Discover the Bromeliad Society of San Francisco

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• 40+ Plant vendors selling unusual species of succulents & cacti you can’t buy at stores.
• Hand-made pottery created for succulent plants
• Plant Hotel (store plants while you shop)
• Exceptional specimens on display in the “Leaf, Stem, Base” plant show
• Expert growing advice, live planting demonstrations.
• Habitat & conservation info.
• For complete information visient Society’s monthly programs and further our mission of education, conservation, and propagation

Scott started growing bromeliads in the early 1970’s as a kid growing up on the coast of Texas not too far from Houston. After successfully propagating a seemingly endless number of offsets from gifted Billbergia pyramidalis, Scott cajoled his father and a neighbor to take him to get more plants at the meetings of the Bromeliad Society Houston. Scott, along with his dad Joe and neighbor Bob Caswell started attending meetings in the mid-70’s when Scott was around 11 or 12 when John Anderson and Don Beadle would come from Corpus Christi to give fantastic slideshow presentations, often timed to classical music. (This is more than 10 years before Beadle would register his famous Billbergia ‘Hallelujah’.) Scott earned his landscape architecture degree from A & M and moved to San Diego in 1985. Scott has worked as a landscape architect – planning, designing and overseeing construction of schools, parks, streetscapes and retail centers. A particular focus for many years was the design of workplaces for technology, biotech and the life sciences. Scott had a 20-employee landscape architecture practice in San Diego before selling it and taking a position at the City Planning Department in San Diego as a Parks Planner. Scott and Jim have traveled through many states of Mexico, all of the Central American countries, and most of the countries in South America. Cloud forest ecosystems are a choice destination. Scott grows most of the popular bromeliad genera, with interests in Alcantarea, mesic Tillandsias, and especially the foliage Vrieseas. 

This talk will present several special Bromeliad Environments that I have had the pleasure to encounter over my many trips into Ecuador. The relationship of the bromeliad species present in those environments will be presented and discussed, along with why those environments are so rich in Bromeliad species.

Jerry became interested in Bromeliads 57 years ago when his brother gave him one for Christmas. His interest has increased over the years and he is currently a director of the East Region, and a past president of The Bromeliad Society International. He has made numerous collecting trips into Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Peru and has discovered a number of new species of Bromeliads. Tillandsia raackii and Gregbrownia raackii are named after him. Jerry and his wife, Joanne, have an extensive collection of hard to find and uncommon Bromeliads at their home in Pataskala, Ohio.

Dylan Zoller is in charge of the HIghland Bromeliad Collection at the Sherman Library & Garden located in Corona Del Mar, California.

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