The San Antonio Cactus and Xerophyte Society was organized in 1977. Its mission is to promote the study, propagation and public awareness of cacti and other succulent plants.

SACXS FACTS Newsletter for the San Antonio Cactus and Xerophyte Society

Adios to the 2017 SACXS Show & Sale It was an Over-the Top Event!

I always feel a little sad when the Show & Sale ends for the year, but I am exhilarated that everything went so well. Our attendance was through-the–roof with large crowds of happy succulent-lovers �illing the Garden Center every day. We had record-breaking raf�le ticket sales, silent auction sales, and live auction sales on all 3 days. Of course, we had great-looking raf�le plants due to members who potted up cuttings at our Pot-A-Thon and then took care of the little plants until Showtime. We had many unique and desirable donations made to the Silent Auction and Live Auction by current members, past members, local nurseries, and other related businesses. My co-chairman and I were able to obtain unbelievable succulents and other items for our live auction that had the bidders going crazy. One special item, a desert collage, made by member Sage Gibson, was a high-dollar item in our Live Auction.

We had a total of 13 Educational Displays. Members made displays on topics such as Growing Succulents from Seed and How to Salvage Succulent Plants after Rot or Hail Damage. Succulent Groups were high-lighted including Hoyas, Dyckias, and Horse Cripplers. There was even a display about the Cochineal Bug!

We added some new activities to this year’s Show & Sale. Marty presented a Soil Demonstration on Friday and Saturday to help get people on the right track when replanting their purchases. We also set up a Kid Zone with succulent coloring sheets, a cactus craft activity, and a scavenger hunt. 25 children completed the scavenger hunt to earn a free raf�le plant. To help our visitors be more comfortable on those hot days, bottles of water were offered for a donation.

There were 10 vendors with an amazing variety of xerophytes, succulents, and cactus. It’s safe to say that if someone was looking for a particular plant, they were track down in the Garden Center.

Of course the Show & Sale would never have happened without the help and support of many people. Please read this list of members who volunteered to provide assistance during the Show & Sale. Notice that many of these members volunteered in more than one way.

A great big THANK YOU to Linda Draper who assisted me as Co-Show Chairman. She wrote the newsletter articles, got us an interview on Kens 5 TV, solicited items for the silent auction, went with me on our buying trips for the live auction plants, typed up our Show & Sale document, mailed out invites to last year’s attendees, donated plants to the Raf�le and Silent Auction, prepared an Educational Display, came up with great suggestions, and provided great advice among too many other details to mention.

Thanks to Mandy Bulmer who stepped in as Club Table Chair. She organized the volunteer list for the club table and made sure it ran smoothly for the entire 3 days. We can thank our great raf�le ticket sales to her and the other club table volunteers. Mandy also prepared an Educational Display and donated plants to the Raf�le & Silent Auction. She even stayed and helped with clean-up.

Thanks to Don Clark who has served as Treasurer for many years. He makes sure that our �inances are in order from the beginning to the end of the Show & Sale. I honestly don’t think I could keep all of our debits and pro�its in order without him. Don also helped with the clean-up.

Thanks to Lisa Kibler who has served as Refreshment Chair for many years. We can thank her for the wonderful lunches that are served to all vendors and volunteers every day during the Show & Sale.

THANK YOU fellow SACXS MEMBERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is a list of other members and how they helped make the Show a success!

Larry Draper: Club Table, clean-up, Silent Auction donations, helped with advertising Paul Kibler: Raf�le & Silent Auction donations, assisted vendor load-in & load-out, helped with advertising Marty Ruona: Educational Display, 2 days of Soil Demonstration, Live Auction auctioneer, Silent Auction donation Eva Ruona: Produced and prepared SACXS member badges & lanyards, Show Guide, lunch food donations Anna Marie Stern: Raf�le & Silent Auction donations, Club Table, helped with advertising Sage Gibson: Live Auction Donation of personal artwork, Club Table, helped with advertising Sydney Yarbrough: Club Table, Silent Auction donation Gerald Yarbrough: Club Table, Silent Auction donation Joey Gutierrez: Club Table, helped with advertising Sherie Gee: Club Table, Kitchen assistance Cathrine Westbrooke: Club Table, Educational Display, Clean-up Will Morrison: Club Table, helped with advertising Linda Lopez de Roman: Raf�le donations, Club Table, hourly head counts, photographer Larry Rice: Club Table, Live Auction Helper Don Snyder: Club Table, Live Auction Helper, Educational Display Judy Kugle: Club Table, Educational Display Janet McCarthy: Club Table, Raf�le donations, Kitchen assistance, helped with advertising Ernie Akers: Club Table, donated 3 boxes of cactus to Live Auction, Live Auction helper,

