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Sunshine Coast Bromeliad Society Inc.

Newsletter

No. 6/16 November-December-2016

Correspondence/Enquiries to:

The Secretary,


54 Elkhorn Street,

Kuluin, 4558.

Www.scbs.org.au

The Sunshine Coast Bromeliad Society Inc.

Founded 1999

Affiliated with Bromeliad Society International

Office Bearers 2016

President Nigel Thomson 5485 3515 [email protected]

Vice President: Cheryl Basic 54728827 [email protected]

Secretary: Carol Stewart 5445 3488 [email protected] Treasurer: Ralf Schenk 0403193068 [email protected]

Membership Secretary: Ralf Schenk 0403193068 [email protected]

Committee: Len Waite

Ron Murray

Steve Flood

Life Members: Grace Goode OAM

Paulsen (decd)

Librarians: Kendall Ross

Col Wildermuth

Popular Choice: Nigel Thomson, Steve Flood Uldis Miezis

Plant Sales: Ralf Schenk, Carol Stewart Bruce Parker

Catering: Rostered Raffle's: Gaye Cook Kendall Ross,

Safety Officer: Ron Murray

Newsletter Editor: Ralf Schenk

Club Website: scbs.org.au

Conference Website: sunnybroms.com

Web Master: Peter Cook

Monthly meetings are held at the Millwell Road Commu-

nity Centre, 11 Millwell Road (East) Maroochydore.

(Behind the Plaza Shopping Centre.

Meeting preparation starts prior to 1.30pm with proceed-

ings beginning at 1.40pm .

Afternoon tea is available and members should

bring their own cup. Raffle tickets can be purchased for

$1.00 each; proceeds from the raffle help offset

the clubs meeting expenses.

Contents:

1 Office Bearers

2 Meeting Programme

3 Presidents Report-Sunny Broms

4. Popular Choice September

5. Popular Choice Sreptember

6 Popular Choice October

7. Popular Choice October

8. Popular Choice October

9. Bunnings Sausage Sizzle 12th November

10. Coming Events, Time for Humour

Front Cover: Till. streptophylla Back Cover: October General Meeting

Message from the editor Newsletter: Ralf Schenk

Articles appearing in this Newsletter are for information only and are not necessarily endorsed by the committee or the


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Meeting Programme 2016

Format for the General Meeting is:

1. Set up Popular Choice

2. Opening and intro by President

3. Bromeliads in general

4. Tea Break and Plant sales

5. Popular Choice Results

6. Speakers Presentation

7. Raffle and Conclusion

Date Topic Presenter

November 19th Christmas Break Up -Millwell Rd Hall

Sausage Sizzle, Monster Raffle Committee

December Christmas vacation

January 21st General Meeting-Millwell Rd Hall

Guzmania's Nigel Thomson

Sausage Sizzle

February 18th General Meeting-Millwell Rd Hall

Neoregelias Committee

March 18th Hall Unavailable

Garden Meeting at Cheryl Basic’s

1560 Yandina Coolum Rd, Yandina

Sausage Sizzle Members

April 15th Easter—Meeting Cancelled

May 20th General Meeting -Millwell Rd

Cryptanthus & Prickly Plants Committee

June 17th Garden Meeting

John Byth John Byth

July 15th General Meeting—Millwell Rd

Tillandsias (Mounting) Gary May

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President’s Report

Another month has past us bye or should I say year as our up coming meeting will be

our Christmas breakup.

Since our last Newsletter publication we had Becky Trevor as a guest speaker in September.

Giving us an insight on her introduction to Bromeliads to her

current role as Manager of the “Olive Branch”.

A photo presentation of the Nursery highlighting the

expanse of assorted and special Bromeliads.

As the “Olive Branch” will be one of many selling at the Sunny

Broms conference with what our members have seen a number will be eager to attend the conference to be amongst the first to

purchase some of the new releases that will be available.

Many thanks to Becky for a very informative and delightful

presentation.

Olive Trevor who we haven’t seen for some time was kind

enough to talk us through some of the Bromeliads on the dis-

play table.

Keep an eye out on upcoming events , you will notice that the in March the Hall is unavailable and former president Cheryl Basic has offered to have a garden meeting at her place.

A special thank you to the BBQ team for a very successful fund raiser, regretfully I was unable

to attend and help out. We have been allocated another sausage sizzle on Friday 16th Decem-

ber. Some extra help will be required so if you are up to it please contact Carol.

As always looking forward to our meeting this month.

On behalf of President Nigel

SUNNY BROMS

Have you had a chance lately to get onto

the conference web site sunnybroms.com

Keep informed of up to date information re-garding registrations, bus trips, special guest speakers, accommodation, plant sales and more.

Haven’t registered yet? Then talk to Peter

Cook at our meeting on Saturday.

