2010 CSSA Spring Show!

I was bowled over by the quality of last year's show... and here it comes again.

2010 CSSA Spring Show

I've got time off work and I'll be there. Who's going to join me?

Wish I could be there.

Anyone want to go asclepiad shopping for me?!

WOOT!! I should get my car on the road on the Friday getting my VIV certificate for a written off lancer in the floods, so If that goes smooth I can give it a test run on the Saturday. so count me to make an appearance Sat. be nice see some of my fav members and vendors there cos it's about the only chance I'll get.

And WD I rekons I can try help you on the asclepiad front. I'll PM you as im not a fan of making plugs on the forum

-A

Okay, so A' will be there. Kanje, Lewis, Crypto... are you guys about? Who else is going to join us?

I'm pretty sure Kanje is on a road trip up north at present.

Wish I could join you, bit far for me.

Yeh I will be there seling a few plants as usual. I have some nice rarities this year, Arios,turbs,astros an a fair range of lithops, other mesembs and haws. Looking forward to seeing some of the forum crew there...

Well, I spent today at the show, wandering around in a perpetual state of awe and putting a bit of a dent in my wallet. The show still has another day to run, so if you haven't gone already, try and do so ASAP.

Pictures to come...

Here's a few pics... more to come. Please note that these are in no particular order, and there's no titles as I honestly have no clue about the ID on about half of them. Also, please accept my apologies for the quality (or rather lack thereof). I'm a gardener, not a photographer...

Good stuff Lachy, I only made a flying visit this year myself, caught up with Crypto briefly and met Amnesia for the first time ! Rather than start another thread I'll just add couple of pics here...

Some general views of the display area -






The show bench, pretty light on I though, but then I'm not into the whole showing thing anyway, so who am I to complain ! ;-)
Oh and nice hat !!




A couple of plants -

Hoodia of some type



Nice Euphorbia greenwayii



And one of the two sales rooms. The crowd down the back is at Crypto's bench, he seemed to be doing well and had some lovely little rare gems !

Some more pics:

Some sales areas... everyone had a different approach for displaying their plants. There was an incredible variety for sale.











Plants were also available bare-rooted and as cuttings. I saw some fantastic Pachycereus and Pilosocereus cuttings that would have made excellent feature plants in a garden. At the other end of the scale were tiny cuttings that could be picked up for small change.

A wide variety of books were also available, including some bargains available second-hand, a good way to pick up long out of print material.

Some more display plants...

And some more...

Thank you so much for the amazing photos!
Great plants - so big and so tenderly cared about - it is really a pleasure to see that you have exhibitions of cacti

We will look forward to view the same photoreport about the Spring Show 2011!

thanks for the pics! wish i had been there...