WE’RE HOLDING IN-PERSON MEETINGS AGAIN!
Meeting Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2023 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
(ZOOM login/social time at 6:30 p.m.)
Meeting Place: In person at the Metropolitan Multi-Service Center
located at 1475 West Gray St., Houston, TX 77019 and on ZOOM.
Program Presenter: Paul Wingert
Paul Wingert has lived just about his whole life in the metropolitan Detroit area. Born into a musical family, he took up the ‘cello at an early age. He won an audition with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1979 and enjoyed a 41-year career, retiring in 2020. Shadowing his musical career has been an intense interest in gardening which features a compulsive fascination with bromeliads. His first encounter with bromeliads took place in 1975 while he was a student at the University of Michigan. He became a charter member of the SE Michigan Bromeliad Society in 1976, and served as president of the group from 1983-1994, and currently since 2017. He has also been a member of the Bromeliad Society International since 1976 and is currently on the Board of Directors representing the Eastern U.S. region. Paul built a greenhouse in 1990 which serves to limit the size of his collection. At the 2004 World Bromeliad Conference in Chicago, he was honored as the Sweepstakes Award winner. He has registered 80 of his hybrids with the BSI so far, and has a few more in the works that are just waiting for a good name! Paul has been a guest speaker at garden clubs throughout Michigan, as well as giving presentations for bromeliad societies in Chicago, New Orleans, and Sarasota. Paul is married to Karen, his wife for 43 years. They have two children, Jennifer and Andrew. The rest of the family does not seem to be similarly afflicted with the bromeliad bug.
Program: Hybridizing Bromeliads and Growing from Seed
Meeting Agenda:
- Social time/login (Check your Bulletin or your Zoom invitation for more information.)
- President’s Welcome
- Announcements
- Committee reports
- Program
- “Show and Tell” with John Schmidt and Gordon Stowe
- RAFFLE! Bring a plant to share in the raffle, and buy tickets to win a plant too!
- Adjournment
Next Scheduled Board Meeting: Thursday July 20, 2023 at 7:30pm. It will be a Zoom meeting.
The May Bulletin will be late to include photos from the Annual Show.
Deadline for the bulletin: June 5, 2023
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