Meeting Attendance

Sep Oct

Members 46 42 Visitors 1 1 Apologies 5 11

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Popular Choice September 2016

NEOREGELIA

Inferno (10 Votes)

Sue Murray

First

Voodoo x Barbarian No30 (6 Votes)

Greg Jones

Third

Bushfire (9 Votes)

Sue Murray

Second

OTHER GENERA

First

Till. streptophylla (13 Votes)

Sue Murray

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Popular Choice September 2016

OTHER GENERA

Bill. Cloud Nine (7 Votes)

Cheryl Basic

Second

Third

Acanthostachy strobilacea (3 Votes)

Sue Murray

Sue Murray

Smug Grub (12 Votes)

First (12 Votes)

PATTERN LEAF VRIESA

Sue Murray

Alan Phythian Hybrid

Second (7 Votes)

Hieroglyphica x Red Chestnut F1

Third (5 Votes)

Greg Jones

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Popular Choice October 2016

OTHER GENERA

Tectorum ( 12 Votes)

Stan Walkley

Second & First

Aech. ornata (3 Votes)

Stuart Cheyne

Third

Vr. simplex (12 Votes)

Hermann Vandermeer

First

Guz. Firedragon (9 Votes)

Michael Richards

Second

FLOWERING GUZMANIA & VRIESA

Vrieslandia Marichelle (4 Votes )

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PATTERN LEAF VRIESEA

Vr. Hieroglyphica x Red Chestnut F1

Greg Jones

First (15 Votes)

Top Left

Vr. Gultz Hybrid

Sue Murray

Second (4 Votes)

Top Right

Vr. Tasman Hybrid

Sue Murray

Third (3 Votes)

Left

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NEOREGELIA

Neo. Little Rositta

Betty Jorgensen

First (11 Votes)

Top Left

Neo. Bobby Dazzler

Fay Paku

Second (6 Votes)

Top Right

Neo. Morado

Stuart Cheyne

Third (5 Votes)

Left

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Bunnings Maroochydore Sausage Sizzle

Peter and Gaye setting up on a Saturday morn-

ing, head down bums up sorting out the order

of drinks for sale, whilst Cheryl (hidden) laying

out the table for the slice of bread and serviettes

On which the sausages are placed. Ralf in the meantime is well underway with the

first packet of sausages on the BBQ plate as

well as the first lot of pre cooked onions being

heated up. Carol is kept busy unloaded her car

with all the necessary goodies for the days ac-

tivity.

Based on about 4 trays of sausages

per hour we were lagging behind our

previous best.

Little did we realise that once the

tempo heated up it was full on for the rest of the day. Closer to the end of

the day it was realised we were going

the run out of both sausages and

bread on not just one occasion but

two. Yes a total of 61 trays of sau-

sages were all sold, as were all the

drinks. With record sales it was down

to counting the days takings and some

well earned refreshments.

Saturday 12th November 2016

More boxes then you can

poke a stick at but all have

their place.

After our last very suc-

cessful event Carol as-sured us she had pur-

chased an equivalent of

supplies in order would

not run out. Let the sales

being. After a surprising

ly slow start we were

sceptical about the out

come for the day.

Coming Events

SCBS - Christmas Breakup Millwell Road Community Centre

Sat. 19th November

***********

The Bromeliad Society of Qld. Sat 26th Nov. 8am-4pm

Sun. 27th Nov. 9am-3pm

Table Tennis Centre

86 Green Tce. Windsor

***********

SCBS-General Meeting

Millwell Road Community Centre

Sat 21st January

Happy New Year - Sausage Sizzle

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Sat. 18th February

***********


Hall Unavailable Sat. 18th March

Garden Meeting-Cheryl Basic’s

1560 Yandina Coolum Road

Yandina

***********


Sat 15th April

Meeting Cancelled-Easter Saturday

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Sat. 20th May ***********


Hall Unavailable

Garden Meeting –John Byth

Woodford

Sat. June 17th

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Sat. July 15th

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Time for some Humour

A father passing by his son's bedroom was as-

tonished to see the bed was nicely made and

everything was picked up. Then, he saw an en-

velope, propped up prominently on the pillow. It

was addressed, 'Dad'. With the worst premoni-tion, he opened the envelope and read the letter

with trembling hands:

"Dear Dad,

It is with great regret and sorrow that I'm writing

you. I had to elope with my new girlfriend, be-

cause I wanted to avoid a scene with you and

mom.

I've found real passion with Stacy. She is so

nice, but I knew you would not approve of her

because of all her piercings, tattoos, her tight

motorcycle clothes, and because she is so much older than I am.

But it's not only the passion, Dad. She's preg-

nant. Stacy said that we will be very happy. She

owns a trailer in the woods, and has a stack of

firewood for the whole winter. We share a

dream of having many more children.

Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that mari-

juana doesn't really hurt anyone. We'll be grow-

ing it for ourselves and trading it with the other

people in the commune for all the cocaine and ecstasy we want.

In the meantime, we'll pray that science will find

a cure for AIDS so that Stacy can get better. She

sure deserves it!

Don't worry Dad, I'm 15 and I know how to take

care of myself. Someday, I'm sure we'll be back

to visit so you can get to know your many

grandchildren.

With love, your son,

Joshua.

P.S. Dad, none of the above is true. I'm over

at Jason's house. I just wanted to remind you

that there are worse things in life than the

school report that's on the kitchen table. Call

when it is safe for me to come home!"

October General Meeting 15-10-2016

Lou Randall

Anil Ghodke in action

Another Good Plant selection for the Raffle

A very decisive description of

Racinaea multiflora var.

Tomensis (from Ecuador)

A very informative presentation by

Anil Ghodke on tissue culture kept

the audience silent as he explained

in detail the procedure and the ster-

ilization process by way of a power point display.

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