bloom, Amber Suzanne

See other pictures of the meeting by clicking here.

Photos by Paul Felsberg

Looking for a particular bloom or hybridizer?

This site will let you search for your favorite bloom

The Gall Midge a serious pest to hibiscus

For other hibiscus pests

These top links are off this site so hit your back button to return

Visit the American Hibiscus Society Website

Here is another AHS site with lots of pictures

 

 

Nola Reynolds and Pete Conrad

Thinking of you!

 

 

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