Educational Display, Raf�le & Silent Auction donations Manny Zamora: Live Auction helper, Educational Display, Show Guide, Clean-up Manny Zamora Jr.: Clean-up Grace Fry: Educational Display, Clean-up Bill Fry: Maintained SACXS website that helped with advertising, Clean-up Claude Townsend: Educational Display, Fiesta Medal Sales, helped with advertising, SACXS Ambassador Eula Townsend: Fiesta Medal Sales, SACXS Ambassador Alex Gonzales: Educational Display Suzanna Harrison: Kitchen assistance Barbara Wilborn: Kitchen assistance, helped with advertising David McClure: Live Auction helper, helped with advertising Yolanda Medina & her mother: Kitchen assistance, Raf�le & Silent Auction donations Lorraine Pia: Live Auction helper Phil Pia: Live Auction donations Teresa Lopez: Live Auction helper, Raf�le donations Lucile Lively: Silent Auction donations Floyd Waller: Silent and Live Auction donations Gary Daniel: Raf�le donations Lana Daniel: Raf�le donations Jimmy Black: Clean-up Larry Murphy: Helped with advertising Jack, Alice & RJ Knight: Helped set up tables I’m sure I probably have forgotten someone. It was crazy down at the Garden Center, and unless I have a volunteer form or list from one of the Sub-Chairman, I may have inadvertently left you out of my list of “Thank-You’s”. Please contact me if I did, so I can properly thank you for your assistance. I know I don’t have everyone’s name who helped with advertising so a “Thank You” to anyone who passed out or posted �lyers, posted a SACXS yard sign, used social media such as Facebook or Nextdoor to get the word out, or spread the information by word-of-mouth. To all members who volunteered: YOU ARE THE GREATEST!!!!!

If you were super busy like I was during the Show & Sale, you can check out Guide-by-Cell for information about the Educational Displays, the Vendors, and the Fiesta Medals. I hope to add a new page soon with photos from past events including the Show & Sale. Just text “sacxs” to 56512 and click on the link to go to the SACXS mobile webpage. It will be active all year long.

Until next year, Barbara Schulze, 2017 Co-Show & Sale Chairman

Show and Sale 2017 Photos

These are just a tiny sampling of all the great photos taken by Linda Lopez de Roman during the 3 day event. Be sure to check out our Facebook and Instagram pages for more photos.

Upcoming 2017 SACXS Events 05-17 Monthly Meeting Dish Gardens bring your container & plants (purchase plants at the April Show & Sale) Will be held at the home of Eva and Marty Tour the landscape with many cacti and succulents. 151 Huxley Drive, San Antonio, TX 78218 (210)863-5657 SACXS will provide soils and top dressings. If you don’t have plants, no worries, these beauties shown below will be available at $3.00 a plant.

Find us at:

Web: www.sacxs.org

Facebook: SACXS – San Antonio Cactus and Xerophyte Society

Instagram: SACXS

Tag us in your cacti and succulent photos #SACXS

Hypertufa Party

As a thank-you for the 2017 Show and Sale Volunteers and new members who signed up at the event, Linda and Larry Draper hosted a Hypertufa Pot Making Party. It was an

enjoyable Sunday afternoon spent playing in the “mud” and visiting each other. Thank you, Linda and Larry, for opening your home and thanks to the club for providing the hypertufa making supplies!

SACXS Board Members

President: Bill Fry wefry3@gmail.com First Vice-President: Marty Ruona marty@rhinamic.com Second Vice-President: Grace Fry gfry3@att.net Third Vice-President: Claude Townsend claudetownsend@att.net Recording Secretary: Lorraine Pia phone2084542960@gmail.com Publicity Secretary: Kevin Knippa kevinkjk@comic.com Treasurer: Don Clark treasurer@sacxs.org Show Co-Chairs: Barbara Schulze barbaralschulze@yahoo.com Linda Draper draperl@prodigy.net Librarian: Paul Kibler elisakibler@satx.rr.com SACXS FACTS Editor: Mandy Bulmer bulmer107@sbcglobal.net

Refreshments for May’s Meeting:

Glenn and Ann Jones Donna Kelley Robert Klebe Shannon Klette Alice Knight