Author: Melenie Yuen

WE’RE HOLDING IN-PERSON MEETINGS AGAIN! 

Meeting Date: Tuesday, March 21, 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:   Sharon Smith of Thompson Hanson Nursuries

Sharon is a Custom Designer for Thompson Hanson Nurseries where she has worked for 15 years providing a variety of designs to numerous clients. Prior to that, she had her own small landscaping company. She has loved flowers her whole life and reads about gardening all the time. Sharon’s other passion is music. She is also a lifelong musician who had several bands before joining her husband’s band, The Buzzy Smith Ensemble and has sung at numerous events around town since the 1970s.

Sharon will be discussing how she puts an arrangement together and invites everyone to bring a pot or other decorative container to get ideas and suggestions on how to design an arrangement that works well with it. Plants are welcome too!

Program: Custom Pot Design

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 March 16, 2023 at 7:30pm.  It will be a Zoom meeting.
Deadline for the bulletin:  April 3, 2023

WE’RE HOLDING IN-PERSON MEETINGS AGAIN! 

Meeting Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2022 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:  Our very own, John Schmidt

My first experience with bromeliads was a sample pack from Tropiflora. The plants were kept indoors and did not survive for long. Some time later, I met Jack Wilson on a pond tour in Wichita, Ks. We became friends and he gifted me several neo. hybrids. That’s when the spark became a flame. Fast forward to 2007 when Gale and I moved to Spring. I joined the BSH in 2011. My interest once again focused on Tillandsias and I probably have 150 or more species and cultivars in my collection. I am on my second stint as a board member and have done Show and Tell the for several years. All in all, the friends made in BSH are my greatest treasure.

Program: The Dirty Little Secrets of Bromeliads

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
• Adjournment
• Raffle

Next Scheduled Board Meeting:  Thursday March 23, 2023 at 7:30pm.  It will be a Zoom meeting.
Deadline for the January bulletin:  March 3, 2023

  HAPPY NEW YEAR!! WE’RE HOLDING IN-PERSON MEETINGS AGAIN! 

Meeting Date: Tuesday, January 17, 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: Tim Pylate director of the Armand Bayou Nature Center
Program: Tim’s topic will be on “Why Urban green spaces are of critical importance to all of us”

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
• Adjournment

There will be a raffle this meeting.

Next Scheduled Board Meeting:  Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 7:30pm.  It will be a Zoom meeting.
Deadline for the February bulletin:  February 5, 2023